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r +, dumped out, bags in hand. They ren aatel Two FRar R unay ay L t + swbold Noyes, Je. The @ck-end excursion boat, Falaise, Found irom Southhamp-| ton to Sh’ Malo in: Britteny, waa| to gail at midnight. 4 few min- utes before it cast off that Friday, a tore up to the dock. The men ipped a dock attendant, told him’ 0 buy himself a drink and started ip the gangplank.:"Hey!” shouted porter. ‘The two men had rented the car’ thet afternoon for 10 days. “Well be. back Monday,” + on ealled over his shoulder. - not back Monday. Peas all the world knows, hese British‘ diplomats thereupon’ van- ished utterly.” Within a few days, they became the objects gf a con- tinental manhunt as intensive, and Hruttiess, as any ever staged. To Reanes by Toxi” A St. Malo text driver ssid he! drove them to Rennes, where he thought they caught @ train for Patts. Since then, “MeLean end) urges have been’ reported in dozen cities, on both sides of) he fron curtain. Their zela- ‘Rus said Sc bee in_Romp—but: the, Uinesias nck iiss, he pastes legd cal od-cotne lat Fuca om Bate fone—ne enacts fugiies ware 2 9 aug Burgess. Barcelona had it they were back in France. But for alt! the tips, the combined security po-! ice of the Nestern x id gould aot find themon: : seen each. passing ‘aay, the SS S were] May 25. the,story goes. a sports car: {What about the car?) : e Ipossible suicld: ™ ? DONALD MCLEAN, “+ He Had the Ability. of _thi There seem to be Plenty of theories; ws of solid clues, none. 5+ | u ‘There are other theories. One holding the two were on & mam-~ moth drinking spree had consider- able currency——until the passage] of time pushed “H beyond” the; limits of credibility. “here _has ty ther: i ‘Ove hints that ta SBSE. a Ons, involving Sexual perversion. The two have many acaiatnt- ances in diplomatic circles in, Washington, McLean, who is 38,] served’ with the Embassy here from “1944 ‘to™1048.¢ Big, hand-| some, intensely nervous and high-| strung, he worked prodigionsly. at) job as head of the Chancery,: ‘His binges became wild seizures—~|: vor 16 o'clock at night. .Between! times, with his Ametrenrmlle, the former Melindk Marling Chicago, he entertained energei-} ically in his. homes on. Georgi town's P street, attended the usual, round of’ diplomatic parties rested up by playing tennis. He behaved himself in Wash ington, and is remembered as “ong: of the nicest fellows you sould! hope to meet.” Transferred : to! Cairo, however, as Counselor’ of: the Embassy, he seemed graduail} to fall victim to a sort of nesver ‘and moral breakdown. His frend. insist it was simply “the streck), of-overwork which did it. In ani event, he began to drmax hard. “he was tnelined,” says one] acquaintance, “to throw © bottles: around.” Finally, when he in| vaded the apartment of an absent) friend and smashed it to pteces,| he was recalled to London, ‘There,| having ‘undergone psychiatric) treatment which supposedly cured. him of his Ms, he took over the ‘The i Foreign Office's American. section, the ment of SORES, vis iU8!) Burgess, a 40-year-old bachelor.) i ; Peswas another story. Like McLean, ping-betie Doe aU ne was a Cambridge man «Eton, WEiioo), He wore the ald echoo tie aud his club stood next to Me-) Lean’s on Pall Mali, But‘ he wasn't the type. His’ service i Washingtan began fast Noverbe: and ended two months ago, whe he was recalled te London. The! reason’ for his recall—~"general unsuitability,” said ‘ the ° Foreign! Office—-was not wholly the -fact: that-he was arrested three tmes: In one day inst February for! driving 80 miles an hour in Vir-) ginia.. His associates at the Em- bassy say frankly - that. while! Burgess had undouted intelligence. they alse found him ineapabie of} applying it with any eficlency ang co-ordination. ‘ie ad toe suestmuntenl.tlogre often _stisking’ e.. his. Bes Loy) .wuEzess was - given” very alittle eet ED sa | EX81, 82 WL 6 ’ fee 3 ntins L897 7ohy 25m NOT RECORDED 4951 4 add, v lege." ae Nichola. f Rosen, &> Trae + erect Servo. é G Mobr, Tele. Room. Neuse. Gandy Fege Times-Herald Wash. Post - “___ Wash. News Wash. Star 7 C1 N.Y. Mirror R. ¥. Compass.