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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7
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é London,’ June
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[ the names of the missing men} :
1. Security agents also investigated the possibility
seign Office aides may have been, ured to Paris and kidnaped, a4
*_@ Travelled from Southampton]
” Ewas growing that they are being} England, to St. Malo, France,
F held somewhere: in}-steamship on round-trip tickets Mai
France against their will | 25 with the announced intention of -
However, the motive! returning -toEngland three days
behind the disappearance! jater. - vy +.
- forcible or ypluntary—| * @ ‘Unaccountably’ left their, suit-_
- of Donald Di MagLean,| cases aboard the ship on their ar-
. 38, head of the American} rival in France next: morning, but.
department of the Brit-} took their briefcases with them.
= Who's the ish Eoreign ‘Office, and} # Taxied to Rennes and boarded
i Sd Mant? Guy “Burgess, 40, a Far} a train for Paris. - i
: + Stern expert formerly} There the trail vanished except,
| assigned to the Washington’ Em-| for three telegrams received by
pbassy, remained a mystery. i their families on Thursday. The
One of three telegrams ostensi-
{ ; =originals of the telegrams were
ibly sent by the two missing diplo-|: found‘to be in the handwriting of)
‘mats to their families in England|.a third mans "= 70°F)
came from Rome, a foreign office +
spokesman said today. . .
| “The Rome: telegram, sent in the
;mame of Mr. Burgess, apologized
for his .“sllence" and said he was
\*embarking “on a long Mediterra-
paean holiday.” .| three days. They drove to
. ‘The original of the telegram, re-|: ampton from London in a car hired
covered in Rome, was not in Bur-.|. by Burgess for three days, and told
* Bese! handwriting, the foreign of-} ‘a garage there they would be back
. fice spokesman sald, Ui May 28..¢ 0 0 90 he ese
t At the same time, a highly-placed/ @ Their decison’ to travel to St.
French official ruled that two tele-| Malo on the northern Brittany coast
? grams sent from Paris in the name ‘indicated that their original ‘ desti-
, of the other missing diplomat was. ! nation was not ’'Paris, but* some’
not written by an Anglo-Saxon. - other ‘part of France. It-was be-
One telegram sent in Mr. Mac->¢ Jieved ‘they might have received
Lean’s’ name informed his Amer- ; some message after arriving at St.
'dean-born wife that he “had to leave) {| Malo’ that induced th Zo.
, unexpectedly,” The -other, to his paris... yy:
rf , said that he “was quite all | &°s-°"*
. g ‘right’ and. told her.” 5
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