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‘Dovid Lawrence— * me * Apternal Security Tes est. in Britain 2". Dongjld Maclean Disappeared Behind the tron Curtain, : * Witl Secret Data, and Now His Wife Has Vanished” nen ‘Wert_-about.to-pounve-ob-Msca’ 2 ponaia’ Mfblean—e” British! “ Why’ i the! whole ‘eoleode 8 his. important ’s because - joMiclal, known | smong ald Maclean served as a sec- ‘friends ss & Communist—~in Year a 'y of the British Embassy « some strange way eluded the in Washington along with an- > British security services in. other secretary, Guy Burgess, May. 1951, and disappeared be- . and the main fob of Macleen was to keep touch wi hind the Tron Curtain bearing’ tonic enerky developments jeonfidential information he .. here. He was_secretary of shad been accumulating trom’ committee’ of the gllles, in-/‘” ‘his intimate contacts with the‘. - cluding the’ British govern- ” governments of the United- ment, and was therefore ac- ~- States and Great Britain. cepted trusted as a thor-! Now his American-born wife - “ougniy teliaile person. : disappeared under circum- +” ¥ : ces equally mysterious, and When Maclean disappeared < p tpe.world ls wondering whether | and one of the reporters here - r British security service’ told former Secretary of State ‘Yell down again on whether Acheson about it, the latter is “perhaps it now will be in reported to have exclaimed: « f position to confound Its crf “My God... he “knew every- tes by exposing the whole stoly “hing! : :and revealing that perhaps |t Maclean not only “ynew ‘has known all along what wi about atomic energy matters © going on. - : when he was in America, but »: The latter theory is “one _ gt he time of his disappear. ithat naturally arises wishfully | ance he had been given charge} among those familiar with in-. of the so-called “American _telligence work. For it would desk" in the British Foreign De incredible if the British Office in London. This is the ‘security service, knowing how. desk over which flows daily importent it was to obtain ~ all the confidential messages © ,every scrap of information; from diplomatic representa-. ‘about the whereabouts of Mac- tives of Great Britain in the lean his associate, Guy United States. Naturally at - “Burgess, would fail to shadow that time there were very se- the family in Switzerland and — cret exchanges between our’. keep in touch with every one -* State Department and Great ; Who might seek to talk with~ Britain relative to plans for ‘the wife of the missing diplo-". ending the Korean war, and - mat, - ¢ there were also objections by. Certainly if the intelligence the British to the continuance vagents have been and are still . of the conflict if i involved on the job, it may be days be- extension of hostilities into” fore they will discover the Manchuria. - :Place where Messrs. Maclean Whatever the “fntormation ypand ess have been hiding. (| was thatthe British govern-/ sphere would certainly . have {} ment had from Sts close friend’ i been ° pornt n intercepting and , the United States, in-but it wor Doni in was in @ ‘shrewd rather to maintain un- a Jnterrupted surveillance unti) 24t could be determined exactly vwhere she was headed, my i nists. Thy that the as Tumors / “known as brillisnt “{ntellec-{ : pear but the F British For-- eign Office, w! was pooh-i overs: ” . in the | State Department.’ * ing” Kisus Fuchs for admi * project. ~ that they had just gone on « ‘made th ; Both Maclean and Burgess were college men and were; tuals” in literary circles, Theirs sympatiies * for” Communist / doctrine were not difficult to Poohing American concern : the Alger Hiss case and the in- filtration of other Communists didn’t seem to be Vigilant in) doing a check-up job in, the’ matter of loyalty—any more than it had been when “cltar- ion ey". Whether Mrs. Maclean has gone to see her husband vol- untarily or involuntarily, the fact remains that the oft- distributed story from some! London sources that Maclean | and Burgess had been some-" how “liquidated” doesn’t seem plausible now any more than’ the first unofficial intimation to the Arcerican atomic ent “holiday binge.” Tt will be important for the British security service to re~ by getting all the facts, maybe that’s what they nave deen doing these last few days and some day will reveal. 2 American officials are much’ concerned, because again the , subject of an exchange’ of” atomic secrets with Britain! is up for’ consideration, and), Congress is not likely to amend nalet sition to cagty. ie the Commu- -—~existing law to provide a freer @ Bt interchange if British security. tar Brest ; of. methods are believed to be lax. Investigation “here s~originally:,: :- (Berreduction Rights Reserved.) + de R. Y. NOT RECORDED establish faith In ite efficiency 19] SEP 21 1953 « Post News Star Times Compass ( yeg~ 37918 2