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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8

101 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 99 pages OCR'd
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we WIE, FAMIC. . Ac? 4 La peen Werted for tne Macleans Nich z. the mother and ‘her sons, Fergus, ’ ¥ 9,"and Donald, 7/ and daughter, Belmont { , "Melinda, 2, Melinda was born id eed ‘ » three weeks after her father, Don: Glavin ‘qld MacLean, 38, “head of. the Harbo —_____ ‘ american’ department” of the Rosen i British foretgn office, vanished Tracy ned . bs be get et from the free world with another G , : f British diplomat on May 25, 3951: eurty S Kidnaping Feared 2) 3 Mohr : ‘The disappearance of MacLean Vinterrowd — “and Guy Burgess, 40, « specialist Tele. Room — * GENEVA, Bept. 18 | OLE. News) —Mzp. Melinda@tacLean, Ameri: can wite of w British diplomat, who \,mysteriously disappeared two “years ago—possibly behind the iron eurtain—vanished Tues- day with her three children and, police fear they may. have been’ ' in Par Eastern“affairs, presented if Scotland Yard with one of its v greatest ‘mysteries, The’ British government saya to this day St} » doesn’t know, where the." pair] - y rent or ‘why, {s°* ‘Mra. Dunbar, on’ the verge of <hysterla® after * awaiting | word “from her daughter al! day, called $m police and said, “They must have been kidnaped.” . 4 She said she went for a walk *fm the morning and, upon re! Holloman —~ Eidnaped. * : turning,‘found the house empty. } , 7 Their disappearance ‘was’ Se Bhe‘called “everybody we. know" without result,” At the time of the dlsappene ance of MacLedn and Burgess, /-1$,000 police and secret agents ; Worked on the case. They traced . the pair as far'as France, and | there the trial ended, Most British papers speculated | “that they fled behind the ron | NoT RRCORDED Curtain, Both, and especially! 19] SEP #4 i953 Burgess, were known to associate with Communists and other NDEXED-2 ™ | leftists. Burgess had been re- Seat we 7&3 : Hoped for Return A State department spokesman j said at the time the two vanished , that MacLean was a member of the committee\ which’ controled | wartime exchanges between the ‘United States and its Allies, in Geveioping the aiomic boiab. 7 ‘But Mrs:MacLedn, then: ex: pecting her third child, felt ‘cer tain to the end that her husband; would” “reappear, : -It> was only4 i } months after Melinda was born‘ i * ported np the'frantle mother at } that hope started to wane.”°* +" ‘My. MacLean, Mrs. Melinda G ' It never faded, however. She » Didar, of New York City. ‘Thef ' moved to France, in the Beau, i vallon region where her husband Yhad been reported sighted. Tren. when—hesamoney ran- out, soe) | “stayed briefly In Pariser Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror a Wash. News — 45> DELETED COPY SENT C2 Mak Roun doh 5.4) SEP BA10F pues Se EIS 234 BY LETTER JUN 22 1976 PER FOIA REQULof Arey
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