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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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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 —
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BY LETTER JUN 22 1976
PER FOIA REQULof Arey
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