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| © ‘ THIS FAMOUS INVESTIGATOR— AND AUTHOR OF ‘SPYCATCHER' —HEADS A NEW INQUPRY FOR THE JEXPRESS ‘There is nothing as yet to suggest that Burgess is behind the Iron Curtain.. OU will assume—if you believe that the diplomats Burgess and }Maclean have dis~ appeared for political reasons—that I have been called in because of my knowledge of the art of cuunter espionage. * That experience, of course, will be of Immense value to me. Every trick, every ruse 1 have Jearned in 34 years’ work will be employed In my attempt to solve this absorb- ing mystery. But I must tell you at once mat the very nature of this cnquir’—with one historic ex- cepiion—ts foreign to me. "ear-old trail ITH that one excep: tioh omy life of counier espionage has been {devoted to the prerention of disaster—the disaster that only spies and agents can bring about. In the Burgess and Maclean case I have to assume that the disaster has happened already Here-I am taking up @ trail @ veat old, Here T ve none of my former official powers. Here Iam on my own, When Twas first asked to in- vestigate the disapperrance of the two met. Thad many doubts end misgivings. Chief amon shem was the fact that the tra: T must take up is one sear old. One year cold, too. Wor then have 1 accented vaisfase ?- When my misgivings werd greatest I was given access to ‘pe findings of the Daily Exprfss investigating teams, at nomé and abroad, Twas shown’ @ mass of evidence, the product of a xear's work : photographs. the ports of handwriting exper’ names, addresses, facts that have never been disclosed, Integtion [es have studied are the impo:- tant: document pub lished on Page One of yester- day's) Express and realised tts impiitations — then you will know \that the "theorists must make new start. But \for that. letter from Burgest—withheld for a year .or eyen that he is from the friend he wanted to receive it—We would not have known of Burgess’s firm inten- tion to break away from his old life and disappear. ‘This, and other details soon to be disclosed to you, indicarcd to me that the thing was possible, The Inquiry could he undertaken, even now; and given luck—always @ necessary weapon am My armoury—there is a chance of reaching @ satis faciory conclusion, Let mie tell vou, why 1 stress the value of “luck” and hunches” in an investigation [ by Lieut.-Col. ORESTE PINTO of this kind. I have worked on my hunches before, and many spies are long Since dead because a hunch was right. A hunch HE one important Te: in _my catect of counter espionage which, like the Burgess and Mactean case. was Not the pre- disaster, was the king of a man afler the event Christiaan Lindemans # Dutchman like myself, Was a gorilla of a man. He Was so Broad you could never realise he ‘stood 6ft. 2ns. in height. All of us, and everyone in the Dutch underground, knew him as" King Kong.” I knew of him as a leader of that brave movement, He hed done wonderful work during the occupation. He had helped a lot_of people escape 10 us. Then came Arnhem, and disastor. I had a hunch, Through another agent I cap tured later [learned that, Lindemans had given the Germans all the plans \wo days before the airborne drop. Lindemans was arrested and flown to England. He confessed ; later committed suicide in § Dutch prison. Now whai do we know Jn ‘his case? What are the circum~ stances from which such & hunch might spring ? WE KNOW the men have still with Maclean’ jeft the country: but 2 am keeping @ completely open mind as fo their whereabouts. On the evidence. Lam incl jew that Donald Maclean na country behind the Iron 1 have the evidence of 1s cntma:e friends. the evidence of ins “unchanging nctes and babils, ms luxury -necding character. There is nothing to show even afier a vear’s invest:ga- tion, that he was at any time politically suspect. One word. at this stage. abuut the character of these (wo, There is evidence of physical unbalance, It is w curous thing thay trom my 34 years in the ruthless world of counter espionage. plot and counter plot. $0 per cont. of the spies and traitors 1 have met have been similarly affected. What 3s it Inat makes them spy? What is it that makes them take up this dangerous, often poorly pald. life ? T have given much thought to this. T think it must. be the agony of mind, the cops‘ant mingling of excitement and terror. the brutal and ever present sense of fear Endicss checks ND now tor the Abie Already the great pressure by the Press throughout the free worid and this newspaper has taken the leading role—has served, in one way, to add to my diffi- culties. ‘The leads J must take up, ihe people I must see, the endless checks to be made—all these things ate made harder for me from the outse! because of that incessant pressure, But we shall see... The trdil that led to Paris By DONALD SEAMAN URGESS drove south, neading for the Channel, that evening in May, one year ago. When be boarded the steamer Falaise at Southampton, he was accompanied by Donald Maclean. , Burgess had made a detour to 3 pear Wester- ham to pick bim up They arrived, h minutes to spare. Maclean had no lug- gage except a__ briefcase. Burgess loaded his two suit- cases on board, carried a black official briefcase with him. They drank at the ‘bar, but made no effort to mix with other passengers. ry dis- embarked at St. Mald at six w'clock on the morning bf May and made their why Into the port—earrying nth their briefcases * * * WHAT DID Th bO BE. Tw THAT TIME AND 11.30 A.M. ? For those five and a half hours Maclean and Burgess vanished again. At 11.20. it has been established, the two diplomats halled St. Malo taxidriver Albert Gilbert, and asked him to drive them fo Rennes in time to catch the 1.18 p.m. to Paris. Githert” covered the 45 miles’ journey Gi 98 minutes. He was pald a 500-franc tip {roughly 10s.) over and above the fare of 4.500 francs Maclean and Burgess eft] him and. walked towards [ the station. * * * Weeks later it was fearned int Paris that two men, answering + the description of the missing diplomats, had called at the ‘aech Embassy in Paris. For obvious reasons—who could questian Czech Embossy Afficiuls on the story ?—the ined unconfirmed, NAT RE: S is last. positive clue that Colonel Pinto has to take up. WHAT NOW? Colonel Pinto's progress repprts will appear only in the Daily Express WORLD COPYRIGHT: Reproduction in part or whole forbidde twit THUUUVETEUU EEUU UAUGUURO UGA UGE TTT TTT AAREQHEN(UCHUCQUCUa tHE )