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‘f Ladd, a ~ a ows Been yecalie? Irn § Wwasnington Hl 4 . iar + after frequent brushes with the €) Lot rw Police over traffic violations. “9 Clegg 4 Denies Rep” triissing ™ys-.eruate mun, 1 1 apleee ‘ * J the House of Commons there was, . Nich ‘ Wi F d no evidence they took any secret! cho 2 Diplomats Were Found izssinee sy (ot ory see! Nicko ‘ By the Associoted Prove, } government appeared concerned, —— } ‘over possible betrayal of Western! ‘Tracy. f LONDON, Aug. 30.—The Foreign. diniomatic secrets. \ _—_ Office denied today that British, The government has made no} . Harbo_ fecret agents have located missing | . AL diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald’ PYoeress reports on the search: t den —_ _ William Ridsdale, head of th e Taen, were Craced as far a8, : Foreign Office news department); St. Malo, France, and have been # Laughlin__ said reports published in two Lond ‘dentified as passengers in « taxi : Mobr don newspapers this morning werg Which took them to Rennes, There Tele. Room completely “without foundation.” tbe tral] went cold. i ‘The Foreign Office kept silent for, ‘ Their families recetved telegrams, hours after the reports first ap- from Paris and Rome, but the eared before issuing the denial. | Originals were not in the diplo- Mr. Ridsdale conferred with top! mats’ handwriting. officials for an hour before making; | McLean suffered @ nervous his comment. | breakdown while serving in Cario; ‘He said the search for the two, and there were suggestions in Par- is exactly where it was before the; iament that heavy work in the stories were printed in today's is-) American department brought on, sues of the Daily Herald and the; gnother one. Mr. Morrison said; Daily Express—in other words.| {here was no evidence of this, Britain ts still hunting for the two! | Another theory was that the tw: officials. | iad gone off on a bender and wer Btories Quote Arents. ) Teluctant to return and face The newspaper stories quoted) scandal. azents of the British secret serv- ice as saying they had located th] two diplomats who vanished with| out a trace last May 25. j Mr, Ridsdale said the aren f claimed they made no stich state~ . ents. ' DEX - 42 fo He refused to say whether the; us ro > secret. agents had made any state- ‘ ments at all which might indicate OSes, 281281 a new development in the Europe- rs) wide search for the two Britons oe . who were in a position to know many of the West's top secrets. | The London Daily Herald said the Foreign Office learned the whereabouts of the two after a £ three-month search by British] te agents and Western European) B Mie police. It said MacLean had com-' we «CU te municated with his American- . ue born wife Melinda who {s va- cationing with their three children on the French Riviera. ; -. The Herald 1s the newspaper of L 7 SS => the governing Labor Party and has \ . ~ Pag elose government connection: wes Whereabouts Not Indicated, The Conservative Daily Graphic, in a dispatch from Paris, said the) fame story was eurvent there and, G ] R -5 : added that Mrs. MacLean had left eheb be i her Riviera villa‘ for a secluded! Wash. Post __. spot in the Var Mountains, 50} miles away. i Wash. News Neither story gave any hint, where the men supposedly are a) . «did not indicate one way or ar) Wash, Star other whether they have disa) penyed behind the. Iron Curtain. L to The two men have been 1) Lo N.¥. Mirror -Jquarry in one of the greatest man- Y _. N. Y. Compass__ Times-Herald #hunts of modern times since they ‘disappeared May 25. _