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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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Found, “ays 3:
no clues to their disappearance. Co ~
The case was revived iast week: A! tadd 7
when Chicago-born Mrs, Mac- “Cl
Lean went to the Riviera for | es eee
vacation. Glavin
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British Paper, Rewea e yy
‘ LONDON (Thursday), Aug. ;
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officers _h
missing ¢ British Riplomats,
Guy Burgess and Donal/
ae) MacLean, after a three
aoe
months’ search of western
Europe, the London Daily
Herald reported today.
The newspaper. organ of the
Labor Party, said intelligence
agents informed the Foreign
Office yesterday they had traced
the movements of the two men
since they walked off a channel
steamer at a French port, May);
25, and vanished.
The newspaper said Mrs. Mac-
‘Lean, now on the French
Riviera, had received a message
from her husband, but it gav
.no further details, Mrs. Mac|
-Lean’s housekeeper, Sylvia Bett
field, said at their country hom
ipPhat she knew nothing of such
‘bh communication.
‘ard Is Noncommittal
nei deny_the
report. One. _yard_official said:
“T Bs our_provinee._It is
office affair.”
purely reigi
q_otber_ Lan
newspaper carried the story.
thie ‘two diplomats walked
down the gangplank of the chan-
nel steamer Falaise at St. Malo,
France, and vanished.
Their disappearance brought
down a storm around the head
of the Foreign Secretary in the
House of Commons and sent
Britain's Chief of Intelligence to
Washington to talk with J. Edgar
Hoover.
Many jumped to the conclu-
sion it was another case of
\defection to Communism and
‘that the two men had fled be-
jhind the Iron Curtain. But there
was no concrete evidence.
No Bodies Turned Up
i Another theory was that one
*
or both of the men might be
dead, but no bodies turned up.
A third theory was the mei
ad thrown over their caree!
s the result of a “bender.’
urgess, 40, a heavy-drinkin;
achelor, had been recalled from
‘ashington because of a series
of scrapes over fast driving.
MacLean, 38, was worried over
the expected birth of a third ;
child. —!
Tracy.
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