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BURGESS | ROTE: ‘I SENT MORE LETTERS? ~ Express News se I Analysis Des G UYNBURGESS, the missing diplomat, wRo las =6sent = Christmgs igtters to his mother fn london for two yegrs running, wrote several letters EARLIER, it was disclosed yesterday. And NONE of these got through the Iron Curtain. Burgess, who vanished with “Donald Maclean three years and eight months ago, got his . -Girst letter through at Christ- mas 1953. Ib was posted in London. He got his second letter to his mother this last, Christmas. ‘This too was posted in London. His mother, Mrs. J. R. Bassett, said at her home in Arlington House, off Piccadilly, last mght: “In this second letter Guy says he wrote to me before Christmas 1953. I didn’t get those other tett I-don't know how many thdre were—he didn’t say. -qMy gon didn't know I'd rece his 1953 message until it was published in the newspapers.” | a@cLEAN, et al DAILY E JANUARY LONLOS , #88 GLAND HESS 2, 1955 WWRICE OF (HE LEGAL aytace. AMTRICAN EFRAL5S¥ SR SD DEFER Y MGS (Pufile 190-371263) Ne TN Ne ag SOR OEE tay IE Si eat Rly lint em “NO HINT How did Burgess get acces glish newspapers If he OscoW, BS many believe ? . Bassett said last night: “There “is nothing in the ; letter to indicate where my | son is, or What he js doing | He gave me no hint at all.” thought that Burgess. former Second Secretary at ‘Washington, and Maclean. who wa; head of the American Deoartment at the Foreign Office. may be advising Russia ‘on Western affairs. If this ig so Burgess would need to see English newspapers. Thus he could have learned that his messuge to his mother In 1953 had reached her. ‘The Soviet political police would shave known too, and apparently did mot object. But why did the earlier letters miscarry ? . Wy is significant that there 10 wora either from Mack until September 1953, pen a message reached nis wile, Melinda in Geneva asking Her to join him. - NOW, WHY? So there had been a silence enveloping the diplomats for two years and four montas. And then i— Maclean got word to his wife. Mrs. Maclean got word to her mother, Mrs. Dunbar, Burgess got word to his mother. And cgain Burgess got word to his mother. What happened in 1953 that might have changed the policy of the diplomais’ masters ? Staln died in March, And Malenkov, zucceeding him began a few months later a to in a ‘of conciliating the estern world. Burgess and Maclean, expert enced British diplomats, would obviously be of considerable value as advisers for the carry- ing out of that policy. ‘Was it because Malenkov wanted the Western world to kno that the two men. were alive’ and well and “with te Russians ~~ that the Safer MEeSSARCS were allowed to through? a] ‘would. seem the only possifie _ ‘conclusion. Aen Mri Mr. Boardnn._. Mr, Nichols... Mr. Belmont Mr. Hath. Mr. 3 Mr. Te Mr, De - Mr. Teva Mr. fn6 4 Mr. % Tele. Rem Mr. Wetman Miss Gandy pow. : Via eed NOT r 16 FEBLA. 1958 a INDEXED - 6 m4 4 a 5] tay a oe