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His disappearance GYY BURGESS AND DONALD MAC: LEAN, TWO FOREIGN OFFICE DIPLOMATS. DISAPPEARED ON MAY 25, 1951. THEY WERE FOUND TO HAVE CROSSED INTO FRANCE, AND THERE THE TRAIL ENDED. There have been several indications that they ave. gone behind the lron Curtain, and this strengthened ugg when t the wife of: Maclean vanished from Geneva with her three? children in September{ last year. ‘i The only news of Bur- \ gess since has been a letter to his mother, who lives in London, Ut was ; posted in London on De« cember 21 last year, Duncan Webb Handéd over at sea by his ‘guard’ a By Duncan Webb FEW days ago I was in a motor launch in the middle of the Adriatic Sea off Venice. At the point of my revolver a man, who could speak no English, handed over to me a message that I was told had come from Guy Burgess, the missing British diplomat. It was a message that meant nothing to me as it was in a form of code. | But hen I got back to London I fwas able to pass it on fo a former close frie of urgess With results I can only| describe as sensatignall.. .— “ T-do not sce how this messag} can have been fakeff,” is friend told me. “It makes an allusion to a literdry ' project about which he and I knew and very few ath@rs could possibly have known.” IN THIS MESSAGE,. BURGESS EXPRESSED - _ “GRAVE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE. - Faced with his friend’s assurance that the message must almost certainly have come from Guy Burgess - himself, it is not for me to cast any doubts upon it or to suggest that the expedition I was led to make to get it was fraudulent. | Demands made for money For I went under a promise that I would be able to meet urgess, Who, I was told, was-about to leave one of the ussian satellite countries, and who wanted to sell his ory for money. I did not see Burgess; I got no further than a tall bloyd + ‘ an,,who Was offered to me aYone of his guards. At tifis point, demands were made on mje for money, and as I could ; / ._not_produce it, I had to Yse the’ threat of a. loaddd. / oem evolver, ‘to withdraw ir fw he deal. cee ati eine!