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aan peer" BY: PER HOIA begs! Wire. MacLean -In 1953 After She Vanished LONDON, Aug. 18 .—The Amefican-born wife af vasy ished British Diplomat Donald Maclean, has sent word in a ~<wysterious letter postmarked Cairo that she and her husband are “well and happy,” the For- eign Office confirmed today. The letter was written by Mrs. Melinda MacLean, 38, to her mother, Mrs. Melinda Dunbar, who showed it to Brit- ish Foreign 4Office officials, The Foreign Cifice said the le ter was dated ictober 2$, 1953 on felay iy reledsing news of it. but declined fomment on the! am Q eeer ia Wrote Mother\ MacLean vanished May 25, 4951, with fellow Diplomat Guy aurgess and it was believed: they fled behind the Iron Cur! tain, His wife disappeared with) her three children in Switzer. Jand last September, apparent-| ty to follow her husband into! exile. Although the letter bore ani Egyptian postmark, officials: emphasized it could not be as- sumed Mrs. MacLean mailed the leiter in Cairo herself. “It could have been taken to {Cairo in a diplomatic pouch,” an official said. “There are many possiblities.” MacLean served in Cairo be- fore becoming chief af the North American section of the. Foreign Office in London. Just’ & month before he vanished, he suffered a breakdown at his! Cairo post. | Tolson Boardman * Nichols =. * Belmont Glavin Harbo Rosen Tamm Tracy Mohr Finceccowd . Tele. Room Holloman Miss Gandy E MRS, DONALD MacLEAN w+ Writes to mother, day, attributed to “informed sources,” The newspaper re- Ports apparently smoked out the Foreign Office an the latest chapter In the that First_w a of the letter ap- pea @ London press to has perplexed thé Wash, Post and Times Herald AF } aoe Sa Wash. News . ° = * Wash, Sear wy ‘ : o x * en Tribune ay ; . ¥. Mirror <1 AUG 26 195 oe NE genteel ay, re te Ce “Load ea oe mate eee Be Saget Te