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wed ng at 4 dja line Nest We rs oaty | Sermany | arisaiod | 4 © Sa ard the steamer Falalse was @ red herting. - S°'s x Lorne name of the airline official alleged to have asst oop wt x By JAMES REID, Sunday Diaspateh Crime ‘Reporter : > COTLAND. YARD Special Branch have' false trail by another route. This new information was giyen to politiciahs by.a one-time top-ranking been told how. missing diplomats ‘Guy: gess’ and’ Donald Maclean: flew out ‘of. ‘Britain ‘as V.1.P.s while accomplices laid a; jteved they went over te the British Communist ; who. recently - broke away from bis, party. y.0 7 “A senior ‘official ‘of the Labour Party’ drafted a full report last week and sent it to Commander, Leonard Burt: of the Special ‘ = Z * . : Agent ‘At The, Airport ‘This fs the'ex-Communist’s story: « : Burgess and Maclean did not leave England by cross-Channe! steamer as has been understood.) Their eparture was planned months tn advance by inter- national Communist agents who left false trails to sug~ gest that the two men had reached the Continent by way of Southampton and St. Malo—thereafter travelling to Paris. , Britain by air . They were passed through the airport as ¥.P.8, with the gonnivance of a Communist agent who © eased” their _ Beparture so that attention was not draws te them, and no record left of the fact that thay prased that way. -They‘flew to Dusseldor’. met by a Communist agent and lived for several days at Bis home to avold police attention. Afterwards they Sew again. They are said.now to be in Prague. .+ “ rege Doubles Were Used The informant safd that this method of departure hag been ‘carried out successfully on other occasions, He told Laboar Party officials that it has been made easy because of the presence of Communists and Red sympathisers at British and Continental airports. Re added that the two men country, via Southampton Burgess and Maciean, wel who travelled out of this othe uogus V,LP.8 has been given to the. Spec! ch # Maclean and Burgess, Instead, saya the Informant, the two travelled out"SY _ - x i ~ At {he girport there they were- and Bt. Malo under the guise of re doubles and that luggagé left a) BYE Tee, leo ofBce oficial, dz appe! Fo jervic tried to check: their mov ments, without Succ é & 8, though it nas always been be- Communists and may be working on their behalf behing ithe,Iron Curtain, , One theory te that they ar hetping Russia In her dipio matic dealings with the Woeet. For a tine Maciean’s American- foorn wife. Melinds, lived ay their home in Surrey, Then she went fo Switeeriand with thelr three enildren. i Mrs. Maclean and her children disappeared from Geneva last autumn and jt is thought they nave Joined Maclean and are ayene, at the wilaxe of Kladno, 15 mites from Prague. ‘This story has sot been] accepted unreservedly by, whe authorities. ghant in the uinist Pi ig being given serious thought, [World copyright reserved., Te: