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. Mr. Tolson____. vi Mr. Boardman Mr, Nichols . a Mr. Belmony . Mr. Glavin . . Mr. Harho Mr. Rasen Mr, Towra A Mr... Trae, Mr. Mohr .. ‘| Mr. Winterrowd_ TRAIL WITH THE EXPRESS The snapshot | ‘Maclean’ left behind him | xx Donald Maclean and Guy B . fice experts, disappeared together in May 1951 by the simple | method of catching a cross-Channel steamer. So started the most amazing hunt of our time, traced and explained in this slarlling new series. : ITHIN a few hours of the publication by the Daily Express f the news that two British diplomats had disappeared the ‘ouse of Coinmons heard the sensational report confirmed by the then"Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. Eharacteristieally, the Dally Express and its reporter were snubbed— as if in some way they had erred by doing their duty. ‘The Government spokesman ignored the obvious fact that by trying to hold such vital information secret the authorities had made jt easier for the two fleeing men, and those behind them, to carry out their escape plan. The French police were the first to point this out to me. I spent the after- noon with one of France’s leading investigators. “ Confidentially,” he said to mé, “do you really think the Britlsh want two Foreign oS y find these two men?” I could hardly understand the question, te “This puzzles me,” said the French detective. “First, why did they dela { fips hoe a : informing us for three . . - — ! eritical days—ample time BEN | to organise a hiding-place NOT im oe . and an atr-flight from 19] MAR SL 1954 France ? +: “Second, why did they om: . . . 7 ee en rine tal information—photograo! | ahd background—which H ways regarded as routine i : DELETED COPY rT OR Mae Neunbet /00- 3 741% 3 "Daily Express" BY LETTER Sui 22 y =) tendon, 1229-5, PER FOIA or ouesy - Re: Guy Burgess, et al . J Espionage > ZO APR1 1954 eg BUSLaa = ro rs ae e “* « Ne Png oa oe an oi aah