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\y . 1 Was this the Red reward for an H-bomb? "express Staff Reporter “HY has Russia a pp arently changed her attitude towards the missing | British diplomats “Guy. Burgess and © Donald Maclean ? For two-and-a-half years after their disappearance there was silence. A silence broken only by Soviet denials that the two men were in Russia. Then three months ago Maclean's wife, Ts. Melinda Maclean, and their three children were allowed to join him. Mrs, Maclean caught the night express. from Lausanne to Zurich and Vienna on September 11 and vanished behind Tron, Curtin. it wee: re Ane ad greetings letter — {rom Burgess to his mother's fat at Arlington’ House. S.W.1- "DAILY EXPRBSS" London 12-28-53 . Te: ouyl Burgess, et al Espio a4 war 94 OFFICE OF THE the an emissary the Christ-- _! ei ‘DIPLOMATIC’ ~ was the letter posted London, $8.1, but which British security men ere certain | was brought in by an Iron Curtain courier under the | immunity of a diplomatic bag Iv is also believed that Burgess wrote the letter ro his mother. whom he adored. because his resolve weakened when he sa¥ the Macleans re-united. Why. then. daes Russia allow all this after two and a halt yeats * of silence and mystery? i! Here {s one theory advanced by © the responsible American news ° of Mrs, Mel to join her husband | was linked with the explosion of Russia's first hydrogen bomb | and the work done for the * Russians by Harwell’s runaway atom scientist Bruno Ponte corvo. It was It tons _part of _Pontecorv’s reward from the Russians that should be allowed to ‘ grrange the reuriton of his old friends the Maclean family. ‘The magazine. in putting forward this theory, points out that the careers of the two friends. acientist Pontecorvo and diplomat Maclean, bed run strangely parallel from their first meeting in Paris in 1938. THE DATES ‘That friendship grew while whey were both working In America and jaler in England, Never 1_it_been suggested was this link Then came the September day in 1950 when Pontecorvo vanished with his family behind the Iron Curtain. Next to disappear on May 25, 1951--Donald Maclean’s birth: ; day—were Maclean and fellow- diolomat Guy Burgess. Then silence. And it was Mot until May 1952 | Mrs. Maclean learned ‘— that : that her husband was alive. trom behind the Iron Curtain brought her the DELETED OPIN BY LETC. JUN 22 te25 PER F ASST SLALY xed DE. PONTECORVO Old friend of Maciean. message, end £1,000 was deposited to het credit in w Zurich bank. * “Prom this moment onwards ‘Melinda's only purpose in life was to locate ynald, corres- pox’ with him and bring bim agazine. | goal~ with ) Paceerniee and subtlety that affled Allied agents. ‘ “she closed her house in Eng- . land and took up residence in France. Then in October 1952 ° she moved to Switzerland. “She was now in constant touch with Sovie, agents, who advised her. “She settled down in Geneva | waiting, in @ childish hope | that she might eventually meet , Donald and bring him back to | England under a false name. “Evidence shows that although she was not 8 Communist sh did not condemn her husband's views, but she did not at tb time ‘want to go to Russia. “Meanwhile in Russia Donald , bad again, falien prey to PAGE QB. Mow Barat OIA ReQuess Fi 154 SUIAL ATIOORS ANSRICAT W'S Rasps, NOt PECONED 191 MAR 22 1954 TWO, cof. FIVE ——— ay) Mr, Belmont—— Mz, Ginvin—— Mr. Harho -——~ Mr. Bo#R Mr Tata —— Me, THCY Mer. Mout Mr, Winterrow’- le. ROO "fx. Bolloman— aise Gandy qh, r ) ayy Perce! we