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midnight Bhe case-book Harold King, mangger_ of! et ateet velopment in gen < : me. sae Enarteor me of the greatest diplomatic . mysteries of ml time read something lke this: Guy Burgess'’s letter, was iddressed to his mother, Mrs. J. ".. Bassett, wife of Lieut.-Colonel |e Bassett, at Arlington House, UHE POSTMARK in dock area Its, tmark—S.E.1—shows 1% ould Rav led by som: THE POSTMARK John Dickinson, Ltd., manufac: jurers of "Basildon Bond,” said | last night: | “None of it goes behind the; |Iron Curtain, fe export & Little to Sweden, Belgium, France, and . to troop canteens and institutions in the British zone of Germany.” | So there_is another «puzzle : How could Burgess have got anv ‘of this notepaper in Prague) where he has been Tumoured urn to Page 6, Col. e béen posted bi ie mé arriving et Waterloo Air station or bv anyone off a ship sing the wharves near London jridge or the close-by Surrey Docks. There YK known to be ® large raffic in smuggled letters brought x by seamen in ships trading to countries behind the Iron Curtain ~particularly Poland, In the. Thames orf Monday _ were three Russ:an ships—the Lakhta and the Gribojedov. from Leningrad. and’ the Ler- montov, from the Black Sea. All ents called a} an Tron Curtain | _ ——— 1 9 Hh SAN me ee) ee) —IS. HE BACK? Mian witha cargo of bacon and? whatsoever that the letter was am trom Gdyniae “ from him, It contained intimate . i to believe, however, that both men Dut none of her’ crew wai| terms familiar only 1, bis Continued from Page 1 joreUtince worked under Com shore lt 2) Ming—| mother and himself. a } shore until the next mornings) ve said he was in good health, Be Ubing 2, Of corse. Ae sant ooreieiaisees of compara | snd the Inst collection from nos | "He said fe mes nM tnother a, haUe, faker, some Mn May /tve influence and affuerc . vm, on Monday. Happy Christmas and New Year.” whew he left Britain in Moy) et: Who ae ou 1 Because of the Christma:| And from another source came crnat, thy & tee EH ont meek SE rush the envelope bore no time |confirmation, that the letter’ was ars, . then, Is me report on the | (0 vcd in the letter? BA nol Hamp—and, again because of tie|genuine. Mr. Nigel Burgess, a0 rat commuricr on trom Burgrss)one may be Mr, Jack Hewit, Christmas Tush, its exact post advertising executive and brother mother in his name from a post/plump, bespectacled ex-actor with but the Lakhts have now lefl. GUY BURGESS” The only British ship in, he , The man who hed little to los ‘iver on Monday which had re- | Page TWO ~ ing spot cannot be identified, |of the missing diplomat, sai~——ommce in the Rue du Louvre in) shor Burgess shared a flat in “The letter was signed with Paris soon after he vanished. Old Bond-sireet, W, | The: THE CONTENTS \ ¢ venient of Guy's name which It establishes almost certainly! known each other for 14 years. fe vused when rtting to my [that he is alive and well, But it Date—but no address he used when ertting 20, my | that Me, many quetions ui+/ MORE PAGES The only date on the letter is' such that it could not have been answered . “November” “It bore no address) & fOr H i wae of neat. 1p TRRST Who posted the jetter? To a mystery al vA. it hee urgess is not ack, if, ma! sbeenice al’ the copious. ed have deen written under have been brought in by & ‘rend |, TBE ecient ident Peath typical 3 sting ie | - q e ‘ough in the diplomatic i, Te ot eet ask that be| THE NOTEPAPER bag of & Communist netion Janney ie pe remembered “Affectionately t|' None -hehind Curtain’? - ling 2 The Whee Burgess a ut, Burgess aed te Keep an any hint, or mention.any country Mn e vith the student an act "Shbsiy® hers potepepet |nassed through since he left| crested Ace Channel with Colonel Basset told the Foreign Southampton by crossUhannel) Maclean instead. Colonel Bassett jomoers arrived post on the night of May 25, SIXTH : Why has Maclean not : eos 1951 written? Again.’ only be can and noted that: ‘ i . ‘oo THIRD: Where_are Maciean answer that question. ‘ Two of the pages, Gnd “the land his family? The letter did} His mother, Lady Maciean, said af i envelope | bore weemorke The Ot aan them. last cnt eae neither she nor} . 7 ft 4 . u H+ Wha! er family iv & come ‘THE SIGNATURE fir “sage Was, erent i aaase JATH 4 What are both men inieaten . —pa 3 So the Burgess-Maclean mys' ige friends. He did not name] iat. ——— The Foreign Office has reasanpadds a few more pages to its caye- 2 jem. but merely wrote“... .:you [~~ ee Poe — book, but still remains largely &—- pow: mystery. Last night his stepfatuerLignt ~ I fa lonel Bassett. said: See EP ee