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o viet weekly magazine New Times said today there are “no grounds” for the theory that missing Melinda MacLean is be- tind the Iron Curtain. This was the first Soviet men- lion of the MacLean case. Mrs. MacLean is the American- born wife of a missing British diplomat. She disappeared with her three children from her mother's home in Geneva, Swit, zerland, last month. Her husband, Donald, of the British Foreign Office's Ameri- can Department, and a fellow diplomat, Guy Burgess, disap- peared from England in June, 1951. In an artidle entitled, “Modern Sherlock Holmes in Internation- al Arena” the New Times scof- fed at Western press theories: that Mrs. MacLean’s disappear- ance was staged by the Soviets decrease United States co: lence in British security. ‘The disappearance “is i ificent in itself and without the lightest connection with DELETED ggny » > BE NETIER Siw , PUA REQUEST ‘Te - ses of Vanished MacLeans idiculed by Soviet Magazine MOSCOW, Oct. 3 (The sc psutt Union,” iT Tolson Ladd Nich Bel: Clege le 7 Glavin ‘ Harbo Rosen Tracy ____. Laughlin Mohr Pincerrowd —__ Tele. Ra, Holloman. Gandy______ Me wm. it pee Or # the magazine “But swindlers of the capital. ist press, intelligence services and diplomacy attempted to transform this ‘detective case’| into an international political epee et event.” The weekly also disclaimed{ knowledge of the whereabouts: of MacLean and Burgess. : The magazine cited a cable {t said was received from Henry Lowry, Washington correspond- ent of the London Daily Express,! asking confirmation of a report that MacLean and Burgess a editing the New Times itself. “This aroused only laugh in our office," the New Ti said, "where MacLean and Bir gess were known only, thro hysterical stories in thé Westah| 1 fet Now PecoRDED 4 meet" GES NN NIE Tons press.” 19] Uv: 16 1953 [00-3741 § 30 Times-Herald ~> Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Sear N.Y. Herald Tribune hk ” Ss " N.Y. Mirror Date: OCT 41953 it at Ron ett St