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oe, Political explosipn Igoms on diplomats BRANIGas VE SLIP OVE MRS MACLEAN? Departure for Russia arranged before husband vanished — By WALTER FARR and GEOFFREY WAKEFORD N RS. MELINDA MACLEAN knew that her husband was teen LY] to Moscow with Guy Burgess ; and before he left their hame in Tatsfield, Surrey, in May 1951 ‘she a to follow him to Russia with their three children. This new belief emerged last night fro evidence reaching British officials. For the UROT Ro evidence shows that Russian MVD agents ve oey ss ES helped her to bluff her way out of Britain to SWitzerland and later across the Iron Curtain. bee British authorities should have suspected this. 1 Bit they made no effort to prevent Mrs, Maclean . - , travelling to Switzerland. ‘Thelr failure to act followed) lerave errors of judgment in the | Ly Foreign Office and other de-| partments which led to the escape of Maclean and Burgess, peers and M.P.s said jlast night. Eyidence now in the hands of / British offic:als—who ave prenar ing a White Paper. to be issued this week—shows that Russian jSeret Service agents in Londba lhdd been instructed by one [pt iS ithbir Moscow chiefs, Kislytsin, lkepp in close touch with Mj Mactean RE: DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al . ESPIONAGE = R (Bufile 100-37h183) f _ DAILY MAIL é . SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 : “TONDOW,PENGLAND: ‘ eS : Opcr ony FACT MA SOE