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as adviser fg From FREDERICK SANDS1 urich, Tuesday -T)yONALD CLEAN, now a £2,500- foreign affairs adviser to the Kemlin leaders, has been in t Berlin all through the present reign Ministers’, Conference - at neva. The highly placed Russian official who tald me this today also gave me the first Mrs Maclean Communist version of the case of the missing diplo- to East Berlin on October 24. mats,’ published in the “With Maclean were a Dally Mait on November 4. handful of officials who He toldme -thénthat | ormally work closely with during the Big Four “Sum- him. He was to remain in mit” ‘conference last summer East Berlin for the duration Maciean stayed in Bast Berlin Of the conference,” to analyse plans put forward Answering some of my fur- by the West. ther questions, the Russian, Today the Russian told who has known Maclean since me the ‘summer of 1954. said: “ Maclean rformed’ the “Perhaps later on Maclean same task for the Soviet will be atlowed to come and creign Ministry during this live in Moscpw with his family, jonference as he did last “For the |time being he ts * h lummer. sharing & qrivate villa. with “He was flown from Moscow another Statdofficia! jn a town se MELINDA KNEW AIL WHEN HUSBAND FLED: Maclean in’ Berlin agai about 400 miles east of Mos cow. All his work {s con- centrated there, and he is under strict orders not to Jeave that ‘town without .Spegial authority. “His salary would be the ‘rouble equivalent of agout £2,500." The Russian official said that Mrs. Melinda Maclean knew at the time that her husband “vanished” from England that she would Joi him in Russia. “She ‘believed that ah would be able to go to Russij almost as soon a& she wei to Switzerland. Instead, af most a year elapsed before she could do . “I don't know what accounted for the delay, but it made Mrs, Maclean Uncer- ‘tain after a time as to Whether she would really be able to join her husband, and: , at one point she thought of going to live in America in- ; stead.” . ‘This version dovetails wit what friends of Mrs, Maclea at Geneva told me the da: her disappearance becam known. ; PEI SI OR Aheg Downe kel BY LET ty ye yorg ; PER FO!A Beyinuoh Ro: Mgac-EAN CASE : (h ile 100-371283) DAILY MAIL ay pxTED NOVEMBER 16, 1955(8 pay LONDON, ENGLAND N i EEE OE