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tion ywerfanding some kin' a probe. MacLean, head of the For- eign Office’s American Depart-' ment, was’ under suspicion when he fied with Burgess he- hind the Iron Curtain. Burgess, who had been attached to the British Embassy in Washing- ton, was home on leave for dis- clplining at the time. Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet dip- lomat who deserted to the West, said recently that both men had been recruited as Communist Agents in the 1930s. Nearly two years after their, disappearance, MacLean's American-born wife, Melinda, vanished from Switzerland with their three children. Their trail ‘emphasized that British secu- q arrangements hite~seso tightened progressively ‘since the Burgess-MacLean case broke. Tn the Commons debate, the; government said Harold Philby —former Foreign Office official named as “third man” in the! case—was known to have had Communist connections at one ti ime. Foreign Secretary Harold |Macmillan added, however, there was no evidence to prove’ Philby tipped off MacLean and| Burgess that they were under suspicion before they fled. Macmillan said: 4 “Although the circumstances: are explainable in terms of a tipoff, there was not necessar- ily a tipoff. A serious and pro- was traced to the Iron Curtain}tracted investigation into this border in Austria, She is be-'possiblity has been undertaken| lieved to have joined her hus-!and is proceeding even at the and, present time.” The present whereabouts of But Herbert Morrison, who Burgess and MacLean have not was Foreign Secretary in the been definitely established, al- Labor government when Bur though there have been reports gess and MacLean disappeared, Placing them in Moscow or in a grumbled: “I am inclined to} Satellite country. think they were tipped off by! . Although acknowledging that somebody and, if 50, I wish we! the government had not acted could find the somebody.” promptly, Eden warned against’: Philby was first assistant jeopardizing British liberties in ‘secretary in Washington when building up defenses against'Burgess and MacLean fied. He spies. , was security officer in the: “British justice over the cen-; British Embassy there when turies has been based on- the''Burgess was called home. Mac- principle that a man has to be} millan said Philby had been se presumed innocent until he proved guilty,” the Prime ister said. “Have we got to ab: rineiple? Perhaps, worst of all, are we to make an: exception’: for, , political -.of-! fenges? . - | Both in and Macmillar ‘riend of Burgess intheir uate days,