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The L — that keeps - Maclean in Moscow By GEOFFREY WAKEFORD WHITEHALL yesterday de- nied a story that Donald Maciean, the former British diplomat who fed to Russia, had applied for a visa to visit Britain. Foreign Office men in London ‘explained that there were only two things, wrong, wil 1c report... THE NAMB. AND THE MAN. ‘The name of the man who ‘asked for a visa 1s D. McLean —with a capital L. He is an emigre from the Soviet- controlled Baltic States who happens to bear @ Seottish name, as many Balts do. ‘The British Embassy in Moscow » has Known about him for | weeks. but no one quite knows why he wants to come to Britain. ‘The story of the Balt and the ‘Briton came to light early Yosterday, when duty men in Whitehall were asked the truth of the report. It said that Donald Maclean. now 46, wanted to come home to see his mother, Lady Maclean, of Iverna Court, Kensington. understand that Guy Burgess, now 48, the diplomat who dis- appeared behind the Iron Cur- fain with Maclean in May 1951, has still not given up hope of coming home. But Donald Maclean has kept his own counsel. He is yory of happy in Moscow, Iam tol and would never dream Teaving. Nor would his wife, Melinda, who, with their three children, joined 1 _—— 0- Yd? 2 October ll, 1°6¢ Lovdor, Sngland (for isfo) NOT RECORDED 149 OCT 20 1960