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MIDDIZE - AGED natried cquple’ walk hand in hand. through the crowds in Red Square, Moscow. The man is heavily built and broad shouldered and looks rather like ‘Trevor Howard. His wife is..dark - haired and piumply petite. Most visitors would not give them a second glance, but they should, Indeed, nearly all Moscow's 1,000- strong Westers community look out for them when they make a rare appear- ance together, for,In a city where celebrities are few, this couple are unique. They both abhor publictty, and have already changed their address three times in their attempts to keep it Secret. They now live in @ small Mat in a barrack-like block. A caged canary chirps in the living-room, with its green sofa and armchairs, its silver-plated electric samovar, Luxuries ‘Their bedroom nas = cowdy sulle of two veneered wardrove: & dressing-table with hexagonal mirror, and a long wooden box in which when better weather comes they will store their winter blankets and feather quilts, In a Sigdow cage. two glue {And green budgerigars sharpen their beaks on cuttlefish, “this man likes pete : Pe ,,O8ee Ket a tame ixen Is apartment before he came to Russia. Their &itchen “boasts such luxuries — for “Moscow ~as Czehoslovak washing machine, & Yugoslav fioor polisher. a Rumanian vacuum cleaner These poss sessions alone show that the couple possess a Importance. “ Indeed, all the Intelligence Services of the Western world would pay any sum to interrogate them. Por SO years this man, Kim Philby. one of the most trusted agents in Britain's Secret Tntellizence Bervice, systemati- cally repald that trust by treachery, making useless Dearly every Western atlemot (0 gather information from behind the iron Curtain. The deaths of unknown aumbers of brave men are due to nim . His Ameri > born wife Melinda has ¢his dubious but unique distinction ; her life hat been interwoven " not merely with one traitor but with two, she married them both. Her Srst marriage to Donald Macclean, the Foreign Office spy, lasted nearly 27 years. Por a woman to ‘marry a taltor does not, of course, imply any stur on her own character, For her to marry two traitors could be fantastic coincidence. But in the case of Mra. Mac fean this coincidence. when considered with other factor: poses the question : @ pathetic tittle woma-, con spired against by events—or is she in face a eegply convincing deceiver herse Cast your mind back to the suminer of 1951, That was the year of the Great Spy Scandal which left Britain stunned and did im mense damage to oUr relation. ship with America, where it was felt that no secret’ was now safe in British hands. May 25 that year was as Friday. | On that day Mr, Herbert Morrison, the Foreign Secretary, tscued ‘authority for Donald Maclean. a senior Foreign Office official to be in- terrogated the following Monday about nis suspected treachery. That same evening Maclean vanished [tnt bone al Tats- field, Burrey, With him Guy Burgess, who had wari ‘him of the dangers if he stayed, Por a forta: OmMce went ‘ned not through any Government communiqué, ft was revealed by the Daily Express. Then, last. the Foreign Office admitted “that the two “absent without leave.” But newspapers in Sritain and America now aa to garner al! possible information, ‘Thus {t was learned that Mrs. Maclean had received a telegram from her husband de loving me. Donald,” Be wildered His mother, Lady Maciean, also received a telegram. It was signed “Teento,” a name by which he was known in the family and which was presum: ably used to prove the cable's authenticity. And a mysterious Mr. Robert Becker, of whom Lady Maclean hed never heard, paid £2.000 into her account through banks iterland, This repaid Money which Lady Maclean had Joaned to her son for the de- posit on bis home at Tatsfeld, ut was probably meant for. Maclean's wife and family. ‘The whole nation, already alarmed ‘that three scientists— Nunn May, Fuchs and Ponte- corvo—had given atomic secrets to Russia, was bewildered by these latest defections, It was not surprising. there- fore. that the public and the apers should be acutely interested in the, one person wha might be able to_provide . People's World DeLoach — Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan — Conrad - Felt Gale Rosen ——_ Sullivan Tove} Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) ‘The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer Examiner (Washington) x THE_SUNDAY EXPRESS _ LONDON, ENGLAND Date _January 5, 1969 _