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Office Memorandum + wnitep STATES GOVERNMENT to . DIRECTOR, FE @@USRRE para: Janwary 15, 1952 . . ’ BS) ero 1 SAC, FO —_ SUBJECT: DONALD D LEAN, . 4 ouy FRANCIS'd ONCY BURGESS . G-] ye ESPIONAGE - RB a3-/ The Washington Post newspaper on page five, column ona Bot ca-] date, contained the following item concerning the above captioned individuals: NN t "2 BRITISH OFFICIALS JATIZD BY MOSCOW, ENVOY SAYS id "BERLIN, Jan. 1) (UP) — A diplomat recently returned from the Soviet Union said today thet two British foreign officers > missing Since last May are being held in prison in Woscow. "This authority, requesting anonyrity, said it was almost ‘common knowledge! in the diplomatic corps in Moscow that. Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, the two Britons are in Lubiyanka jail, reserved for high priority prisoners, "Yaclean was head of the American department in the British Foreign Office and Burgess was e former secretary at the Embassy in Washington. Their disappearance was acknowledged dune 7 in London.* - For information. nen 353