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i COPY “MoD NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN October 11th 1951 Behind Iron Curtain: . . MYSTERY DRAFTS = CLUE TO DIPLOMATS. qi-t By David Sentner T 9-1 Washington, Oct,11, Money drafts sent in a fictitious name,from Switzerland to relatives of Donald © Vaclean and Guy-Burgess, missing British Foreign Office “officlals, Wave convinced authorities today that the pair are Safely behind the Iron Curtain, Switzerland, listening post for Soviet agents, has been used regularly by hoscow to send funds circuitously ts points outside the Iron Curtain, Fritish diplomatic sources pointed out. Scotland Yard was pictured as having given up hope that the two top diplomats, with access to both American and British secret information as well as the British diplomatic code, would ever return to England. . DISAPPEARED IN MAY. ~ Maclean and Burgess, close friends, disappeared after setting out on a purported vacation to the continent on May 26. Maclean, 38, was chief of the Foreign Office Anerican section, at the time he left his wife was expecting a child. He was considered a brilliant career official although he had suffered a nervous breakdown last year. Burgess, 40, had been attached to the British Embassy in Washington and along with Maclean was well-posted on inter-Allied secrets which presumably included atomic information. ‘While in the Capital here Burgess was known for his heavy drinking and became involved with Virgfnia poltce over -—’ traffic violations, Both diplomats spoke Russian fluently and were considered outstanding students of the Marxian philosophy and the history of Communism. 2 2 / &