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mapner of departure and spefulation which gfve thei household - famifiar natkes. . Now the stage is seti for thelr reappearance. Officially the Foreign Office knows , / nothing of the M. and B. . “ES story, Some officials soubt whether i would be EMPIRE NEWS REPORT! Russian advantage even now FR to meation the two men, lect “UY BURGESS and Donald Maclean may show their alone produce them. faces to the world outside the Iron Curtain for the ‘ Bu’ this view is not shared first time since they deserted their Foreign Office jobs sen foreign diplomais nd@ disappeared irom Britain four years ago—all he went away Guy decause cf the thaw in the cold war. 2 has sent wg hae But by returning to this country they could expose ‘enselves to charges under the Official secfets Act, said a Foreign Office man olprday. “A charge would depend on what it. s believed the men had actually sont. Otherwise the men have committed «9 oience.” The great thaw that has aircady vrought amazing concessions by the E¥*. Communist world has now also brought «oknowledgment for the first time by hussian and British diplomats of the run- . rays’ presence behind the Iron Curtain. - Gave advice | Maclean and Burgess know nothing | o . ‘The rst was at Christmas, 1953. posted in London by a ‘courier Irom. Czechosiovakia, and the second a year Jater with & London postmark, ‘And Donald Maclean? There were no Jetters to hia wife Melinda—only £2,000 m: de pay able to her by an upknown fan jin agSwiss bank @ few mopths jatted Ma Aigl a 2 {with} j fret Is r 'peen' heard of again, r ago Mrs. Magiean Bt xbout ato... bombs, but it has long been suspected they had a a hand in advising apon Russian propaganda. ‘ he us>.ulness of these two ex-Foreign ! ice men to the Russians is considered | tglbe about over. They were small fry in | 4 ‘ne dipiomitic world. It was only their afaclean. disappeargnee. ©