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Le l tr Ui Where are Britain's missing diplomats? Behind the lron Cur- tain working for Stalin—that's where the evidence points. ~ The mystery is clearing after @ year and a half. The Burgess- and-Maclean case keeps picking up Soviet angies. . Both were Communists. Both knew the West's secrets. Theory now is Moscow called them in be- fore it was too late. — ‘— ~ Reported from LONDON . and WASHINGTON The mystery of Britain's two miss- ing diplomats gradually is clearing to reveal another link in the long chain of Communist espionage. Here were two men who knew many ”- in the touchy field of Far East diplomacy. Both, it now is established definitely, had been Communists. Both also had told friends, at diferent times, that they were _ Communist agents. . ‘On the basis of conclusions now being drawn by security agents, these two diplomats served Russia as reporters able ‘| i E 1 sexual tendencies, and ‘for skcohol—that et eee MISSING, DONALD MACLEAN Did Statin’s talent scouts sound the call? ae a dbassy in Cairo, a position that let him “in on deepest secrets of policy toward the Communist-threatened Middle East. Maclean disappeared on May 25, 1951. His midnight departure was kept secret until June 7, 1951, and was revealed officially only after a London newspaper learned of the flight. Ever since that time, there has been a studied effort by both British and U.S. officials to make it appear that Donald Maclean was sn unimportant really not “in the know” at all. * With Maclean went Guy Burgess. Bur- gess had been pri Se aa rly ik re ne with Ja stl ae bee the Cicke paths of deny Chinese Communism from the U.S. Careful propagenda has been used British Government, and the tacitly was upoa reports that the two had homo- 8 strong Wiking the story shifted to hints that the two had been victims of foul play, that they probably had been killed and their bodies done away with. . + Actually, security forces of two ma- tions have knowledge: that points to things far more serious than wild parties or murder. That knowledge is supple- mented by facts that have been un- covered by newspapermen. . It all points in one direction: Brit- ain’s missing diplomats, on the basis of all information that és given real erc- dence, took the underground Commu- nist railway from London along a tortu- ‘ous route to Rome, and from there to Prague behind the fron Curtain. Routes from Rome already were well |. Communist agents there had My arranged the mysterious flight Rome to Russia of Bruno Posten &@ British atomic oe. As story is ploced together, Bur- gees and Mocloan took the underground route to Communist territory for two reasons, one growing out of the other. first motivating drive was a warn- signaled from Communist agents, about to diplomats. The ll