◆ SpookStack

Sdiabaicod trea | spots for propagandists and writers Q can make the Communist linc we plausible, and for men who know the officials, the workings and the policy secrets of the United States Govern- ment. In Britain's two diplomats, ance they were in hand, Russia could have many of the qualities she wanted. Both held jobs that gave access to important secrets. Both were well-cdu- cated, able writers. Both held knowkxlge magazine News, published in Engli? and aimed directly at i} e American an British public. Its p:zes now show Knowledge of Western ways and U.S. idiom familiar only to p-ople who grew up with the English language and have real knnwledge of the United States. After Busgess and Maclean disap- peared. U.S. psychological-warfare ex- pests in Korea noticed a change in Com- munist propaganda leaflets that are showered ow American Loops there. The +» « DID T LEAD TO COMMUNIST HEADQUARTERS IN PRAGUE? West that is priceless whew translated into “cold war” tenus. time of the mysterious Might and Maclean, tenns of the Treaty were being negrtiated. to know about #. A truce move in Korea was shaping up. Russia know whether truce bait a Western bite. Russia was leaKlets once were crude; sow they are “clever, with convincingly slanted ap- peaks. Trails of Communism left by the two men can be followed closely from the beginning. They had known each other more than 20 years, from a time when both were left-wingers at Cam- tween them, knew most of the answers. Communist line that South —This.was a time, too, when the Krem- Koreans had been aggressors, sont biased. Tin was-lennching its slick propaganda anti-American dispatches from Washing. w: and Held strong opifons “against the postwar’ U.S. sourch for Comnntist agents. In the middle 1930s, before Burgess joined the Foreign Office, a Sriend re- ported that he professed being a Com- tmunist agent and tried, without success to recrvit the friend as another ag Maclean talked as if he favored only the Communist factions fighting for the Spanish Loyalists. He wanted an end in Korea regardless of Western ves, plainly stated” a beliel Britain should give up such possess: as Hong Kong and Malaya, which are coveted by Communists, and held strong opinions favoring Alger Hiss. Maclean violently denounced Whittaker Chambers, as two-faced, and even knocked down one of his friends for defending Cham- bers. . Just a few wecks before the flight, Maclean, too, told a friend he wus 2 Communist agent. . . Warning. Finally they were being caught up with, It was May 25, 1951. in London when the word came. Burgess was arranging a week-crul trip to France with another friend, He rented a car and packed some clothes. Then. at 5:30 in the afternoon, he te- cvived a long, mysterious telephone call, " Maclean celebrated his birthday Uat last day in London with a Jong lunch at excellent foreign restaurants in the Sohe, While Burgess was getting the telephone cajl, Maclean caught a train to his con try home in Kent. not far from where Winston Churchill lives. In the night, Burgess arrived at Mac- bean’s home, was introduced to Mrs. Maclean under an assumed name. Bur- yess and Maclean left in the rented cur, alter conferring privately. From there, the trail Jeads to mystery, A look at the map on page 23 shows tlh made they now are believed to have taken across France to Rome after some devious dodging into the Channel Islands, and frgen Rome across the Iron Curtain. Underground agents aided their flight. Mexsages to their families. written hy somcone else and filed in Paris and Rome by mysterious strangers, left « false scent. Last summer, a strange four-Rgure deposit, appeared in the accounts of Maclean's family in a Swiss bank. where deposits can he made by code number without revealing the depositor’s tame. The money was refused by the Mackcoans. It now is regarded by inany es a Soviet efurt to pay for Maclean's services. ‘The case still is very much alive. bu vestigations still are going on. Diplomats behind the Iron Curtain peer uf faces. looking for Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. They are sure ight place 40 look és behind the Curtain. <——*