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3s Lonpon CAP) -A CHRISTMAS LETTER IN THE HARDWRITING oF Guy BURGESS, BRITISH DIPLONAT WHO VANISHED 2 1/2 YEARS AGO, WAS DELIVERED AT HIS MOTHER'S HONE TODAY. SHE SAID IT was THE Fingt REAL EVIDENCE THAT HER SON IS sTirt ALIVE, BURGESS AND HIS FOREIGN OFFICE COLLFAGUE DONALD NACLEAN, an ANERICAN AFFAIRS EXPERT DISAPPEARED ON MAY Bs, 1951. THERE’ yas BEEN WIDE SPECLLATION THAT THEY FLED TO THE EAST TO HELP THE COMMUNIST WORLD ITS COLD wAR AGAINST THE WEST, _ BURGESS* MOTHER NRS.EVELY1) BURGESS BASSETT,,. SPEAKING FROM HER APARTMENT NEAR Pictaplity CIRCUS, SaID SHE WAS "ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN® HER SON WROTE THE LETTER SIGNED ty HIS NANE. - "IT IS A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT " SHE SAID. "IT Is THE FIRST REAL SICN WE HAVE KAD THAT HE IS STILL Auivece A FRIED OF MRS. BASSETT TOLD REPORTERS IT WAS "QUITE A HAPPY LETTER" CONTAINING ORDINARY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS, a ERHERE WAS Ko INDICATIGN IN IT OF WHERE GUY MAY BE," THE FRIEND DED. CONTENTS oF THE LETTER WERE NoT PUBLISHED, THE PENNED DATE OF THE KESSAGE was SIMPLY *NOVENBER.® IT WAS POSTMARKED MONDAY NIGHT, HOWEVER, AND IN THE DOCKYARD AREA OF LONDON, . THE LAPSE OF TINE BETWEEW THE WRITING AND THE NAILING OF THE LETTER j BEeGESTED HE POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS SENT IT To A FRIEWD HERE To BE i COSTED. . ' THE FACT THAT IT WAS POSTED IN A DOCKYARD AREA ALSO SYGGESTED A i POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS, IF ACTUALLY IN AN IRON CURTAIN COUNTRY, SENT | iE C mAde ate ENGLAND IN THE CARE OF a SEANAN, WHO DROPPED IT IN A \ LocaL Maite : WELLIGAES 12/23 = - i ENCLOSHIRE