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ee LOCAL MAILBOX. — Se LONDON CAP)-A CHRISTMAS LETTER IN THE HANDWRITING OF CUY BURGESS, BRITISH DIPLOMAT WHO VANISHED 2.1/2 YEARS AGC, WAS DELIVERED AT HIS MOTHER'S HGME TODAY. SHE SAID IT WAS THE FIRST REAL EVIDENCE THAT HER SON IS STILL ALIVE, DOHALD MACLEAN, AN 5s BURGESS AND HIS FOREIGN OFFICE COLLEAGUE AMERICAN AFFAIRS EXPERT, DISAPPEARED ON MAY bs, 1951. THERE HAS BEEN WIDE SPECULATION THAT THEY FLED TO THE EAST TO HELP THE COMMUNIST WORLD IN ITS COLD WAR AGAINST THE WEST. _ BURCESS* MOTHER, NRS.EVELYU BURGESS BASSETT, SPEAKING FROM HER AFARTNENT NEAR PICCADILLY CIRCUS, SAID SHE WAS "ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN® HER SON WROTE THE LETTER SIGNED tn HIS NAME. "IT IS A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT," SHE SAID. “IT IS THE FIRST REAL SIGN WE HAVE HAD THAT HE IS_ STILL ALIVE.* A FRIED OF MRS.BASSETT TOLD REPCRTERS IT WAS "QUITE A HAPPY LETTER" CONTAINING ORDINARY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. aD PeHeRE WAS NO INDICATICN IN IT OF WHERE GUY MAY BE," THE FRIEND DED. CONTENTS OF THE LETTER WERE NOT PUBLISHED. TRE PENNED DATE OF THE MESSAGE WAS SIMPLY "NOVEMBER." IT wAS POSTMARKED MONDAY NICHT HOWEVER, AND IN THE DOCKYARD AREA OF LONDON. | THE LAPSE GF TINE BETWEEN THE WRITING AND THE MAILING OF THE LETTER EEBGESTED THE POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS SELT IT TO A FRIEND HERE TG BE COSTED. THE FACT THAT IT WAS POSTED IN A DOCKYARD AREA ALSO SYGGESTED A POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS, IF ACTUALLY 1N AN IRON CURTAIN COUNTRY, SENT THE LETTER TO ENGLAND IN THE CARE OF A SEAMAN, WHO DROPPED IT IN A WEI116AES 12/23 - - ENCLOSHIGE Gy