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es Ss neva late in the summer of 1953 ‘Maclean end Burgess _ ‘Reported Near Moscow {officials so affable and pleasant! North Anierican Newspaper Alijance BELGRADE, June 6.—Donald \Maclran and Guy Burgess, the British Foreign Office afficials' who disappeared from Eng)and By RENE MacCOLt ‘whose whereabouts the Western world has Been speculatins ever jpracefully, too. What it causes! since, are living “just outside Moscow.” . | Tam able io say this defimtety; on the strength of a statement; from a highly responsible Soviet souree, made during the confer-j ence between President Tito and] the Russian “friendship” dele- zation which inns just ended} here. | Until now, no Russian has ad- railed that MacLean and Bur- Fess had sousht sanctuary on; Ube caretrn side of the Lron Cur- jtain—Ict alone gone to Moscow, {When T was in the USSR last! lyear, 1 asked scores of peopic: jabout the two missing Briti 1 tiplomats. Blank looks were} the reply to my querics; nobody] thad any information—or, if they had, they were not talking On “Special Job” Bui now a Russian—and there i no doubt that he is very well! informed and has access to of-| ficial sources of infarmation—| confirms that MacLeaif and Bur- ifess are indeed living bear Mos- leaw. “(pre Foye Pcie a | What are they doin, said the! Russian: “It is a special job.” What bout Mrs. Melindal SS aectzan. Donald's American vife who suddenly fled from Ge- jand disappeared in Vienna with, ‘the MacLean children? “About Mrs. MacLean I know nothing.” the Russian said. “I have not scen her. I know only about MacLean and Burgess.” This admission, coming after four years of tight-lipped si- "Yence on the part of Moscow over just what happened to the two British Foreign Office men, ties! in the spring of 1951, and about! Russian Diplomats are aiming as here in Belgrade last weet They were all smiles and readily found time for a bit of talk, a; smoke. and a joke. Hy There is no doubt that the to be nice—and are doing it. one to wonder is this: Only a few weeks ago Moscow! decided to come clean about! Bruno Pontecorvo, the British- naturalized atomic ntist who fled trom Brltain in 1950 and} made his way to Russia via Fin- land. i Pontecoivo was permitted not long aco to write a dramatic let! ter to the Russian newspaper) Pravda revealing that he was in! Moscow and then. under the! aegis of the Soviet authori: he gave a mammoth press con ference and posed for photo- graphs. If Pontecorvo, why no! Mac- Lean and Burgess? 4 Xt would not surprise me if! any day now there should be a! Ictter in Pravda signed by the; two former Foreign Office diplo- mats. Russian faces are wreathed smiles. Voices are gentle. is nowadays a nasty word with them and “of course” has taken) its place. So perhaps MacLean and Bur- ess will be emerging any day now from their “dachas” (subur- ban villas) and the seculsion of those “special jobs” they have give a OSCOW Press confer-: ence which would clear ap-guite a lol —— ————————_—_— in with all sorts of extraordinary developments which are affect- -- ing the East-West relations al ——~“most from=day-ordivy. Never hare I found Russian q> NITOLOSURE, Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y, Herald Tribune N.Y. Micror Dat