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nae emer Who Was Mastermind (Continued From Page 37) given as the Hotel Central, Zurich. iss authorities could not identi- fy Mr. Becker. Probably the name was false. “Shorlly after the receipt of these bank drafts Mrs. MacLean received a letter in her husband's handwriting. It had been posted in Reigate, Surrey on Aug. 5, 1951, and was of an affectionate, personal na- ture as from husband to wife, It gave no clue as to Mr. MacLean's whereabouts or the reason for his disappearance but it explained that the bank drafts, which for con- venience had been sent to Mrs. Dun- bar, were intended for Mrs. Mac- Lean. - “Lady MacLean received a further Jetter from her son on Aug. 15, 1951. "There is no doubt that it was in his own handwriting. It had been posted at Herne Hill on Aug. H... “On Sept. 11, 1953, Mrs, MacLean, who was living in Geneva, left there by car with her three children. She had told her mother, who was stay- ing with her, that she had unex: pectedly come across an acquaint- ance whom she and her husband had previously known in Cairo, and that he had invited her and the children end the weck-end with him at ‘rilet, near Montreux, She stated that she would return to Geneva on Sept. 13 in time for the two elder children to attend school the fol- lowing day. “By Sept. 14 her mother, alarmed al her failure to return, reported the maiter to Her Majesty's Consul Gencial in Geneva and also by tele- phone to London. “Security officers were at once disprtched to Geneva. Swiss police were already making intensive in- quiries. On Sept. 16 Mrs.° Mac: Lean's car was found in a garage in Lausanne. She had left it on the afternoon of the 1th, saying she would return for it in a week. “Tie \garage hand who reported this add that Mrs. MacLean had taken lpr children to Lausanne's railway Station. On the same day. Sept. 164 Mrs. Dunbar reported to Geneva police the receipt of a tele- to come from her daughter. The telegram explained that Mrs. Maeann-bha4 been delayed ‘owing to unforeseen circumstances’ and asked Mrs. Dunbar to inform the schoo] authorities that the two elder children would be returning in a week. “Mrs, MacLean’s youngest child was referred to in this teiegram by’ a name known only to Mrs. Mac- Lean, her mother and other inti- mates. “The telegram had been handed in at a post office in Territet at 30:58 that morning by a woman | whose description NOT agree with that of Mrs. MacLean. ®@ The handwriting on the tele- gram form was not Mrs, Blac- Leon's and it showed foreign characteristics similar to those in the telegrams received In 1951 by Lady Maclean, Mrs. MacLean and Mrs. Bassett. “From witnesses In Switzerland and Austria, il seems clear that the Wash. Post and Times Herald arrangements for_ Mrs] MacLcan's Wash. News departure from Genev4 had been Wash. Star carefully planned. She wpnt by train from Lausanne, passinglihe Swiss. N.Y. Herald Austrian frontier and arriving at Tribune chmarzach St. Veil in the Ame can Zone of Austria at approxi-| N.Y. Mirror mately 9:15 on the morning of: Daily Worker Sept. 12. The Worker “AK porter at Schwarzach St. Veit New Leader and witnesses traveling on the train established she left the train at this point. Further evidence shows that she Was mat at the ctatinn hy an Date