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REPORT MADE ON) BURGESS-MACLEAN CASE Hamburg, DIE WELT, Auge 30, 1951-0 -.! (Summary) ; Amsterdam--By our-own correspondent, F,Re~-Investigations conducted by the Dutch police revealed that a German-born Cominform agent, who became the wife of.a British Communist agent, played an important part in the | disappearance of the two British diplomats--MacLean and Burgess. | Before the disappearance of the diplomats, this woman, who is also . onsidered an expert on microfilm photography, was employed as a waitress ‘ at a hotel near London. Interestingly enough, MocLean wae staying at the | seme hotel at the very same time. ©.” ,- sO . . we hye She made trips to the Netherlands in-order to see her brother, & somal i Professor from Eastern Germany, who is blacklisted by the French police for. having mistreated inmates of the former Natzwetler concentration camp in Alsace-Lorraine. This brother, who traveled with false papers, secretly but regularly came to The Hague in order to meet her there, On these , occasions the plan for the disappearance of the two British diplomats was allegedly made, ar ora . +: . ‘ aS ‘ . The woman agent, whose name has not yet.been revealed, is about 40, She was active as a Camunist in Germany long before the war, She res involved in the Neumann case and finally had to flee to Moscow in 1935, Later she went to England and acquired British citizenship by marriage, CORDED - 24 ,,, PEPER Ret _“sephet et Sie, Ag “Leg Kg oy ot wees Foreign Radio Broadcast . ; 7 : SSA RAB section : Page Date