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AN IN GRE ATGHES NE YORK PLANE Airport Mystery of ‘Sir Sillitoe’ SECURITY TAL By Daily Mail Reporter [gFrorts were made by London Airport security police‘ last night to smuggle “the man in grey” aboard the $ o’clock Stratocruiser to New York. - eet “the man In grey” sely resembled Sir Pere Sillitoe, head of M.L5. 7 Sir Percy, who is expected in Washington for talks on Anglo- American secur. was booked in r sea , a sleeper. on Fl 509. as “Sir Billitoe” ent But at 8.30 p.m. his name an that of another passenger and crossed off the passenger list. In- qugrers were told: “Sir Sillitge is no} flying.’ | alice were dotted discréptl | abdut the tarmac. At 8.49 p. uy bla k saloon arrived via the §ir- port’s back entrance. - oY) ; Customs follow The man by the driver & out hbrriedly, showed a pass an. offacial at the foot of the airc {t's gabgway, then opened & car goor. | e passenger got out, folldwed , by a second man. They went hurriedly up into the aircraft. I'They had cut out the Customs shed. A Customs officer . followed them into the plane. The two men carried no 1URgaRE. They had been in the deserted air- craft three minutes before the other passengers and the crew arrive And, after the plane had left. BOAC's control still insisted : “Sir Sillitoe cancelled and the plane went with two empty seats.” Hoover’s Dossiers” Sent to MI From Daily Mail Reporter | WasHINGTON, Sundgy. I ESULTS of US. Federat Bureau of Investigation and ‘igence Agency officials’ inghiries into the activities of contacts of Mr. Donald Maclean and Mr. Guy Burgess during their terms as Officers of Britain's Washington Embassy have already been made available to Sir Percy Sillitoe. Secrecy about Sir Percy's visit is being enforced here. A spokesman for Mr. Edgar Hoover, chief of the FBI, told me: “Sir Perey is coming on his own initiative. We can make no comment.” . It is understood that American Government security officials have already compiled impressive dos- siers on the two missing men, Sir Percy wili confer with Mr. Hoover and with officials of the .C.1.A,—nearest American eauiva- \jent to MLL 5. ‘LA, officials also indicatedithat tHey would make known Sir: Pdrcy the strong views they hele oO present British = secari : methods, They consider th ¢ inadequate, rea)