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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7
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Forelgn office said today messages
Parls by a mysterious third per-
iCable. Proves a False‘Ste
iA Sent by Third. Party, London: "Reports;
Paper Says, They've. Fled fo Warsaw sets i
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bearing the names of two missing
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vere a
Russian“dere
munist theory and. have repute-
tlons for getting along” well with:
Ridsdale sald the nature of the
a diplomats—and aent from |Communist diplomats.’ way
son-—fall to give e single clue. as
to their present. whereabouts.
Willam Ridsdele,. head of the
Foralgn office news department,
sald three messages to relatives
heré appeared to have been com
posed by the Aanished Britons,
but were not in their handwriting,
In Paris, the newspaper France
Bolr saldfthe missing pair—Don-
ald Duart-MacLean, head of the
American departmén
itign office, and Guy Burgess, t until
irecently at. the British embassy in
Washington—may. now be in War-
saw. 7 oe
The paper sald French ariiy in-
jtelligence officers hold this theory.
jPrench police agid they did. not
‘know where the men are, but ex-
ANCE.’
they'd take uF § a lot of space weld
Ridsdale, . a
be. Bue: . aera . te . - Be ae
* “FE think T can justifibly say
:there is nothing in the telegrams
‘© indicate foul play.”
f There is fear, both. in London
jand in in Washington, that the two
imay have taken top-level defense
secrets behing the iron, curtain.
‘McClean had access to puch in-
formation,
Tost Diplomat
A Speeder. Here.
avads Cee
i “ By Atvoclated Prose’ .
"guy Burgess, one >of the two
British ‘diplomats missing in. Eu-
Tope, Was regalled: from the Brit-|"
ish embassy here after being]. -
stopped three times in. one day
an hour eae ©
qi- Virginia ‘Btale. ‘police twica. cau
‘toned. him and once hauled. him
pr beos eof plgmati¢
1 6 OCT 23 os ot
f the For-welinda Merling, « former Ameri-
_Pelied. they had Rok deft who handed jhe «messages: in,
Both’ men + apeak Burgess, 40."
|. The third time, a chauffeur: wes,
into court on Feb. 28. He was not] driving but sald he was acting ot
<! | they:
= Acrepart of the tneldents from} cayses vat
messages i Srom= Paris provides!
“ovary reason to believe that they!
did originate from the two of-
ficlals.” Nevartheless a close check
of the handwritten originals in-
dicated «neither . was _ written / by
Burgess or MaClean.”
One of the three messages waz
received early yesterday, the other
two later in the day. One was sent
to’ MaCleans’: wifa, the former
can gir]. Another went to Ma
Clean’s mother, Lady MaClean.
The third was addressed to Gur-
gess’ mother, Mrs. J. Re Bassett.
Third Person Unknown ” ae oe
“There in no ‘indication as
said Ridsdale. “I. suppose ~ yo
could assume that someone @
is involved because the measag
were not in the handwriting of
Tielther of the two.men.”
Asked if the two diplomata/ * La
were still in Paris, Ridsdale said:
«We just don't know ge
The. ‘messages from Pace er
described 4s purely personal: and!
thera -is no<iIntention. now
publish them, Ridsdale ‘said.
United .States is being kept -ad-
vised of developments in the hunt
for the men. There is no warrant
out for thelr arrest. - .
‘“MacLesn 2 foae Bl: years |
Virginia’s’ Gov Battle ad Fait
warded by the State department
‘9 Britlsh Ambassador. Sir Ollver,
* Franks, who arranged ‘with-Lon:
‘, don for Burgess’ removal, *. S is
The State department. gaya: out
this information today in response
to inquiries, “Officals sald” they
knew of no other ‘criticisms * of
Burgess’ ‘conduct. during ‘his: BArve
ite an ® second secretary, Reg
“Gov. Battle's letter sald Burgets
for speeding more, than Bo miles; himself wag caught twice driving
qnore than 80 miles"an hour,”!*«
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