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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8

101 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 99 pages OCR'd
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WIFE; “FAMIL OF ‘MISSING’ N VANISH el m TIVE Be PA 2 anaes ieee “+ ; * GENEVA, Bept. 15 ONLY. Newsi! " —Mue. MelindatacLean, Ameri- can’ wile of a British diplomat, who mysteriously disappeared two years ago—possibly behind: the iron curiain—vanishead Tact day with her three children and, police fear they may, have been! kidnaped. * Dat m eo? . Their disappearance was’ re: eee © i RSE MELINDA. MacLEAN! * ported by. the’ frantic “mother of MM . MacLean, Mrs. Mellin’ G. rder “ate efege Set rain and busiftermins aye pheen alerted for the: Macleans: {the mother and her sons, Fergus, | ; ®, and Donaid, 7, and daughter, . Melinda, 2.. Melinda’ waa born three weeks after her father, Don: ; ald MacLean, 38, head of. the ‘ american’ department” of the : Rritiah forelen office, vanished from the free world with another * British diplomat on May 25, 1954- Gt Kidmaping Feared “71 The diss ppearance of MacLean, -*and Guy Burgess, 40, « specialist (in Par Eastern” affairs, presented * Scotland Yard with “one “of ite, i greatest ‘maysteries, The’ British government says to this day it gE 80 SS Ladd Nich ig Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosea ET an ee al ay Geary Mohr Vinterrowd — + doesn’t “know, where _ the." pair} ° 4 , went, or ‘why, Wee Fo Sa ‘ Mra.-Dunbar, on the verge of " hysteria after “ awaiting | word from her daughter all day, called “fm police and said, “They must ! iy ‘ Rave been kidnaped i She said she “went for a walk | in the morning and, upon re! ‘ turning’ found the house empty. . Bhe ‘called “everybody we. know" : : Without result,” : . At the time of the’ disappear- mance of MacLedn and Burgess, -15,000 police and secret agents. ; * worked on the case. They traced . the pair as far'as France, and © there the trial ended. Most British papers specylated | j ‘ that they fled behind the iron - Curtain, Both, and especially: _ Burgess, were known to, associate | with Communists | and other ; leftists. Burgess had been re- i. Sealled from Washington. only ‘a ‘ month before they vanished. ~. fa ’ Hoped for Return * Mae A State department spokesman | said at the time the two vanished , ‘ that MacLean was a member of | ’ the committee) which’ controled | wartime exchanges between the ; United States and its Allies ; in’ j developing the atomic bomb. a ro But Mrs? MacLean, then: ex: i id 4 4 + aged ? i pecting her third child, felt ‘OCT ns tain to the, end that her husband j : would” reappear, < It: was only 4 ‘monthe after Melinda was born’ f that, “pope started to wane.” : Y It never faded, however. ‘she. ' moved to France, in the Beau-" ' yallon region where her husband phad been reported sighted. Tien, ; when-hesamoney ran- out, she ‘ stayed. -priefly in Pars) DELETED COPY SENT CLR Mok Roun th BY LETTER JUN 22 1976 “Ty. : TT eae ae NOT RFCORDED 119] SEF 21 1953. NNDEXED-2 ai Times-Heraid Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror St TG 153 w/ Tele. Room — Holloman —~ Miss Gandy —
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