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- Denies Rep--rissin ing Diplomats Were Found } . LONDON. hoy 30 the Foreign ‘ a Office denied today that British! fecret agents have located missing | diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald! MacLean. js William Ridsdale, head of th Foreign Office news department! said reports published in two Lan don newspapers this moming wer ae completely “without foundation. j The Foreign Office kept silent for: hours after the reports first ap- i. one rpe o been recaieg On Washington after frequent biushes with the police over traffic vlolations. Foreign Secretar: Morrison tc the House of Cominons there was, no evidence they took any secret! ecamen with them, but the, | government appeared concerned, lover possible betrayal of Weatern: ‘diplomatic secrets. | “The government has made no Progress reports on the search. Traced to St. Malo, The men were traced as far as , &t. Malo, France, and have been ‘identified as passengers in a taxi: which took them to Rennes, There, _ the trail went cold. - Their families recetved telegrams, from Paris and Rome, but the 4 peared before issuing the denial. , originals were not in the diplo- { Mr. Ridsdale conferred with top, mats’ handwriting. : officials for an hour before making; McLean suffered a nervous wi his comment. breakdown while serving in Carico: ae ‘He said the search for the two; and there were suggestions in Par- atories were printed in today's is- sues of the Daily Herald and they Daily Express—in other words. Britain is stl hunting for the two! officials. Stories Quote Agents. The newspaper stories quoted agents of the British secret serv- ice as saying they had located thi two diplomats who vanished withy out a trace last May 25. Mr. Ridsdale said the agent§: claimed they made no such state-| ents. ! He refused to say whether the; secret agents had made any state-. ments at all which might indicate’ ‘a new development in the Europe- wide search for the two Britons’ who were in a position to know: many of the West's top secrets. The London Daily Herald said the Foreign Office learned the whereabouts of the two after a three-month search by British | agents and Western European. police. It said MacLean had com-' municated with his American- born wife Melinda who is va- cationing with their three children on the French Riviera. : The Herald ts the newspaper of the governing Labor Party and has elose government connections. i Whereabouts Not Indicated. The Conservative Daily Graphic, in a dispatch from Paris, said the, same story was current there and, added that Mrs. MacLean had left her Riviera villas for a secluded spot in the Var Mountains, 50) miles away. Neither story gave any hint. where the men supposedly are a .. did not indicate one way or a other whether they have disa pesred behind the Iron Curtain. The two men have been t ‘gquarry jn one of the greatest man- _ #hunts of modern times since they \ disappeared May 25. \O * | \9 , Bg OCT: ~ ae i | : 195 is exactly where it was before the; liament that heavy work in the rican department brought on nother one. ere was no evidence of this, Another theory was that the tw ad gone off on a bender and wer Mr. Morrison said ' : reluctant to return and face scandal. i Pa G1R-5, ‘fF Ladd 4 ,? “f t ‘* Clegg Glavin Ni ehola\l® Rosen Traey_. Harbo Alden Belmont *- Laughlin Mohr Tele. Room Noase (7 Of, “o red Ota RB INI CBM oe te Times-Herald Wash, Wash. Wash, N.¥. Mirror Post News Star‘! N. Y¥. Compass__