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4 .% 4 ‘ ‘tees, _ By W. N. EWER | gue? [3 was on May 25, 1951, that Ma. Herbert | Morrisoi then Foreign Secretary, sanctioned a proposal tha Donald>Maclean_ should be questioned as a sus- pected spy. By midnight, both Maclean’ and Guy “Burgess, his fellow-spy, had fled t country..- So someone who knew about a top-secret operd- tion must have given them the tip. Who was it? This is the most dramatic revelation in the White | Paper which was published last night and called : _ Report concerning the disappearance of two former | Foreign Office offictals. WHO IS THIRD MAN? t looks almost certain that the two-had Jeatned™ within hours of the plan to question Maclean, — ut-the White Paper declares: possibility. InsuMcient evidence was obtainable to for. a definite conclusion or to warrant prosecution.” That careful phrase suggests that the authorities ha a pretty shrewd idea who the Third Man was, but coul) not. bring it home to him. Was he the same Third Man who had been suspected, along with Maclean and Burgess, ofpassing secret in- formation to the Soviet Intelligence! Service? By mid-April 1951, says the White Paper, after pro- tracted inquiries into a report.of leakages, the field of suspicion had been narrowed to two of three persons. Burgess, and Maclean were two. But-who was the third? Was he the man who warned Maclean to make a quick. get-away before he could be questioned? - HE WORKED ON COOLLY The get-2: “ Searching inquiries — {Involving individual interrogations were made into this - ay was quick Indeed. They may of course have | already sugpected,.or have had warning, that they were | under suspifion, Maclean,“as the White Paper notes, may have spotted that he was under observation while he was in London. . Or be y have noticed that he was rio longer getting top-secret | pabers to read. So they may have had thelr plans laid. aclean must have at once warned Burgess, wha was leate from the Gilice, probably by phone. . Burgess book thelr passages on the 38 Falaise, hired a car to take them to Southampton, and waited, - a ae es “9 i” ni a a a” » nF: weggeite ot “ wg pe on PE SN re nat a t™ Some? Tae « pi see Dg foci Pent et ge Page a ae ‘vation, _ fnquiries PARAGRAPH— LEVEN OF me E WHITE PAPER. Tt is now clear that in spite of the precautions taken by the authorities Maclean must have be- come aware, al some time before his disappearance, that he was under investi- gation. One explanation may be that he observed that he was no longer receiving certain types of secret papers. It is alse possible that he detected that he was under obser-~ Or he may have been warned, Searching vidual interrogations were made into this last possl~_ involving iIndi-- bility. Insufficient evidence was obtainable to form a:- definite conclusion or to warrant prosecution, ULL REPORT START ON PAGE TWO a pag nh