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dirs. Maclean and her chikdren Fled' In Plane; : He. % “sty JAMES REID, Sunday Diepatoh Crime: ‘Reporter a : e GCOTLAND YARD Special ‘Branch have' = been told how. missing - diplomats. Guy: | Burgess ® ‘and Donald “Maclean: flew out of. ‘Britain ‘as V.I.P.s while accomplices ‘laid ay Halse. trail by another route. : Ahi ue Be a ect i See This new information was given to [ments without se ee be politicians by. a one-time top-ranking (Hevea they went over te the (British - Communist ; who recently < worktng on inex benait Dehinis | broke away from his party. 3. > one ae re ne theory fe that they are 1 “a ft Renter ‘official, of ‘the Labour Party | matte Sealing with the watt tony | drafted a full report last week and sent if fo |oro" Sie Mena. i ered ‘ \eCommander, Leonard Burt» ot whe. Special leorme “an BurreY. Sten she net Branch, iy as a ie Seiaeriens with, ¢hels tirse oe i” Agent ‘At The, ‘Airport ‘. a . disappeared from Geneva last “This {s the’ex-Communist's story? e 2 ED ae Ae eee are i" "Bargess and Maclean did not ieave En rand by [woe BF the wb aEe oF ado, ; cross-Channel steamer as has been nears ee by Se fore vn pot “been | adeepted unreservediy by [cere Buy hee neause at the NOermany 2 Suey departure was planned months i advance by inter- “termany paational Communist agents who left false trails to sug- avefected Agest that the two men had reached the Continent by tate way of Southampton and St. Malo—thereafter travelling ‘AORETERNOR, to Paris. ~ a | Tnateas. save the informant, the nwo travelled, outs Britain by 81 . i They wine passed theough the airport as va Pus, with: the gonnivance of 8 Communist agent who S aaged ! their _ Saparture ao that attention was rat draws ft thent, 2 and ne ” record bet ef the facet that thay passed that way... : | They few to Ddsseldort.- At-(he airport there they were- nief by o Communist agent and lived for geveral days at Big ‘home ‘eo avoid police attention, Afterwards. they few bocca “They are said. now to be ly Prague. 4 mE Ba ~ Doubles Were Used 7 4° ‘The informant said that this method ‘of depacture jas been Tearried out suceéssfully “on other occasions, He Labour Party officials that ff has been made Rasy pecause He : the presence of Communists and Red aympathisers at British } Hy and Continental airports. "Be added that the twe men who traveled oub of this | y. comntry vik Bouthampton and Bi, Malo under the guise of i. Burgess and Maciean,. were doubles and that Weegee: eft Makoard the steamer Falalse was . ved hertings aS" A . “The name of the alriing official alleged to “have assisted highs VEP8 has been given to the. Special Br artim ‘Maclean and Burgess, both 4 Foreign Office officials, dis. tment io ine Communist Parey f is being given serious thought. —Wartd soppright reserved. en tl ee jo poninlg pene te a eae ‘facial eas * Lat es ee fm ats rs Ag? atic Mo naigargngacingly aohite a cate “ thigh posilion held by the infer.) ee