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Mr. Tolson____. Mr. Bosrdman._ Mr, Nicholaccs Mr. Belmon Mr. Glavin_ Mr. Harbo |. Mr. Rosen... Mr, Tew. FOLLOW’ THE | TRAIL WITH i) str. Mone oo ; Mr. Winterrowd_ THE EXPRESS Tele. Room... Mr. Hollomec..... ‘Miss Gandy. aaa A. TE Be eh eee ne eee ee The snapshot’ , ‘Maclean’ left behind him) **. sy Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two Foreign Office | experts, disappeared togelher in May 1951 by the sunple | method of catching a cross-Channel steamer. So started the most amazing hunt of our time, traced and explained in this slariling new series. a ~ITHIN a few hours of the publication by the Daily Express :of the news that two British diplomats had disappeared the House of Coimmons heard the sensational report confirmed by the then Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. " Pharacteristieally, the Dally Express and its reporter were snubbed— ag if in some way they had erred by dolng their duty. The Government spokesman (gnered the obvious fact that by trying to neid such vital information secret the authorities had made it easier for the two fleeing men, and those behind them, to carry out thelr escape plan. - The French police were the first to point this out-to me, I spent the alter toon with one of France's leading investigators. " * Confidentially,” he said tome, “do you really think the Britlsh want Se) | find these two men? * T could hardly understand the question, fe me j “This puzzles me,” said the French detective. “First, why did they dela { fii ftoa a informing us for three a ~ ee eee . oritica: ays—ample me Terran to organise a hiding-place Not a 2.0 ED land an air-flight from 491 BAR SL 1954 ; France ? a Meaaie why did they om . . : or ormation-—-photogran 7 z | and background-—w hich J Re em ed * plways regarded as routine | . De: — of x at ry of / | DELETED C20 6" CR Mtoe Dewabet /00- 37778 9 "Daily Express" BY LETTER JUN 22 en) london, 12=29-5hy, PER FOI Srouesy IG we: Guy Burgess et al - : Espionage = a 4 ] ¢ SU"RICAN ELOUASSY x * Loapoa, weguasy © 0 APR1 1954 co ARB nom ae - ; i. 7 owe A eee meh _— a Ne ES “iret ae ea