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Was this the Red ¥ reward for an H-homb? Express “statt Reporter ‘HY has Russia a ppare tid " changes her attitude towards the missing | British diplomats — Guy. Burgess and Donald Maclean ? For two-end -a-nalf years _after their disappearance there was silence. A silence broken only by Soviet denials that the two Met were in Russia. Then three months ago Maclean's wife, Mrs. Melinda Maclean, and their three children were allowed ta join him. Mrs. Maclean caught the night express, from Lausanne to Zurich ‘and Vienna on September 11 Msits PAC else Rae Sot and vanished behind Tron Curtain. me Al st weer Can mas greetings letler from Burgess to his mother's Gat at Arlington House. S.W.1 en "DAILY EXPRESS" London 12-28-53 . {" Guy “Burgess, et al Espi spinon? FAR 24 fe: the an emissary the Christ-~ _ ee eS ee ee *DIPLUMALIC’ * wae the letter posted in London. S.B.1, -out which ‘British security men are certain | was brought Curtain sourter under the | immunity of a diplomatic bag It is also believed that Burgess wrote the letter vo his motner. . whom he adored, because his - resolve weakened when he sa¥ the Macleans re-united. Why, then. dacs Russia allow aj! . this after two and a. half yeats * of silence and mystery? |; Here is one theory advanced by | _ ‘the responsible American news ° Magazine World :— i The ‘flight of Mira. Melinda , ‘Maclean to join’ her husband | was linked with the explosion | of Russia’s first hydrogen bomb | and the work done for the ° Russians by Harwell's runaway atom scientist Brung Portle- corva. A it was part of FPontecorvo’s . reward from the Russians that ‘he should be allawed to A A arrange the reunion of his old GTE hes Pere fe ehs ' friends the Maclenn family. The magazine. {n putting forward | this theory, points out that the careers of the two friends. -acientist Pontecorvo and diplomat «Maclean, bed rup strangely parallel] from their first. meeting in Paris in 1938. THE DATES That friendship grew while they were both working In America end jaler in England. Wever before has i been suqgested that rere was this _iink between fhe two Hien. Then came the September day in 1950 when Pontecorvo vanished |, with his family behind the Tron Curtain. : Next to disappear on May 35. 1951--Donald Maclean’s birth- ; (fay—were Maclean and fellow- diciomat Guy Burgess. : Then silence. And it was not until May 1952 that Mrs. Maclean that her husband was alive. trom behind the iron Curtain. ‘brought her the in by an Iron. .*Bhe pursued a learned ‘—- M DE. PGNTECORVO Old friend of Maclean. t message, end £1,000 t deposited to her credit in « Zurich bank. + 1 “Prom this moment onwerds Melinda's only purpose in life was to locate Donald, corres- nd with him and bring him ack,” gays the magazine, ' goal with j erseverance and subtlety that ; afled Allied agents. ! "She closed her house in Eng- , Jand and took up residence in © France. Then in October 1952 ¢ ahe moved to Switzerland. “She was now in constant touch ith Sovier agents. whe advised her. “She settled down in Geneva waiting, in @ childisn hope | that she might eventually meet | Donald and bring him back to | England under a false name, . “vidence shows that although she was not a Communist she did not condemn her husband's © views, but she did mot at tbat. : time want to go toa Russia. "Meanwhile. in had again, fallen prey to WARE ee er ee i DELETE? SGP? 3707 OLB. Moe, Barn td BY LETC. guy 29 Teed ANSRICAT EVEASSY PER FOIA KeQuess 1054 ne OFFICE OY THE LIAL ATIOGES iy fr . No PRCO DED 191 MAR 22 1954 PAGE Two, col, FIVE My. Tolson—— nl Wichols——— Mr. Belmont ——— | Me. Gisvin——— Mr. Harho -—— Mr. Root ooo fg. Tatita Mr. Track" Mr. Mebr ---—" Myr. Winterrews- e. Room. — ‘e Follomat—— siiss Gandy | _ an, el ail oT) “9 efi (E 2 we —) . AY é ee eee nth Set Ye rey ams eet * 2D * iP te tie - . Tp Tg fg NO age ye Ta a _ ” na j wee ee ce ag . a ene al. abe epg ag Sere ea ee we ae Pag i nT en ee en Sas eee Pa he he re Shag tO ae 4 Poin SR kt Me eg Fen es ~