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Departure for Russia arranged Political explosipn igoms on diplomats RAVE SLIP OVE MRS MACLEAN? before husband vanished — By WALTER FARR and GEQFFREY WAKEFORD RS. MELINDA MACLEAN knew that her husband was fleeing to Moscow with Guy Burgess ; and before he left their hdme in Tatsfield, Surrey, in May 1951 she arra ged to follow him to Russia with their three children. This new belief emerged last night fro evidence reaching British officials. For the . evidence shows that Russian MVD agents helped her to bluff her way out of Britain to SWitzerland and later across the Iron Curtain. British authorities should have svispected this. | Br . they made no effort to prevent Mrs. Maclean - . travelling to Switzerland. Thelr failure te act followed lsrave orrors of judgme ent in the: iForejgn Office and other de-| lnartments which led to the] escape of Maclean and Burgess. peers and M.P.s sald jlast night. Evidence now in the hands of British officals—who are prenar- ing. a White Paper. to. be issued this week—shows that Fuussinn Sderet Service agents in Londpn ih d been instructed by cone jot! pir Moscow chiefs, Kisiytsin. oO} fp in. close touch with Mes | Ma clean RE: DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al” ESPIONAGE = R (Bufile 100+371183) DATLY MATL a SEPTEMBER 20, 1955. a Orie nee Ss - mimes pA es gee bee cre ee des et De te ok Lo abe et 4 Meee? ost ne . ge het ao “ wu ff ne + jee TS ete tet me et ee the Sr wa os rd = re < : ad ” Ge ~ eS a Mee * og a ae ; R Sg tn, ro v vere 5