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— = oleae ve ‘the appearance of" being distraught” and: “mystified ratter—her. husband faded from sight, and band.' + ed ‘British ,government agents’ com- ; " munications purporting to be from: . MacLean. She spoke to friends of her’, ‘intention to divorce the missing bus-: . band. * BE gn aa gt L . 4 nal Bre, MacLean apparently was not. PP y , e. - kept under strict surveillance. by. the British government.* She was permit-” «ted to travel freely, even to Geneva i _ from which. point she’ started her. _ flight to join : her: _husband.: sfGuilt- by association’ apparently . fs an , unthinkable theory. from the “British” ', point, of. view,. , But, read what. Petrov’ . _ writes :, v8 * -* My: belief is that MacLean told, his wife of hié destination’ before he’ ” left, but I cannot’be sure of this, At: ; any rate, she participated fully at a: later stage in ‘(her) escape ,plan.’” - And so the one person: who. ; might: have held the key to a- a ° great mystery was permitted’ to” ‘slip through the fingers of the ve _ British security system it it des, yy b. _ Serves of fat name, =~. 3° we tle gt pea ca, ener a Oe A fy md Thee ‘case of Burgess and. ‘MacLean proves-—~zs did the Hiss incident’ and ; - others of its type in ‘America—that: , eternal ° igilance is’ essential’ to na , tional security in this-era. of a great’; ; ‘ideological | struggle. : The, difficul-.; i-ties of keeping a nation’s guard up! ‘without treading on individual rights * "and liberties, .are frightful, indeed, . “t° But the: “dangers. in lax ‘security! f must be" admitted in “the light of. ,events which - show clearly the dam-. :age that can- result. from following | ee. advice ; from: ‘the: lefts meet 9 Pa grasa a een Cree at eprmay ee Ten my ao oe rs fe aT Aemieemen