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err “prvtmmeMELINDA KNEW ATL WHEN HUSBAND. FLEDerm Maclean in’ Berlin agai as adviser [gay 2.2555 cow. All his work is con-~ centrated there, and he is under strict. orders not to leave that town without *.°S. From FREDERICK SANDS: 7 spegial authority, ot an urich, Tuesday +: vais salary, would be the _. ‘ , s rouble § equivalen ‘ou : mre et ne orelgn affairs adviser The Russian official said to the Kemlin leaders, has been in’ t Berlin all through the present reign Ministers’: Conference - at neva. aa : him in Russia. The highly placed Russian officia] who " Mrs. Maclean “She ‘believed that sh ‘old me this today also gave me the first * Would be able to go to Russi Communist version of the almost as soon 85 she we that Mrs. Melinda Maclean knew at the time that her husband “vanished” from England that she would jo - to Switzerland. Instead, al mats of pale ae diplo e most a year elapsed before she Dally Mail on November 4. He told“me' -thén- that during the Big Four “Sum- mit” conference jast summer Maclean stayed in Bast Berlin analyse plans put forward by the West. . Today the Russian told me: “ Maclean performed the same task for the Soviet Oreign Ministry during this onference as he did last ummer, ‘ “ He was flown from Moscow to East Berlin on October 24. “With Maclean were a handful of officials who normally work closely with . him. He was to remain in East Berlin for the duration | Of the conference,” Answering some of my fur-| ther questions, the Russian, who has known Maclean since the summer of 1954. said : “Perhaps later on Maclean ‘will be allowed ta come and hive in Moscow with his family. - “For the ltime being he ts ° sharing a @rivate villa with another Statqofficial in a town . could do so. “I don't know ” what _accounted for the delay, but it made Mrs. Maclean uncer- ‘tain after a time as to .Whether she would really be able to Join her husband, and- , at one point she thought of ‘ -going to lve in America in- ; stone.” : This version dovetails wit what friends of Mrs, Maclea at Geneva told me the da ‘her disappearance becam known. PEDO Scie a a Kiac Dorekef PER FOIA Kevittol, 7 noe gt ( " (hi ile 100-37h183) . OS DAILY MAIL Ny ee | | q NOVEMBER 16, 1955(\8 payie so eh Oa ce 5 LONDON, ENGLAND \ “eye BR REO ENTE +