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va MacLean and Burgess_ | ‘Reported Near Moscow — By RENE MacCOLt fofficials so affable and pleasant! North American Newspaper Aljanre [as here in Belgrade last week.) BELGRADE, June §.—Donald! They were all smilies and readily MacLean and Guy Burgess, the found time fcr a bit of talk, a British Foreign Office afficials!smoke. and a joke. i [who disappeared from England! There is no doubt that the! lin the spring of 1951, and about! russian Diplomats are aiming, whose whereabouts the Western|in be nice—and are doing it. world has been speculating ever jpracefully, too. What it causes! since, are living “just outside one to wonder is this: Moscow. . ; Only a few weeks ago Moscow! Lam able io say this definitely;decided to come clean about! on the strength of a slatement;Bruno Pontecorvo, the British- from a highly responsibie Soviet: naturalized atomic scientist who! Source, made during the confer-ifled from Britain in 1950 ana! x ence beiween President Tite and!made his way to Russia via Fin-! the Russian “friendship” dele-jland. gation which has just ended; pontecorvo was permitted not here. , jong ago to write a dramatic Iet-! Until now, no Russian has ad- (ter to the Russian newspaper; mifled that MacLean and Bur-!Pravda revealing that he was in! Fess had soucht sanctuary on)Moscow and then. under thei ‘Lhe casetrn side of the Lron Cur-iaegis of the Soviet authorities, | tain—Ict alone gone io Moscow./he gave a mammoth press con-| iWhen I was in the USSR tast|ference and posed for photo- year, 1 asked scores of peopleigraphs. about the two missing Britith | If Pontecorve, why not Mae-| wine nba ee ee ee iaipiomats. Blank looks Were | Lean and Burgess? |the reply to my querics: nobody) jhad any information—or, if they chad, they were nat talking. iclter in Pravda sipned by the On “Special Job” two former Foreign Office diplo- Bui now a Russian—and there/™Mals. — ‘x no doubt that he is very well! Russian faces are wreathed in informed and has secess to of-|®Miles. Voices are gentle. “Niet!” - ficial sources of infarmation—|** NOwadays a nasty word with! | them and “of course’ has taken, Ye would not surprise me ifi any day now there should be a! confirms that MacLeail and Bur-|° } jkess are indeed living Bear Mos-|!4$ Place. . | leaw. “Cpe oye Py ce.) So perhaps MacLean and Bur- What are they doins§ said thej@Css Will be emerging any day, Russian: "It Is a special job.” Ioan from their “dachas” ‘subur-} What about Mrs. Melinda/b@n Villas) and the seculsion of pS MacLean, Donald's American Cee ag pecial Jobs” they have, ‘ife who suddenty fled fram Ge- ‘ “ ress confere neva late in the summer of 1953/€7C@ Which would clear ty Guite| oe ' land disappeared ih Vienne with!® Jol ‘the MacLean children? oe ————————————— “Aboul Mrs. MacLean T know nothing.” the Russian seid. “I have not seen her. I know only jabout MacLean and Burgess.” | This admission, caming after ‘four years of tight-lipped si- 'Jence on the part of Moscow over just what happened to the two "a British Foreign Office men, ties} in with all sorts of extraordinary | developments whith are affect-, -~ jng the East-West relations al-: —“most from-day-orday. Never bare 1] found Russian 3 ¢ b. a EEE RL LES EN Se PPA Sig rl tm i ee rd Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Date: io —_ —