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Show Inside Soviet Russia, a Chicago- - born woman is training her students With Melinda as his guiding genius, he put all thoughts of England out of his mind and Russified b6th himself and his children. Melinda, too, needed an outlet for her energy. Run by an American The destiny of Donald and Melin-d- a MacLean has been different. They are not the attractive, couple they were in the West. The MacLean I remembered from several meetings in Washington was a slim, confident man with craggy Scottish good looks and a . quick, cool brain. Today he is fat from starchy food and puffy from alcohol, while Melinda is gray-haire- d and dowdy. Nevertheless, they are two mysterious influences in Russia. a servant Communists began J.0 years ago, that of her husband three years earlier. In the late 1940s, Mac-Lea- n was promoted from the British Embassy in Washington, to become the head of the American desk in the Foreign Office in London, a high diplomatic post. His wife was born Melinda Marling in Chicago on July 25, 1916, and grew up in Evanston, 111. She was a firsfcgeneration Melinda's NEW life as ling having been born in England and brought to America as a child. When Donald MacLean disappeared with Guy Burgess in the spring of 1951, Melinda remained in England with two children, Fergus and Donald, and a third on the way; For a year there was no clue to the whereabouts of the two diplomats, but experts believed they were in Russia. Two years passed, and Soviet authorities still denied the diplomats were there. Melinda, now the mother of a third child, a daughter, filed for divorce. Her friends and relatives believed she would remain in England after the divorce or return to the United States. Then, after receiving a mysterious message in the spring of 1954, Melinda flew to Switzerland with her children and disappeared, too, behind a curtain of secrecy. Two years later the Soviets finally permitted Burgess and MacLean to appear at a press conference. ' Burgess, who was holding down a minor post in the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow, was a bloated wreck. His teeth had been knocked out by stilyagi (Russian delinquents) to whom he had made homosexual advances. In some ways, MacLean was in even worse condition. He was teaching English in a dreary town and hitting the bottle dangerously. Melinda must have realized there was no going backrso she took her husband in hand and got him to cut down on his drinking. Within two years he was editor of International Affairs, a Soviet monthly. Today he is head of .the English desk in the Foreign Office, with full access to n publications, a car, and a large apartment. He also helps top officials with speeches and dreams up propaganda slogansThe slogan, "fBetter Red than dead," is believed to have originated with MacLean. . 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Her pretty face had become drawn and hard. Finally, her big break tame. The essence of spy training is attention to detail, since the slightest error can mean capture. It is Melinda's job to see that every detail is right. She travels daily to a house decorated in American style. There she changes out of her shapeless Russian clothes into an American dress, with nylon stockings and shoes with stiletto heels. Nothing "alien" is permitted. The coffee and cigarettes are American. The drinks are and cocktails. The students read American publications. Melinda watches: accents carefully, eliminating the long British "a," which comes more naturally to the Russian tongue in such words as "laugh" and "dance." She keeps up with new American trends and slang. She teaches students to eat .Scotch-on-the-roc- for espionage in the United States YOU CAN EitcloMd find $u for which jiImm wnd mm postpaid "LET'S DRAW ANIMALS" a foHowii Qvontlly $1.50 tech t j f her principal task is to teach to efface themselves : to wear clothes that are neat without, feeing too smart; to join no clubs, political or otherwise; and to avoid g periodicals. It is buying around such minutiae that the FBI is able to build the image of a spy. Melinda's salary probably is about 700 rubles ($770 a month, so the ' MacLeans have Ho mnmcial worries. But Moscow is a suffocating place DAtMROUS SCRATCHES ::: left-win- wjiere even dedicated CSmmunists gasp for free air, and the MacLeans cannot get out. They may have traveled secretly to Western Europe, but even that became too dangerous a couple of years ago when Scotland Yard announced that Burgess and MacLean would be arrested if they were found. This put them at the mercy of Interpol. 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