Disappearance of Mrs Maclean. Berne or Zurich. Switzerland.
Various shots hotel where Mrs Maclean was last seen. MS door to her apartment. CU still photograph of the Maclean family. CU front page of newspapers. Various shots experts examining Maclean property...
Disappearance of Mrs Maclean. Berne or Zurich. Switzerland.
Various shots hotel where Mrs Maclean was last seen. MS door to her apartment. CU still photograph of the Maclean family. CU front page of newspapers. Various shots experts examining Maclean property including her passport. MS laboratory chemist looking through microscope at documents. CU telegram. MS a frontier post.
Various shots town. Various shots of Maclean car which was left at the garage and shots of children's toys in boot. MS's of a Swiss railway station. CU station sign. Various shots Swiss train pulling out and passing camera at speed (dusk).
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This story relates to Melinda Maclean, the wife of the famous British diplomat Donald Maclean, who transpired to be a spy for the Soviet Union.
Mrs Maclean did eventually turn up, with her children. She later joined her husband in Moscow in around 1957.
She died in New York in 2010.