LONDON: Two British Foreign Office officials disappeared in Europe reportedly carrying secret documents to Moscow and the French secret police today [June 7] joined British agents in a search for them. Foreign Office announcement on the affair is expected... . Scotland Yard had only terse: `No comment` in answer to all queries .

But the Surete Nationale in Paris confirmed that they had been asl(ed by Scotland Yard to join the hunt... . ...[T]he two men had flown to Paris ostensibly on vacation. A third Government official who was to company them went to police and declared the two .

had actually headed for Moscow.

There are ... reports that the men had taken with them secret documents... . The French Government assigned counter espionage agents to the hunt, indicating that the report of stolen documents may be correct. London`s The Daily Express said the third man who informed about the pair had said they planned to go behind the Iron Curtain to `serve their idealistic purposes`. News agencies [News agencies add,] The two men ... have been suspended ... because they are `absent without leave`, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.