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" END PAGE THREE PAGE THREE | a ae | STATIONED IN PARIS SQM NINETEEN THIRTYEIGHT AND THIRTYNINE. | NEXT TIME mppeiihie Earp OF MACLEAN WAS IN NINETEEN FORTYSEVEN WHEN LATTER ATTACHED BRITISH EMBASSY, WASHINGTON. MMMM SAID HE SAW MACLEAN ONCE IN THE US IN NINETEEN FORTYEIGHT, AT PLAZA HOTEL, NYC. MACLEAN WITH HIS WIFE, LOBBY OF HOTEL, AND TOLD SQNQWMMy THAT HE AND WIFE WERE GOING TO CAIRO, EGYPT FOR NEW ASSIGNMENT, dg SAID HE HEARD MACLEAN HAD NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN CATRO AND WAS DRINKING TOO ae asians IN_AN INCIDENT WHICH saeM@@RMM DESCRIBES AS MACLEAN BEING IN ALTER- MUCH. eiMMMP ALSO HEARD THAT WHILE IN CAIRO, MACLEAN BECAME INVOLVED CATION WITH SOME EGYPTIANS Ab AND WAS RECALLED TO ENGLAND FOR JTHISe I reece aged 50 ATTEMPTED TO STRAIGHTEN DONALD OUT WHEN LATTER RETURNED TO ENGLAND AND THAT THEY PLACED HIM IN AMERICAN DEPARTMENT, BRITISH FOREIGN SERVICE, WHICH OFFICE, MMSMMBRMWMSAID, DID NOT HANDLE THE CONFIDENTIAL WORK PERTAINING TO AMERICA AND ENGLAND. QM SAID HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF MACLEAN, HAVING ANY COMMUNIST SYMPATHIES OR ANY PRO SOVIET VIEWS AND HE COULD NOT IMAGINE MACLEAN POSSIBLY BEING SoV- INTELLECTUAL TYPE WHICH THE BRITISH SOMETIMES CALL THE "BLOOMSBURY".