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PAGE TWO RUSSIA FOR ¢ QUOTE IDEOLOGICAL REASONS UNQUOTE WAS A QUOTE SENSATIONAL TYPE UNQUOTE NEWSPAPER AND THAT THE NEWSPAPER HAD AS YET FAILED TO PRODUCE THE QUOTE FRIEND UNQUOTE IT REFERRED TO. MELINDA BELIEVED, THE oan ener “sTORY TO BE FALSE AND TOLD qi? SHE HAD NO REASON TC TO BELIEVE MAC LEAN WENT TO RUSSIA OR DESIRED TO GO.TO,RUSSIA. SMMMMMB STATES THE ONLY OTHER INFORMATION POSSESSED BY HIM CONCERNING THIS MATTER HE HAS RECEIVED FROM RESULAR NEWS DISPATCHES. ‘9M HAS MET MAC LEAN on SEVERAL OCCASIONS DURING MAC LEAN-S RESIDENCE IN WASHINGTON, DeC. HE STATED MAC LEAN APPEARED LEVEL HEADED AND PERSONABLE AND TO HIS KNOWLEDGE ENTERTAINED NO COMMUNIST PHILOSOPHIES DURING THE TIME HE KNEW HIM. MAC LEAN WORKED EXCEEDINGLY HARD AT HIS JOB AND APPEARED To BE CONTINUALLY UNDER PRESSURE AND GREAT STRAIN, “HICH 4QRMMBMer BELIEVED TO BE CAUSED BY THE DEMANDS OF HIS WORK FOR THE BRITISH EMBASSY AND NOT BECAUSE OF ANY INTRIGUE OR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE ENGLISH OR AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS. <Q KNEW OF NO INTEREST OR HOBBY OR CLOSE ASSOCIATES OF MAC LEAN OTHER THAN THOSE CONNECTED WITH HIS EMPLOYMENT WITH THE BRITISH EMBASSY. sels cornrEsPonDENCE w1Ty deeabisaimgQaliibilom AND MAC LEAN AFTF NINETEEN FORTY EIGHT WAS IRREGULAR AND HE POSSESSES ll NO INFORMATION CONCERNING THEIR ACTIVITIES OR ASSOCIATES IN ESYPT OR LONDON. HE STATED MAC LEAN- "S DISAPPEARANCE COULD NOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO ee mee END OF PAGE TWO ~ P Arb