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NY sagepibelinan at tbo tt the nia No mtmoent of the Fore out that the American VOPartment Gi tne sor f $ wh & * : does not handle the confidential work pertainin ng to America and England. oo He remarked that MiC LEAN was a very casy~-going, intelligent, popular sort of individual, who had a little moneys He said MaC LEAN'S father had been sa very well ) respected politician in Great Britain. & anit edyised that he neve ed Ga 1OVET we Se r he that DONALD MaC LEAN entertained any Communi st symp pathies or expressed any pro-Soviet views. He said he could not imagine DONALD being cngeged in esplonage. He declared that MAC LEAN'S friends included the artist and intellectual type, which \ the British sometimes call the "Bloomsbury", & WAM hed no idea where DONALD MAC LEAN could have gone, or where he is. He expressed the opinion that Mic LEAN had "cracked up again", for he could not imagine DONALD leaving his wife, who was about to have another baby. He suggested that possibly both DONALD MAC LEAN and GUY BURGESS are crazy. However, he stated it was un- believable to him that they would "go over to the Russian Bide because they had sem too much and heard too much of ) what Russia actually is". C4 He remarked that both BURGESS and M:iC LEAN have many friends throughout Europe, which they made during their assignments with the British Foreign Office, He knew of no close contacts of DONALD M4C LEAN tin the United Stateg.e Cl