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stated that he became acquaintec with DONALD NACLEA early in 1947, when the latter was designeted by hie government to serve as secretary to the Combined Policy Comittee. sigueQge advised that throughout 1947 and a major part of 1948, he had numcrous contacts with MACLEAN all of which were concerned with the business pertinent to the Combined Policy Committee and the Comtined Development Agency. He advised that he was never intimately acquainted with MACLEAN and that he bad mac social contact with him. He added that he had never met MACLEAN's wife and had never visited wit: MACLEAX at the latter's Lome. SaaaByp war not aware of the identity of MACLEAR's close associates in the United States during the sbove period but was of the opinion that he was well known to oekiiaiedt.:: qunenenmaaitithe «0. he stated, hac been in more frecuent with MACLUAK by virtue of their business Wj& ‘ United States Committes to the Combined Policy Committee. seoaulaihay also believed that MACLEAK had been well ac- queinted with one SAE a British citizen who during 1947 and 1946 had been employed by the British Embassy in Washington, D. C., aod had been &ssigned certsin duties relating to the production of the atomic bomb. g@QiURMP stated that ee ae since resigned his position in the British Embassy and is presently privately em- - Ployed in Rew York City. was unable to furnish gid) business Or resicence address in New York. ee ‘* advised that throughout his association with MACLEAN he had regarded him as a very capable official, a conservative, and one who Was earnest and discreet. GgONMMalsc stated that MACLEAN, during the period he served as secretary to the Combined Policy Committee, appeared to be of a nervous temperament but gay said that during that period . he attributed this temperament to the fact that MACLEAK was a hard worker and had heavy responsibllitias. Throughout his association with MACLEAN he edvised that he hac never acquired any notion that MACLEAN wae syz ) pathetic to the Soviet Union or Comnuniasn. Cg aeiiiiite expressed an opinion similiar to-dggEUR with regard to the present day value of the information that MACLEAN acquired relating to the atomic bomb during 1947 and 1948. He also stated that the information MACLEAN hac access to would not now be of amy particular value to any foreign government, @e