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wero @iiai MACLEAN had arrived there in September, 195, he hed formed the highest opinion of MAGLEAN's intelligence and ability to quickly - gresp the many Pacters involved in cormection with the warx of . the Embassy. sro stated that he would "have tc confess" thet on ome oeccesion he went home Pron. the Ecbassy and mentioned ts his wife thet MACLEAN's physical condition while et his desk die~- patehing Embassy businese wes that of & person who hed been thoronug..f intoxicated on the previous nicht. seep stated thet he — Fhad to almost admire® MACLEAN's abllity to hold up under the work of the Embassy while having the obvious appearance of ene who was quite "icaded”. we Both ap end his wife stated that MACLEAN, while in Cairo, hed attended parties given by King FAROQUK and pointed out that it was generei knowledge that PAROUK's parties were of the most immoral type. for which FAROQUE was notorlous. They further recalled having been told thet MACLeAN, along with others of the Diplomatic Service in Cairo, hed gone on a rather wild boat party on the Nile River. They stated that for some unknown reason the boat hed gecked about three ofcsock an She THOTT DE at which time One hanlighcaolilgat ene galgea ne CTT ENE we a nate ‘ got off the boat. Re "statea taet MACLEAN, in following ale off the boat, jumped on him, presumably accidenta, and brok leg resulting in mene subsequentiy heving te leave Eeypt be cause the tee had failed bo heal . aairee oat j am — Soa we mec re ortedly - wade the statement thet MACLEAN bad married his wife because of her having become pregnant when they were in Paris. ( ) both stated that although MACLEAN drank heavily in Cairo,’ he had not assoniated, to their knowledge, with any anti-Sritish or anti-American people and in particular never attended any Soviet perties. ad ~ @ atated that MELINDA MACLEAN appeared to be os very simple peracn and ona whe conldn't cope with her duties | as the wife of a British Diplomat. She explained that Mrs. MACLEAN ~ could not keep servants, and that all she ever did in the way of | entertainment was to have large cocktail parties rather than dinner parties. She further stated that the English women in Cairo, in eriticism of MELINDA MACLEAN'ts inability to properly attend to her home, attributed it to her “American housdieeping”. -} wit th respect to MA CLEAN haying had &@ nervous breakdown in Caire, satan: 368 that he head left there in October, 199, and therefore, had no knowledge of NACLEAN's nervous breakdown ~ 133 + )3S wile