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: PoOIsON “s nr" Ladd *) “ | ' Clegg wd ee ' Glavin : @—THE WASHINGTON DATLY NEWa, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 18% ea} * “Nichols : ° Rosen — State Dept. Contfends: | Ros Harbo a Fa Fr. =A a ae Alden Se . Belmont an Leughlin i . Mobr f | _ Tele. Room a om 4 - Nease : os ; | Gandy ; ow EN g 7 DP Ord ie : " t bw Pets ae : { By "LE C. WELSON United Press Staff Correspondent _ Thé State Department sought teday to knock doyn ‘ss any ideas that a missing British diplomat knows héw TS many atomic bombs the United’ States has or the process a of making them. —" re on a . ” The diplomt is Donald S. . ay 4 MacLean, 38. He and Guy F. (i: § oi Burgess, 40, disappeared from * “ 7d their British Foreign Office jobs : ny { i 4 on May 26. B faa? The State Department concedes, ORY / —_ however, that Mr, MacLean amassed ; . P we _ a considerable amount of informa- d er, ~— , fe “on tion on the U.S. atomic energy prow A sca i 44 gram. He got this information in Mr. MacLer Mr. Burgess | a) 3947 and 1948 when he was secre¢@ ooo: a -_ tary of the Combined Policy Com-| &@nization’ get good marks. B mittee which decided atomic mat-|it is suggested that the Briti 7 ters for the UW, S. Canada and} government, itself, checks the vigor a . t D ; e ; with which the British security pr- saa i e State Department's explana- tzati i : . oe . tion of MMMacLean’s role in atomic ganization might otherwise proceed : affairs of the three nations was ' > prompted by a copyright article inj a 1 the magazine U..S. News & World}, .° ae Pag oY 4 Report. ; pon ves ‘TOOK JOB IN 1947 Fog eens wenn Se Times-Herald stan ‘The magazine claimed Mr. Mac- — ' j Lean “knew how many atomic 4 ' bombs the West had, what were the Wash. Post <. Beg uranium resources and how many _—_— pa bombs could be made with exist- | : ; ; - tro ing sources and materials.” cot te ee Wash. News to H The department pointed out Mr. poeta KCORDED _& : MacLean assumed his job: as eee NoT RECORDER retary of the Policy Committee here ie) Wash. st#r in February, 1947. 42 SEP 22 1951 t — “Since 1946," the department said, |: “there has been no exchange of in-|; nas ee N.Y. Mirror formation concerning fissionable oo material production, processes, weapons technology and develop: | N. Y¥. Compass Lad — or stockpiles of. fissiona qty yas } nT nenncst 8 ag xr DLL va anal