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, ¢ 7 ; e) Ladd J ea Clege : a Plavio 7 Nichols Rosen Tracy f- ae ; Harbo* f ‘ | Alden Be ions Laughlin Mohr Tele, Room Noase Gandy | (Missing British Official Knew (ly, Top. A-Bomb Planning Secrets | ge a ny The Associated Press | . Donald MacLean, the missing; The news magazine said Mac. & British diplomat, was a member | Lean did not know the scientific \ ‘of the committee that controlled | details, because the policy com- AY the wartime exchange between|mittee did not deal with them, this country and its partners injbut did know “the degree of, the development of the atomic{/atomic cooperation among the bomb, a State Department/three countries — Great Britain, spokesman said yesterday. Canada, and the United States.” MacLean and Guy Burgess, a} MacLean came to Washington fellow- British . Foreign Office |as First Secretary of the British’ member, mysteriously disap-)Embassy in 1944. In-that post, , peared from London May 25.;the magazine said, important. They since have been the object |secrets passed through his hands. of a broad international man-/|It said that when the top jater-, hunt, accompanied by sugges-|national policy committee on the tions both may have slipped be-/atomic project was set up, he| : ; - } ‘hind the Iron Curtain with vital became secretary cof the British f Secrets. . -| Section. : The State ‘Department official| It added that anothbr fob was § here would confirm vunly that|to arrange for “swapping facill- - | mn x a A Page MacLean was a member of the |ties, exchanging scientists among g combined policy committee that|the countries, for gefting uran- . dealt with top-level internationaltium and other. materials, for ; . Times-Herald relations on the A-bomb project. [dividing secrets.” ~ ¢. An. article in United States} “And it arranged for the ad- News’ and World Report said|mission of Dr. Klaus Fuchs into Wash. Post { MacLean knew “how many |the United States,” the article] .- tomic bombs the West had, said. “There he got the atomic : h. X hat were the uranium re-|information at was to make whe ows ources, how many bombs could|him the super-spy of all time.” | Loe oa 44 1B, /. vias ¥ p _— made with existing resources} Fuchs now is in a British ECORDED nd materiale.” toon, + | prisen. 7 alam NOT ioT R & * Wash. Star. " aa 42 SEP 261951 _— ma N.Y. Mirror bo Qyé ULETED COPY $22 TT OB. otece Nore Dof 7 E BY LETTER JUN 22 1076 Udorrzy- . y veeehey ( PER FOIA REQUEST So i & Date: _2-¢>- S/