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0-19 (aaced-D5) es a _ Associated Presa DONALD MACLEAN ... left “Cairo letter” M aclean. Link To U.S. Cairo Aide Revealed N.Y. Herald Tribune News Service LONDON, Feb. 13—The Te- appearance in Moscow of miss- ing diplomats Donald Maclean aud Guy Burgess brought the, first ‘referefice in the British’ _press .today 40 yet another hitherto secret aspect of the case—the existence of a “Cairo letter” which indicates that in 1950 Maclean was receiving secret American documents: from a contact in the American | Embassy in Cairne. On assignment in Cairo three. months ago, this correspondent: was told the story of the dis- covery of the “Cairo letter,” which had only — recently occurred. 4 Iwarly last November, a user of the British Embassy library in Cairo was leafing through: . a library book when out drepped an ebvelope contain- ing letler addressed to Don- ald Macleade —— | Maclean had been head of me political department ytine iBritish Embassy in Cairo from, 1948 until he was abruptly sent home on the first available air-: craft after wrecking the apart- ment of an American gitl in, a drunken brawl in May, 1950.: The letter was dated that: month, and clearly Maclean! had Jeft Cairo without having | time to “nick up his mail.” tLe t Up TMS Mais. ‘The letter was turned over'| to MI-5, the counter-intelligence; branch of the Embassy. Of ap-’ parent significance was the fact that the letler was signed by an American, with indications that it may have been an em-, ploye of the American Embas-, sy immediately across the: street from the British Embas- sy. The letter was a series of ‘erypti¢ sentences with refer:| ‘ences of a conspiratorial sort ‘that only the recipient would fully understand, One sentence, van: “David is very cautious about Donald's. replacement and doesn't know what he is like.” ' The letter also carried a ref-' ‘erence to shirls and towels.: Even a superficial appraisal led; te the eonclusion that Maclean had an American contact and: the two were using the British | Library for their “sammunica-| tions drop’—a favorite device of espionage. One other odd circumstantial aspect of the affair is the fact that the American girl whose flat Maclean wrecked while: drunk that night in May, 1930, was employed in the American Embassy library. Maclean arrived at the girl’s: apartment very ‘late, having seen her earlier in the evening at a cocktail party. By this time. he anda friend with him were; “Soe MACLEAN, Page 13, —a Tolson, ~ (oo Nichols : Nease Winterrowd A Tele. Room —__ Fe Hallam i ‘ Holloman Gandy ry Wore Eee - = ay 12m Five 9 Wash. Post and __f- Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. ¥. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News —_ Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ayo satis. WERE cae ota anny