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Fe te Bat tae ome. DR SS ate ope Sona a eye oe Fearon pepe 8 * 20-19 tHew. 5-27-63} LON , i ‘The The MacArthur Charges: testy ’ he Ft Lica — JUN 22 i976 peceren copy sesr OR moe Niue s 1 || * TOE er naene craps sons nd i md ~— ail -# a 1 cee owes aps Betray. Our Korea ": BY “Thex STEELE - wong Scrippi-Howard Siatt wriae ¢ - a The late Gen. Douglas MacArthur's charges ‘that ‘the British betrayed Korean War strategy and battle plans to -. the Chinese Reds have since been buttressed by the exposure of three top British diplomats who had access to these war |, me 4 | > | _ Uz S. officials presumably had refused 1o investigate his * warnings about such leaks since they came “after the> “. Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White scandals” and therefore - : a secrets as Sovie jes. : 7 The three Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Harold Phil- by—all subcegveMY UEteted 2 and fled behind the Iron Cur- wig wee ow LUCAS INTERVIEWED Gen, MacArthur's bitter charges were made in a 194 in- “terview with Séripps-Howard reporier Jim G. Lucas and were published yesterday by Scripps-Howard newspapers. Gen. MacArthur told Mr. Lucas every message he sent to Washington during the Korean War was turned over by the . State Department to the British who in turn leaked it to the Chinese communists “within 48 hours.” A British Embassy spokesman's assertion yesterday that there was ‘no founation” to the MacArthur charges echoed ~ similar claims made by the British Foreign Office and other officials even as the Burgess, } Maclean and Philby SPY | cases -were unfolding. +. - 1956 ARTICLE ‘-- Gen, MacArthur himself, in a "3956 ‘article i in Life r magazine - . ’ about his dismissal by President Truman as UN Commander in Korea, briefly cited the Burgess-Maclean case (Philby had not yet been exposed as a member of the team.) - Noting that the defection and exposure of Burgess and — Maclean had started to unfold the “true facts” about leaks of Korean War secrets to the communists, he wrote: © wt! - “These men with access to secret files were undoubtedly’ ' links in the chain to our enemy in Korea thru Peking by way of Moscow.” | Gen. MacArthur added that Président Truman and other | oY a aMe “caused the deepest resentment.” "+ 2tj./ <0", - As a curious coincidence, Philby once referred to himself.” yg frigngs as “the British Hiss.” ane Maclean and Philby all becam ier Did*3 British” 1 Defectors ~ : ee ~ F i tell Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper eee a Ro Su Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy oper py Re a le te a Ye6.-.2 yp!) NOT Rew Orne Weanington | Post and — 441 APR 17 1964imes Herald _ The Washington Daily News memes aepeerhd Evens Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American ' New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader ") The Wall Street Journal ‘ The National Observer Peopls's Worl ~~ ' Dete yo" APRO 4964.