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wer London Oct 29 (Reuters) - The british Foreign Office disputed & claim today that the F.B.I. holds a recording of a privete speech containing Communist sympathies made in New York by a British diplomat. But the Foreign Office did not deny a statement issued yesterday that the Diplomat - Donald Maclean who vanished apparently to east Europe 18 months ago - heid Communist sympathies. Maclean was nared as a sympathiser by Foreign Undersecretary Loré Reading in the House of Lords yesterday. He was replying to a charge from a member, Lorc Elton, that the F.5.I. had the speech recording. Reading denied any ~«__ knowledge of the speech. A Foreign Office spokesman suggested today tnat there may be confusion over another speech which was recorded at a New York purty by another missing diplomat, Guy Burgess, wna. vanished with Maclean. i This speech is believed to have been a burlesque of Premier ; Winston Churchill's gruff platform menner and contained no . Communis t sy mpathies . eat ae een So Ciena eer # 28s eR ae MO St eT oe Slee oe EE 2 ete ee ed