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Ofc Memorindun "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT > TO 1 MR. BOARDMAN oO uu -- paraiFebsuay 14, ies FROM MR. BELMONT cae oo subject: DONALD pun uncLEAy, ot et al - ESPIONAGE -R wee ee j The attached article, which appeared in this morning's ‘Washington Post Times Heraid" reports the discovery of a letter addressed to Donald Maclean while he was assigned in Cairo, Egypt, Ce 7 _ ; in May 1950. ~ According to the newspaper article, the letter indic | that in 1950 Maclean was receiving secret American documents from a i ontact in the American Embassy in Cairo, The news article notes that — , F Ibarly last November, a user of the British Embassy Library in Cairo An 4 ound the letter while leafing through a library boek. The letter was . described as a series of cryptic sentences. y one sentence of the letter was quoted in the article as follows: avid is very cautious - about Donald's replacement and doesn't know what he’is like, "7.4 +80, f . Purportedly the letter also carried a reference to shirts and towels.” bas P The article recounts in some detail the circumstances previously known == --. ' to the Bureau wherein Maclean, while assigned in Cairo, while intoxicated broke into the apartment of an American girl. At that time Maclean and i a aaa Aomauant did damage to the girl's apartment. — ; = FF. O+ ~ According to thé ews article, the letter which was found ss. | lie, last November was turned over to MI-5 and the article also notes that Sree CS or ere tha Te the American Embassy in Cairo knows of the discovery of the letter. A CUIL 4