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ee ae ee ee eee | I PR TEN AS Pe AM 2 Ea OE nae tte, COPY , ’ . . . THIS IS THE DEPOSITION sHICH MACLEAN MADE TO ME OW 24, MAY. I am haunted and burdened by what I know of official secrets, especially by the content of high-level Anglo-American conversations. The British Government, whom I served, ‘have betrayed the realm to Americans, who . are rather jealous than indifferent towards it, to incinerate and destroy in their om sole beneficial interest. I wish to enable my beloved. country to escape from the snare which faithless politicians have eet. I deeply” admire the example of patriotian shown by those men and wonen--Joluistone, Bidwell, Dagleish, Rides, and especially John Peet--who chose voluntary | exile because they could not countenance, but had bo expose, the criminal " instructions of the Foreign Office to conduct subversive activities within the People's Democracies... -~ The criminal plans of which I have official knowledge touch deeper and more popular British interests: no longer ovr national honour, but our hope of survival as a people. I hold identical copies of the minutes of all Anglo-American conversations relating to the use of the North Atlantic Treaty for the preparation and launching of assault on the ‘Soviet Unions to the preparations made by the State Department, and particularly by re John Foster Dulles, for arranging the Korean Yar, and, subsequently, . \