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PAGE THREE s = ae | STATIONED IN PARIS SQQMBMRy NINETEEN THIRTYEIGHT AND THIRTYNINE. | NEXT TIME epee veaRD OF MACLEAN WAS IN NINETEEN FORTYSEVEN WHEN LATTER ATTACHED BRITISH EMBASSY, WASHINGTON. QM SAID HE SAW MACLEAN ONCE IN THE US IN NINETEEN FORTYEIGHT, AT PLAZA HOTEL, NYC. MACLEAN WITH HIS WIFE, LOBBY OF HOTEL, AND TOLD SMQNNBMMMy THAT HE AND WIFE WERE GOING TO CAIRO, EGYPT FOR NEW ASSIGNMENT. mmtieis SAID HE HEARD MACLEAN HAD NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN CAIRO AND WAS DRINKING TOO MUCH. ecg@MMOWH ALSO HEARD THAT WHILE IN CAIRO, MACLEAN BECAME INVOLVED IN_AN INCIDENT WHICH meM@AINMIM DESCRIBES AS MACLEAN BEING IN ALTER- CATION WITH SOME EGYPTIANS AND WAS RECALLED TO ENGLAND FOR THIS. <eqgsmadmae in) ATTEMPTED TO STRAIGHTEN DONALD OUT WHEN LATTER RETURNED TO ENGLAND AND THAT THEY PLACED HIM IN AMERICAN DEPARTMENT, BRITISH FOREIGN SERVICE, WHICH OFFICE, MMMMMRIMMSAID, DID NOT HANDLE THE CONFIDENTIAL WORK PERTAINING TO AMERICA AND ENGLAND. 4SQQMB SAID HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF MACLEAN HAVING ANY COMMUNIST SYMPATHIES OR ANY PRO SOVIET VIEWS AND HE COULD NOT IMAGINE MACLEAN POSSIBLY BEING Sov- IET AGENT. WE SAID THAT MACLEAN-S FRIENDS INCLUDED THE ARTISTIC AND INTELLECTUAL TYPE WHICH THE BRITISH SOMETIMES CALL THE "BLOOMSBURY". ' END PAGE THREE ‘ - i