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ny <egepieiies Department in the British Foreign Office. @@gg@@lMmepointed out that the American Department of the Foreign Office does not handle the confidential work pertaining to America and England. rd He remarked that MiC LEAN was a very easy-going, intclligent, popular sort of individual, who had a little moneys He said MaC LEAN'S father had been a very well ) respected politician in Great Britain. @ emit edyised that he never heard that DONALD M4C LEAN entertained any Communist sympathies or expressed any pro-Soviet views. He said he could not imagine DONALD being engaged in espionage. He declared that MC LEAN'S friends included the artist and intellectual typ, which \ the British sometimes call the "Bloomsbury". oe WME hed no idea where DONALD MAC LEAN could have gone, or where he is. He expressed the opinion that MAC LEAN had "cracked up again", for he could not imagine DONALD leaving his wife, who was about to have another baby. He suggested that possibly both DONALD MAC LEAN and GUY BURGESS are crazy. However, he stated it was un- believable to him that they would "go over to the Russian side because they had sem too much and heard too much of y what Russia actually is". C4 He remarked that both BURGESS and MAC LEAN have many friends throughout Burope, which they made during their assignments with the British Foreign Office. He knew of no close contacts of DONALD M&AC LEAN in the United States, ¢