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vro ii. MACLEAN had arrived there in September, 1948, he hed formed the highest opinion of MAGLEAN's intelligence and ebility to quickly - gresp the many factcrs involved in cormmection with the work of the Enbessy. <@MMNWADAOMME steted that he would "have tc confess" thet on ome occesion he went home from the Enbassy and mentioned to his wife thet MACLEAN's physical condition while et his desk dis~ patching Embassy business was that of & person who bad been thorong-.r intoxicated on the previous night. spe steted thet he Yhad te almost admire” MACLEAN's ability to hold up under the work of the Embassy while having the obvious appearance of one who was @& quite "lcaded". : Both MMMM end his wife stated that MACLEAN, while in Cairo, hed attended parties given by King FAROUK and pointed out that it was generei knowledge that FAROUK's parties were of the most immoral type. for which FAROUE wes notorious. They further recalled having been told that MACL&AN, along with others of the Diplometic Service in Cairo, bed gone on @ rather wild boat party on the Nile River. They stated thet for some unknown reason the boat hed sccked about three ofciock in the morning et which time one Fi . 4 got off the boat. He stated thet MACLEAN, in following (gail off the boat, jumped on him, presumably accidents, and broke leg resulting in suuseguentiy heving to leave Eeypt because the lee had failed to heal. 4 i * Sncneap ied hed reportedly - made the statement thet MACLEAN had married his wife because of her having become pregnent when they were in Paris. : both stated that although MACLEAN drank heavily in Ceiro, he had not associated, to their knowledge, with any anti-Sritish or anti-American people and in particular never attended any Soviet perties. oad SRM steted that MELINDA MACLEAN appeared to be s very simple parson and one who couldn't cope with her duties. as the wife of a British Diplomat. She explained that Mrs. MACLEAN @ could not keep servants, and that all she ever did in the way of entertainment was to have large cocktall parties rather than dinner parties. She further stated that the English women in Cairo, in eriticism of MELINDA MACLEANts inability to properly attend to her home, attributed it to her “American housdkeeping®.. With respect to MACLEAN having had & nervous breakdown in Cairo, MMg@lr steted that he hed left there in October, 1949, and therefore, had no knowledge of MACLEAN's nervous breakdown - 133 - ; 25°