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Wr aed er. He recalled, however, that é€ on about four occesions in Cairo + he hed picked up while on duty in &. es unable to advise regarding the nature of this lliness. A@NERMP went con to state thet in considering the fact that MACL was reported to hare hed e nervous breakdown in Ceiro,. coupled with Ids knowledce of MACLRAN's day-to-day Werinkine", it was conceivable that the “drinkine” led him into the association of an agent of another country w by discussion ho & "Jeunt™ as this weekend trip of ch hee beer. reported in the newspapers. another point te be considered was that wrile in Cairo, MACLEAN hed om one occasion stated that he was which reportedly vc MACLEAN hsd been ho ° s& kes om nat short of money en¢ did ni eteted that he Stash WERSES for their exp He esid that he knew nothing of any privats income of MACLEANS but pointed out thet it was conceivable that the dstter hed weeith in Englend which he could not use in Egypt, especially in view of the fect that et that time the English sterling wes not freely transferable to Egypt. He went on to ecvate that the only reticnal construction he eould give to the newspaper comments on MACLEAl's living et the Keform Club was that it wes quite the natural thing for him to do ss the Club wes close to the British Foreign Office. He ssid that MACLEAN could walk through the bark and would be eble to be reedily avellable for work. He elsc stated that knowing MASLEAN he could imecine him very "cold bloodedly" telling his wife he wouldn't te home on any particular weekend, and thet because of the restricted life in Britain hs could readily understand the attraction of « weekend in France. He stated that he thought it possible that both MACLEAN and BURGESS may have been the victims of a plan to which they is ft themselves open by excessive drinking. He further stated thet although the begeage of MACLEAN end BURGESS was reportedly left on the ship, it would have very well been possible for them to have’been induced to go eshore. He also pointed out the possibility of MACLEAK having had a sudden mentel aberration because of his "*~inking*™. # it was MARGMMMMMy belief that although MACLEAN was a heavy drinker, in matters of high secrecy and military matters he did not believe MACLEAN would have willingly or even inadvertently disclosed a "single piece cf information". He stated there was no question that as head of the Chancery {n Cairo he was in a position to have access to everything in the Embassy. Both i and his wife stated that they had no reason whetsoever for believing there were eny Soviet angles involved in ths = 13h +