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fir Percy Here on Hurried Call Britain's Counter-Espionage ChiefyFinds Americans All Are wing a Dim View Over Missing Diplomats i. tates military” about what he ‘once comfortably described to a venturesome re porter as “a secret. mission.” It was then made clear that that was the end of the Interview. Events subsequent to Sir Percy's last visit suggest that either American nor British public opinion. now will be sat+ ‘isfied with this airy father- knows-best attitude. These in- Clude the belated uncovering of the German-born Klaus Fuchs" as an atom spy, the flight .to Russia of a leading British atomic scientist, Bruno, Ponte- corvo, and most recently the disappearance of two British diplomats who had been stay toned here. DELETED @OPY ScHT, By Let PER FO. clues 4 : a, ila 1950 ue! yee Heel themseives better qualified to step in there, While Sir Percy's. visit is de- scribed as routine and he does routinely drop into Washing- ton, it is probable that he hur- ried this call along because of embassy reports that Americans were taking a dim view of dis- closures that Britain sent here two diplomats known to be un- stable. This is not good news as best; when the British want loser co-operation “in atomic and military matters, it is very bad for them. . Washington has had some ex- perience of how difficult it ts 2 to achieve unification of the : armed services. Any unification of intelligence is always hard- est of all and It ts bound to be much harder as between coun- tries. It Is readily seen here how de- partment heads cling to their - private police and it is a rare agency of any consequence that does not also feel the need for its own “enforcement” or “se= curity" officers, All the bureau- crats love a spy—provided he works for them and them alone. Quarrels over Intelligence stud the MacArthur story; he relied on his own G-2, n. Wil loughby, whom the Pentagon JUN 22 197 bur om *NENCE EBT = HZOR disliked and distrusted, until Gen, Smith, head of Central Inteltigence, flew to Tokyo to stralghten things out. ‘What the democracies are be- ginning to see, however, is that the centralized Russian system is making valuable hauls while they run thelr own shows sep~ arately and rather casually. cult to-believe that its lost dinlo- mata Donald McLeap and Guy re MLC Ty ae ‘fiom which thee find it Qhetr_temperaments and history | much more than spying, they | They describe Mr. Burgess as “ae. wild man,” but inéist he was way down on the totem pole at the Embassy. His principal re- cent assignment was to look after a visiting Royal Com- mission on the Abolition of Capital Punishment. Mr. Me- Lean is # real puzzle; he was thought to be serious and very able, though it {s dented that he ‘was made privy to any top secret matters, following: a breakdown in Cairo recently. As for diplomats genera'ip, they are sighing for the age pf innocence when the cause wis always a beautiful woman ad not Russians, i Mia F 714169 oT RECORDED Dep SEP 11 1951 Pa? Wash. Post Wash. News .W_', Wash. Star Gd/~ - N.Y. Mirror, —__ Y. Compass.