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ments or stockpiles of, fiseinnents |. ' amounts of uranium (the A-bomb's ingredient) available to the three i mmatertaTé~and weapons.’ i “knew sources. tO , However, Mr.: MacLean. had In- 4 formation on the thre nations’ . { atomic patents for peacetime uses, i countries at that time and what the |; committee considered should be classified, e kept secret, in con- . : ~ nection with atomic development. wet! wate. cal ce Ta ee, " + “Some of the information avall-|\Soct 0 et rate e pseeies sg ae able to him in 1947 and 1948,” the [0-9 °# 2247 2: o= Sa oate tg) adn department said, “was classified [ rE ana would then have been useful atl y “Because of the changes in the { rate and scale of the U. S. program in the intervening years, the infor- mation available to him then would not now _he of any appreciable aid to the USSR.” The fact remains that Mr. Mac- Lean and Mf. Burgess did compiie F a great deal of knowledge usefut "2 to the Soviet Union. Between them }*-"> = they also had knowledge of codes,” H of North Atlantic Treaty organiza- se | tion anti-Communist plans, Japanese | ace treaty Objectives and no tell- Ing what other information which f’ they might have obtained outside { - ‘Disappearance of MacLean and Burgess on May 26 has become @ +, hot political issue in Great Britain. * Conservatives accuse the Socialist ’* British government of negligence. f- The assumption from the moment of their flight from London has been that the two men fled behind { ~ . the iron curtain. — Security experts here judge the i . . British Socialists to be wholly un- realistie in their approach to Com- munist espionage. British security Officials themselves and their or-