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The’ State. ‘Deparment sought * “ide at_a missing Britis MacLean, 38.: a and ad, a ‘urgess,: 40, “disappeared from., * their British Foreign, Office jobs; or ‘May 26., ¥ The State‘ Department sogvedes: | however, that Mr.MacLean.am: sed ‘ agonsiderable amount: of infor ition on the U, S. atomic energy prow, Y gram.‘ He got: this information in 1947 and 1948 when’ he was secre-4 tary of the Combined Policy “Com-+ ‘ mittee which decided atomic -mat- | . UESy Ganada’ and , 4: | that time to the Soviet atomic ener - “| gy program and strategic planners. “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 ald = to the USSR.” IK ‘The fact Temains ‘that. "utr, “sac: | dcotne! magazine’ ‘claimed ME. Ma 1 pean and Mr. Burgess'did compile reant “knew how ‘many’ atomic’ & ‘great, deal of knowledge upetul bombs'the West had, what were the! to thé Soviet Union. Between them uranium vesources and ‘how -many hey, also had knowledge’ of codes, bambs: could: be, made, with , exist-; forth Atlantic Treaty orgal ing ‘sources and’ materials.’ { tion ant Comme plans, Japanese ‘The department’ pointed out ,Mr.| Peace treaty, objet ves and no tel: MacLean assumed his’ job as ‘sec ing what, other: information which retary of the Policy, Committee, rherel their own areas of authorit ‘ - int Febru: 1947, 156: bo: © POLITICAL ISSUE en Since 1946,” the de] art ment sad ri i “etnere Ti exchange in-] _ Disappea: pearance, !MacLean™’ and sormation —toncerning fissionable Burgess on May 36 has ‘become’ a ai Toduc hot political issue in. Great Bultain.} mi process Weapon: ae reshnotogy: and devel Conservatives accuse the ‘Socialis! ments OF stock tes of . “the” three~ nations’ for peacetime uses, rf. Fantum the. A-bomb' H, inj ent)" available: to the’ thre¢ : countries af'that'time and what the \ Sed? eg; considered ay Classified or. Kept 'secrets Oe 63 SEP MI Tetons meget et ‘42 SEP 22 196i Rosen. Tracy. Harbo. Alden Belmo Laughlin Mohr, Pu Tele. Room HO Che RET OB BY LET! en shes “ee PER FOIA REQUEST ood = ‘Vmarks’ SY Butt oo -3 -313- -A NOT RECORDED Page ee Fimes-Herala Oe /, Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star™ N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Compass.