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dy 4 - ‘Missing British ‘Diplomat Knew : i D.C, July 16 + = Donal Lean, missing Brit- ish diplomal ‘a member of the + committee which controlled war- ‘ time exchange between this coun- ‘ try and its partners in developing . the atom bomb, a State Depart- : ment spokesman said today. MacLean and Guy Burgess, fef- Jow British Foreign Office official. in London, dropped mysteriously from sight May 25. They have been the object of an interna- . tional manhunt | spurred by sug- gestions both may have slipped behind the Iron Cury tain with vital secrets. The State De- partment of fi- cial confirmed Donald ‘:. only that Mac- MacLean Jean was a member of the com- bined policy committee which dealt with top-level international rela- tions on the A-bomb project. Handled Secrets. He refused further comment on an article in U.S. News and World Report, which said MacLean knew “how many atomic bombs the West “had, what were the uranium re- sources, how many bombs could be made with existing resources and materials.” , MacLean came to Washington tas first secretary of the British | Embassy in 1944. In that post, the magazine commented, secrets - passed through his hands. It said ithat when the top international “policy committee on the atomic . Project was set up he became sec- _Fetary of the British section, The ‘policy committee once “arranged for the admission of Dr. Klaus ‘Fuchs into the United States,” the article said. “There he got the atomic information that was to make, him. the .superspy of. all | e.” Fuchs now is serving. a M-year coctierte in a B 26495. #--icd GURY ge BY LETTER JUN 2: PER Fata REQUEST ‘for 7 STE - A NOT RECORDED oer Ze ee 199) ee IT ce. Me Oe 2 1976 “