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Chigese Got Information ‘Phe request was made by the Americans Sectetary af State on: November 33, but the word wame back that the alltes re- jected it. This was highly secret information, but evidentiy the Red Chinese jearned that there} was no great danger in their iIntervention—-no denger of an attack on their bases it the rear—and they went ahead on November 25 with a full-scale, intervention that turned the tide of the Korean War. ‘What aid the State Depart- ment tel the other govern- ments? How much of this ine formation passed through the hands of MacLean in the Brit- sh foreign office? What-did he do with 11? Senator Eastland, chairman of the Senate sub- eommitive on internal security, has ssked several questions. about this in a letter to Secre- tary Dulies. Vladimir Petrov, the Sovict. official who defected in Aus«! tralia, has established that Mac-| Lean and Burgess were Jor years supplying documents from the British foreign office to the Bor yiet government. This became known only a few weeks age and has revived! interest in the statements made by various American miltsry mn who have suspected that Bomedsdy had hetvayed them fn Korea, Report to Senate ‘The Senate subcommittee on: tnternal security, in its formal Report last January, said: “The senior military com~ ‘anders tn the Korean war thenter who appeated before fne Mntersal security subcom- iauttee of the Senate committee en the fudiclary believe Oret] possible subversion, wishful thinking, Buropean orientation, aad allied pressure denied thent| WL, oes “The senior military come mandera in the Korean war: theater... supplied some clues: to possible subversion in gov- ernment departments, but were! unable to make specific charges.” Most important, bowever, the statement of military doc-| trine which came from one after! another of ie military com-~| manders concerning enemy be~ havior at the time of the Red. Chinese intervention, Gen, Mark Clark, Gen, Strate-! meyer, Gen. MacArthur, Gen, Almond and Gen, Van Fleet: have ell Indicated by their tes- timony that the Red Chinese: Must have known they would: run no risks by intervening in| Korea. Here is the colloquy at the Senate hearing with Gen, Yan Fleet, Commander , 6. & O Eighth Army from April, 1981 to February, 1953: Ly “Q. Do you believe that the Chinese Coramunists would have erossed the Yalu without assur- sree that our military action jwould be limited? “A. No. He (the enemy? would not have entered Korea if he aid not feel safe from attack in North China and Man- churia.” . MacArthur's Letter ‘Here js an extract from a jet. ter to Sen. Byrd, of Virginia, Democrat, written by Gen. Mac- Arthur on April 19, 195%; “By one process or snother St jWas conjectured by, or conveyed to,.the Red Chinese that ever: though they entered the fray in large force it would be under the) sanctuary of being relieved from! any destructive action of our: military forces within the own area,” Here ss what Gen. Almond, commander of the 1th U.S. my Corps from September, 2950, to duly, 1961, sald to the Senate committee: “The things as they happened Hooked very strange insofar as the assurance with which the; enemy appeared to operate, J think it would have been a very ‘Nazardous thing for the Chinese’ to enler North Korea in abundant numbers in which they, aid if they had thought their buses of rice or ammunition or. any other base would be subject to attack.” Who gave the Red Chinese that assurance? Maclean was is a pasition to do so because he anew almost. American commanders would do, jfor he handled messages on these subjects as they passed to snd from Landon. Whether the {information went! direct to the Soviets in Moscow land then from Moscow to. Peiping, or whether it went by, way of some other intermediate: capitat is irrelevant, The efr- cumstantial evidence points to, the fact ihat the Saviet govern- ment had two Communist agents tuside the British government at a time when it was vita} Lo know what the American military commanders would be permitted to do if the Chinese Communist armies intervened in Kb the; everyining the; Copyrighh, 1953, N.Y. Hesale Teihuhs Tae, ae