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fv 6 - if | . MCT a LINKTD ) TEAK oF U.S. SECRETS IN carag’ VA 7 a See mbes “3 | By Don Cook in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBU, datelined “tonton, Ped, B. Cook reports that in Cairo three months ago he. was . ~ told tre story of the discovery of a “Cairo letter" ‘that, was - Coo of " Felated, to the case of the «disappearing British: @iplomats, Donald Maclean ani Guy Burge sss The letter was found ina” a book by a visitor in the British mmbassy library, It was ataressed to Maclean, appeared to be in some Sord of code, ‘ was Signed by an american who might have been an employee | “of, “the U.S. Fmbassy in Cairo and in general gave uI5, to whon it. - Was handed, the general impression that Maclean had an american ‘contact and that the ‘‘tHo were using the British ‘enbassy dibrary 28 @ Communications drop - a favorite device of espionage, Ian One od d aspect” of the case, reports Cook, was that Pine American girl whose apartment Maclean wrecked in a drunken Soe Oat ane brawl that ‘led to his recall to Ionion was an employee of the LB amerficen Embassy's library. He and a Companion made a shambles 2 . of the place and the next moming, the U.S. ambassador called on = 2s Sa © the British ambassador and “declared Mac lean’ €6 ve persona non \ * DELETED COPY SE"T oe 2 grata to the american Emba say. BY uri JUN 22 1976 qhe British ambassador was 80 Bhocked that he ordered Maclean aboard the next ‘Plane for - . London, not even giving the diplomat pem ission to enter his : : office and Soliect h his sameied and belongings. « bee i a ceaied BS IKR/Y 2 ;NOT RECORDED, wae