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O19 (41-22-55) Mystery Letter ‘Not \ To Maclean’ | LONDON, Feb. 14 # — The Foreign Office tonight officially denied the existence of a letter from a mysterious American to Donald Maclean the renegade British diplomat who skipped to Moscow in 1951. Farlier today, Sir George Young, chief spokesman of the Foreign Office, had sald such a letter had been discovered he-, tween the pages of a book in) the library of the British Em- bassy in Cairo, A statement issued tonight declared that a letter has in fact turned up in the British Embassy library—but it was “from an address in the United _——.: States io a third person, clear- ly not Maclean.” Some of the newspaper ac-| counts hinted that Maclean,; who fled to the Soviet Union! with fellow diplomat Guy Bur- gess in 1951, had contacts with a spy ring involving Amer-, jeans. (in Washington, the State De-i partment was asked if it was investigating a published re- port that the letter suggests Maclean had a contact in: the United States Embassy at Cairo. It replied: “We have no oficial information on this and ace looking into the matte: ”) RY LEFTIES Hy Ry 195 Now VY ore Ley f - T Nit ole eee pt Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm ———-——_—- Nease —.____ ~ Winterrowd ——____ Tele. Room Holloman Gandy j MR, ein “AN 339 58 SEE Wash. Post and —~ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Heraid Tribune N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News __ Daily Worker ~ The Worker New Leader Boardman o