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G-L9 (1i-Zd-59) ‘Cairo Letter’ Hints Maclean — Had U.S. Tieup NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (P}.—The New York Herald Tribune said today a mysterious “Cairo letter” found lastz\November suggests’ that Donaid’Maclean in 1950 was receiving secret American docu- ments from ® contact in the United States Embassy in Cairo. In a dispatch from London, Herald Tribune Correspondent} Don Cook said the reappearance in Moscow of Maclean and Guy Burgess, both former British! diplomats, had led to the first reference to the letter in the British press. Mr. Cook wrote that he was told of the letter when he was on an assignment in Cairo three months ago and! that at that time the matter! was under intense security in-/ vestigation but it now could be disclosed. } Mr, Cook's account said: | Eariy last-November au envel- it containing a letter addressed] to Maclean was found in a book ‘in the British embassy library in’ |Cairo. The letter was dated May j1950, the month Maclean was lent home from his post as head of the political department of the 'British embassy in Cairo. ‘he letter was twned over to \ynEemoren's inteltigérecoreth. BY IFTTER PER bu | ‘fhe toe was signed by an ‘American, with indicat it the sender may have been an employe of the United States. ‘embassy across the street in ‘Cairo from the British embassy. | The tetter contained “a series lof cryptic sentences with ref.) erences of a clearly conspiratorial! sort that,only the recipient would| ifully understand. One sentence, ivan: ‘David is very cautious about Donald's replacement and doesn't know what he is like" | Mr. Cook said the letter also carried a reference to shirts and towels and “even a superficial appraisal led to the conclusion that Maclean had an American contact and the two were using the British Embassy library for their communications drop.” Maclean was sent home on the first available plane without! having time “to pick up his; mail,” Mr. Cook wrote, after he and a friend in @ drunken spree wrecked the apartment of a woman employe in the United States Embassy. The dispatch said the finding of the letter “gives the lie” to the Moscow statement issued by; Burgess and Maclean saying neither had acted as Commu- gent: t_agents. —? __Folson 7 7 Nichols oardman — : a VAs Mason ~~ Mohr Parsons: Rosea Tamm Nease —-_-___-__. Wintercowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy / pra BAANIGA is 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 Date we