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(al-2e-39) GY tb is SYEEi: guy 22 1910 wa bode AL ear XY r c& Ink NS ever’ go au 3 Maclean Link -~ To Mystery i Note Denied | Associated Press A spokesman said yesterday that so far as the State Depart- ment knows a Cairo mystery letter had no connection with Britain’s Red diplomat Donal ‘Maclean or wth espionag Press Officer Lincoln White said incomplete reporis re- ceived by the State Department bear out a British Foreign Of fice statement making those points Tuesday. & Maclean and gepother British iplomat, Guy Burgess, who fled rom Londo 1951 turned up in Moscow Saturday. The British say the two were spies. ‘Their reappearance started a} report that a letter written inj the United States and found inj the library of the British em-; bassy in Cairo was addressed | {o Maclean and carried a coded message. The British Foreign Office: said no letter addressed to Mac- Jean was found, A letter found was dated after Maclean's dis- appearance and was addressed to someone else, the announce-; ment. said. White said there was No con- nection between the letter and a May, 1924, spisode. At that time ‘Maclean’ entered the apartment of a girl employed py the United States Embassy in Cairo and caused some dam- age. White said available informa- tion indicates Maclean and a companion blundered into the wrong apartment and it was uncertain whether the Britisher knew the girk 7 White also said the State Department hopes to give a re- port soon to Chairman James ©. Eastland (D-Miss.) of the Senate Internal Security Sub- committee on the Burgess*Mac- Jean case. Eastland is trying to find out if information on United States military policies : and operations in Korea reached ommunist China through Bur. gess_atd-Maclean, | Tolson ‘ Bofedman Mason Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm A Nease Winterrowd —— Tele. Roo! Holloman Gandy \y NR, B Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N. Y.. Mirror N.Y. Daily News Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Belmont . m1