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0-19 (Rev. 12-966) clean’sS py ing} Mc ore Vital) ¢€ Thin B ritish HA ave Admitted ‘London gunday Times” “LONDON, Oct. 7A’ sev cret intelligence report which the Sunday Times tracked down in Washing- ton in the course of its in-- vestigations into the Philby - conspiracy makes it clear that, contrary to repeated British government asser- tions since 1951, Donald Maclean had access to every crucial Anglo-Ameri- can policy decision at the height of the Cold War. /The report was compiled - in 1956 by U.S. State De- partment intelligence offi- cers in an attempt to assess the damage done by Mac-”. : Jean and Guy D. Burgess" who fled with him in 1951.}, For the first time, the re- pokt reveals the magnitude of \Maclean’s espionage achjevements. If is also the first evi-~ dence from official files {that the British government has been consistently mis- leading in its statements on Maclean's duties and the type of material to which he had access. In fact, the U.S. intelli. | gence report reveals that Maclean had knowledge of secret Anglo-American ex- changes on the North At- antic pact, the Korean War and the Japanese | peace treaty.” It also shows, for instance, that Maclean had full knowl- edge of the critical Ameri-_ can determination to’ “lo- calize the conflict,” and therefore of its decision not _ to allow the United Nations forces under Gen. MacaArth- ur to carry the war against the Chinese coast. - ‘ Both MacArthur and his chief: of intelffgence, Gen. Chhrles Willofghby, were cerfain at the me that this inf ration | hy been passed “598 Seah DONALD MACLEA! to the Russians. Just before he died, MacArthur com-: plained that the Chinese not only knew of this policy de- cision but “all our strategic troop mcvements.” Until now it has generally been believed that Maclean, first secretary in the British Embassy in Washington and later head of the American . Department in the Foreign Office, passed to the Rus- sians only marginal atomic secrets, He saw these in the course Jof his duties as U.K.* i,secretary of the combined policy committee—the body set up to regulate the Anglo- American exchange of scien- tifie information on’ , the atomic program. This ‘nformation was vital enough, the report reveals. Maclean was able to tell: J 4 canse’ of this the citeum- , took their secrets to Moscow in 1951. stances of 1947 have to be recalled. In the early post- war years the world supply of uranium was thought to be limited. The West there- fore embarked, in extreme secrecy upon a program of “premptive buying” of uran- jum, in an attempt to corner all the known resources. Maclean was in a position to tell the Russians every de- tail of these vital negotia- tions.n. The revelations provide the first credible explana- tion of the necessity that drove the master-spy Harold Philby to risking, and in the . event wrecking, his whole espionage career, to tip off, Maclean before the British security services could reach the Russians “‘the estimates., him.” + made at that time of urani- um ore supply available to the three governments— ‘ Britain, America, and Canada. ' To appreciate the signifi: 10€232. Maclean was not, as previ! ous explanations have sug- | gested, simply an old friend. ' He was Russia's most _jm- * portant known dij atic spy in the cold war years, ener eee ecineny LL, NOT bk ORDED™ 70 oct) TS Po0- 37h 3 47 OCT 16 1967 ‘The Washington P. Times Rerald ‘The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) ___ ‘The Sunday Star (Washington) ____ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post ‘The New York Times World Journal Tr: (New York) The Sun (Baltimore) ‘The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journal —___ The National Observer —______ People’s World ie _ Tolson DeLoach Mohr ——_s____ Wic! Cocker ——__ Callahan Conrad Felt Gale. Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy oor Aad