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: 0-19 tHev. 5-27-63) ote , € va Did'3 3 British Defectors By TACK STEELE Scripps Howard Staff wetter ? % . ‘The late Gen. Douglas MacArthur's charges that the * British betrayed Korean War strategy and battle plans to 7. the Chinese Reds have since been buttressed by the exposure ‘_ of three top British diplomats who had access to these war secrets as Sovict¢Spjes. . + The three Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Harold Phil- bya subsequel bsoquerny detected and fed behind the Iron Cur- cas INTERVIEWED. Gen. MacArthur's bitter charges were made in a 1954 in- “terview with Scripps-Howard reporter Jim G,. Lucas and were published yesterday by Scripps-Howard newspapers. Gen. MacArthur told Mr. Lucas every message he sent to | Washington during the Korean War was turned over by the State Department to the British who in turn Jeaked it to the Chinese communists “within 48 hours.” A British Embassy spokesman's assertion yesterday that _ there was “'no founation” to the MacArthur charges echoed similar claims made by the British Foreign Office and other officials even as the Burgess, Maclean and Philby Spy cases were unfolding. . : JUN 22 i976 1986 ARTICLE © 7 vee . Gen, MacArthur himself, in a 1956 article i in Life magazine about his dismissal by President Truman as UN Commander in Korea, briefly cited the Burgess-Maclean case (Philby had not yet been exposed as a member of the team.): — - Noting that the defection and exposure of Burgess and Maclean had started to unfold the “true facts” about leaks DELETE COPY seer OR toe Nove Oh BYi.. PER bla igure 5 as) — “These men with access to secret files were undoubtedly’ ' Jinks in the chain to our enemy in Korea thru Peking by noe: ord way of Moscow."* vo 2 Gen. MacArthur added that Président Truman and other! e U. S. officials presumably had refused 1o investigate his vv. ~B warnings about such leaks since they came “after the> ™. - "Qe Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White scandals” and therefore , “caused the deepest resentment.” ‘- z ay "As a curious coincidence, Philb: APR 2y' eee as “the British Hiss. Shader £7 eat Macl eon and Payal ca ee dt 4 . fan Tdvel —_______ Trotter Va Tele Room Holmes a eee Exons Star of Korean War secrets to the communists, he wrofe: tig wy Si ° ~, Tolson <a Belmont [i Mohr Casper —__ Calichan —____ See ee Gandy Fey cages NOTH RE. Sree ened ‘pout ond Ml APR 17 19641mes Herald The Washington Daily News > New York Herald Tribune —______ New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Time: The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The Nationa! Observer Peopla's world yo Loo ° APR 14964- 4