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Np REAL . Colleen /Maclean 85 pying More Vital Fen — a oan ivi Tovel London guaday Times A2 Trotter LONDON, Oct. 7—A se Tele. Room ¢ret intelligence report Holmes which the Sunday Times Gandy 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 rf For the first , the port ‘reveals the magnitude of Maclean's e8 nage achievements. rene ee sy the Russians. Just before cance @ is a circum: It is also the first evi. he died, MacArthur com- stances of 1947 have to be dence from pofticial files plained that the Chinese not recalled. In the early post- that the British government only knew of this policy de> war years the world supply has been consistently mis- cision but “all our strategic of uranium was thought to Ly -took thelr secrets to Moveae in ” leading in its statements on troop mevements.” var | Maclean's duties and the 4 Until now it has generally Pe limited. The West there: | rye washington Post type of material to which [been believed that Maclean, fre embarked, in extreme Times Herald A Gs, he had access. first secretary in the British S@crecy upon a program of * In fact, the U.S. intelli: ]Embassy in Washington and fum, in an attempt ee The Washington Daily News Bence report reveals that }later head of the American in a The Evening Star (Washington Maclean had knowledge of {Deparment in the Foreign, ai! the known resources. _'* °YeNNE® . hingte / secret Anglo-American ex- [Office, passed to the Rus- Maclean was in a position to Sunday Star (Washington) changes on the North At- [sians only marginal atomic tell the Russians every de- | Daily News (New York) lantic pact, the Korean War |secrcts. He saw these in the tail’ of -these vital negotia | «.n4ay News (New York) and the Japanese peace Jcourse of his duties as U.K. tons. . treaty.” secretary of the combined The revelations provide | New York Post ——W _____ It aiso shows, for instance, {policy committee—the body the. first! credible explana- | The New York Times —___ that Maclean had full knowl- [set up to regulate the Anglo- tion of the necessity that The Sun (Balti edge of the critical Ameri- }American exchange of scien drove the master-spy Harold van (Baltimore) ————.—__ ean determination to “lo- fftific information on the Ehilby to risking, and in the | The Worker calize the conflict,” and saiomic program. , e his whole | the New Leader _ therefore of its decision not This :nformation was vital espionage career, to tip off . to allow the United Nations Jcnough, the veport reveals, Maclean before the British | The Wail Street Journal forces under Gen. MacArth- (Maclean was able to telt security services could reach ! The National Observer ur to carry the war against [the Russians “‘the estimates him. People’s World the Chinese coast. made at that time of urani- Maclean was not, as previ- Ee Both MacArthur and his Jum ore supply available to fous explanations have sug- OCT 8 1967 chief of intelligence, Gen. {the three governments— gested, simply an old friend. Date —___~*— Charles Willoughby, were [Britain, America, and §He was Russia's most im- u certain at ihe time that this Canada. portant known diplomatic % infoi hod been passed = To appreciate the an py in the cold war year ¢ < CD a NOT NOT RECORDEI D UP, & of. 3 47 30i 1? 1967 4