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“5 “ok Ly ee mor? : pate 4 en aa NS ei LAY Wu 7 "py JACK STEELE os Scripas-Howard Siaft Writer The late Gen. Douglas MacArthur's charges that the British betrayed Korean War strategy and battle plans to the Chinese Reds have since been buttressed by the exposure . of three top British diplomats who had access to these war | secrets as Soviet spies. three Donaid Maclean, Guy Burgess and Jarold Phil, | : 1 subsequently defected and fled behind the lron Cur- i fain. i LUCAS INTERVIEWED Gen. MacArthur's bilter 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 tof Washington during the Korean War was turned over by thet.’ State Department to the British who in turn leaked it to the Chinese communists “within 43 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. 1956 ARTICLE 1 Gen, MacArthur himself, in a 1956 article in Life mazazine about his dismissal by President Truman as UN Commander | in Korea, briefly ciled the Burgess-Maclean case (Philay 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 j i “These men with access to secret files were undoubtedly links in the chain to our enemy in Korea thru Peking by | way of Moscow.” - Gea. hue added that President Truman snd other presumably had refe. © Lo inves. @ his ch leaks since they came “dict the Dexter White scandals” and therefore Csi resentment.” . dence, Philby once referred to h'mself ‘ish Hiss.” . Alger Iles and ne “caused Lie ©. of Korean War secrets lo the communists, he wrote: " wa v » Falk TA ees 7 Belmow - 7 Mohr Casper Callahan + Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy ™~ > aX NM NX aN wh 4 S S & “s + /, NOT Nawal mis Woe 441 APR 17 1964 Times Heraia Ce 1 ORIGINAL eo 7 ti% Mashington Post ané The Washington Dally News De eens apereed BEAN Ing Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Ametican New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post ‘The New York Times —_ .____ The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal —_--——— ‘The National Observer —_____. Peopie’s World _ Date _t