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ee Associated Press { DONALD MACLEAN | _ 4 / ++ left “Cairo letter” ~ { (}aclean Link To U.S. Cairo’ Aide Revealed KT, Heralé ‘Tribune News Service * * LONDON, Feb. 18—The re- appearance in Moscow of miss- ing diplomats Donald Maclean) jand GuySurgess brought the ‘first Selarenseoa ference In the British case—the existence of a “Cairo letter” which indicates that in 1950 Maclean was receiving secret American documents from a contact in the American Embassy in Cairo. -_> On assignment in Cairo ‘{months ago, this correspondent was told thi dropped an envelope contain- ing a letter addressed to Don- ald Maclean, .> 4 Maclean had been head of: the political department of the! British Embassy in Cairo from‘ 1948 until he was abruptly sent inn on the first available air-; craft after wrecking the apart ment-of an American girl in fa drunken braw] in May, 1950. “The letter was dated that month, and . clearly. Maclean had left Cairo without “having time to “pick ap his mail” ‘The letter was turned over ‘to M15, the counter-intelligenee ‘branch of the Embassy. Of apt ‘parent significance was the fact at the letter was signed by e Amcrican, WTttr-iedications at it may have been an em- Ploye of the American Embas- & immediately across the Areet from the British Embag, Ce eee iT c ntences wifi retert| jet. « of a conspiratorial sort! ‘|that only the recipient, would :fully understand. One sentence ‘ran: “David Is very cautious’ about. Donald’s replacement; ~ jjand doesn't know what he The letter also carried a ref-: iference to shirts and towels.! i{Even a superficial-appraisal Jedi j|te the conclusion that Maclean shad an American contact and the two were using the British Library for their “communica tions drop"—a favorite device of espionage, | One other odd circumstantial aspect of the affair is the fact that the American girl whose ‘|fiat_ Maclean wrecked while drunk that night in May, 2950,| was employed in the American} -- . ose . Embassy library. es epee ae we weree eee = faclean arrived at the girl's : - afjartment very late, having : wee eee seen her earlier in the evening, cae af 2 cocktail party. By this time hi} and 2 friend with him were; See MACLEAN, Page 13, Cot. @ Dye STF ierlée’ ot MacLEAN—From P. | Pre Maclean Tie to U, 8. Aide In Cairo Embassy Aired ‘: sjquite drunk, and they burst in|mit him to come ints the Em- and began pulling down cur-jbassy to clean up his desk. He tains, smashing pictures, turn-lwas -airbound for London by 2 ing out drawers, ete... ~~ o'clock that afternoon ~ .* ! The girl fied and telephoned] ence there was scarcely an for help, and by the time the takes # Jong time to get di F Aitories changed in Coates: opportunity for him to pick up am or eta ibe psgosuse ‘|police arrived the apartment/any conspiratorial mal) in the! “hws 4 the two men|Embassy library. . ’ — ae Fiero ia Sy Brabasey “Ia Sayre tte 1 Thad passed out . i ii oan Cairo knows of the discovery off i |{ American Ambassador Jeffer-l¢h, “Cairo Letter,” but the ex- :{son Caffery next morning ent to which the British may Wash. Post and ——— .|ing waiked across the street tO}nave communicated the details, Times Herald British Ambassador Sir Relpbity the American Eqbassy ar! *}Stevenson and formally dinave examined with American, Wash. News clared Maclean to be “persona authorities the question of who} Wash. Star non grata” to the Americatlthe American author of the tet; N. Y. Herald Embassy, and demanded dam-iter to Maclean might have been’ . Y. Hera! ‘ages for the girl's effects. lis not, of course, known to this! Tribune | Sir Ralph ordered Maclean! Teporter. In any case, such @ N. Y. Mirror iput on the first airplane leav-/decision would have been taken, oot jhe Cairo and did ReveuanePel1-ocretly in London, and not Daily Worker —____ . Cairo, eae The Worker - As a footnote’ to the affair,” Maclean in Cairo occupied aj New Leader canis le residence ouned by the’ . British government, and as of! ere . ‘December telephone bills were! - still coming in in ‘his name. It _ Date