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Mirae reportedly vceoured leter. He recalled, however, that CLEAN bsd beer hospitaliseé on abou 2t Pour OCCES zons in Cairo becau use Of an jing thet he had picked up while on duty in x Cairo; BEYpt. @ WE wes uneble to edvise pefarcine the navure £ this fitness. ype went on to stete thet in conssderi ine the fart thet MACLEAN was reported to hsve hes e nervous breakdown in Caire,. coupled with Ids knowledge of MAC LESS s cer-to-daey Worinwine”, it was comeeivable that the “drinkine" led him into the association of an agent of enother country whe by discussion or otherwise Son ranges such & "Jeunt™ as this weekend trip of iSCLESN end & ESS which hee beer reported in the nawspepers, "ee; states thet another point te ba considered was that while in Cairo, MACLEAN nea Ot Ohe ooocagion stated thet he was short of money end did net heave enough to spend. MN sceted that he felt the: Eritish Forelen OPPice mace acequete silowances for their nyleyees. He aaig thet he knew ncething of any private Anoome of MACLEARS but pointed out that it was conceivable that tne Latter hed weeith England which he could not use in Erypt, esnec faliy in view of the fect thet et that time the English serling wes not freely transTerasie to Eerpt. He went om to state that the only reticnal construction he eouid give to the hewspaper comments on ACLEAT'S Living at the heform Club was that it wes quite the netursal thing for Kim to de as the Club was close to the British Foreign Office. he said thet MACLEAN could walk through the pars and would be eb)e to be readily avaliable for work. He elsc stated that knowing MASLEAN he could imerines him very "cold ploodealy" telling his wife he wouldn't be home on any parbiculap weereanc, ané thet because of the restricted life in Britain he conic readily understand the attraction of « weekend in France - Be steted that he thought it possible that both MACLEAN and BURGESS may have been the victims of @ plan to which they je ft thenselves open by excessive drinking. He further stated that although the bakeare of MACLEAN end BURGESS Kas reportediy left om the ship, it would have very well been possible for them to heave heen induced te go eshore. He aise pointed out the possibility of MACLEAN having had a sudden mentel aberration because of his "*inking™, c Tt was aN 0211 ef that although MACLEAN was @ heavy drinker, in matters of high secrecy and military matters he did not believe MACLEAN would bave willingly or even inadvertently disclosed a "single piece of information" He stated there was no guestion that as hesd of the Chancery in Cairo he was in a Bos ition to have access to everything in the Embassy. Both az band his wife stated that they had no reason whetscever for believing there were eny Soviet angles involved in the tas s "ety hf a *® d / 3a