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ined wo oa “Maclean A-Data) = y> 0 ea Clegg Not Useful Now, Nene (, Roseo State ept. dyS sie Tracy Harbo __ By Iniernational News Service The State department conceded | Alden today that mjssing British diplo: Belmont mat Donald “MacLean once had access to vital atomic information, Laughlia but contended it would be of little Mobr use to Russla now. MacLean and a fellow British Tele, Room foreign office worker, Guy Bur- Nease gess, disappeared from London May 25 under mysterious circum- Gandy. stances. A world-wide search has been unsuccessful and fears have. | been expressed that the pair may i fo be in Russia. A Bate department spokesman. said that MacLean was made Brit-' ish secretary of the combined U. 8., British and Canadian atomic .policy committee in 1947. {Had ‘Shared Information’ The spokesman emphasized, however, that this was a year after the United States banned the ex- change of information gbout atomic weapons, fisstonabiq ma- wet ba ae terials and A-bomb stockpils. j Y tn % if if. The spokesman stated: | oe - ‘ ° “MacLean had opportunity to . have secess to information shared . by the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom In the field mo, / of patents, declassification mat- ters and the research and develop- a le eee ment§ of procurement of raw mategials from foreign sources. ~ “In| this capacity, McLean had ; access to information relating to _ fe» estimates made in 1948 of ura- (te aN nium ore supplies from foreign ' \ sources ayailable to the three gov- \ u ‘ernmenits for the period 1948-49 , ‘and the definition of scientific d areas in which the three govern. 2 ments deemed technical co-opers- tion could be accomplished with -mutual benefit.” v “Was Only Diplomat” ¢ _ \ The spokesman said the scien- tific areas “in general” included such subjects as health and safe- ty, research with low-power re . _— actors, extraction chemistry, sta- Times-Herald (4 ble isotopes and radioisotopes. | thy The spokesman added: “The role that MacLean had in! Wash. Post these activities was that of a, diplomat. He js not a acientist: and his duties in connection with. Wash. News ‘combined policy committee mat- ‘ters was: of a procedural and. Monel British diplomatic secretarial} Wash. Star character. . . “Some of the information avail-- : able to him in 1947-48 was classi-. fied and would then have been| useful at that time to the Soviet atomic energy progrem and to strategic planners, Because of the changes in the rate and stale: of the U. 8. pro am’ inthe ‘intervéhing* years, ation .avallabif~ tein then. would not now. be of any. appreciable ald to the Soviet.33" wf Page N.Y. Mirror N. Y¥. Gompass