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The chemist is Mr. B. J, | Thite, 47-year-old. Freeh | an of the City of Londo He is also an optician, an al-dealer in second-han furniture. His homie is in Croydon, but he has a shop here. Frequent visits He told me that Maclean lived at Tatsfield, three miles away, and at one time used frequently to develop films in his dark*room. , a-Ppere were a number shspicious circumstances, ah Il saw that the War Offic ithorities Enew of my Sus ions,” he told me, “There are three reasons why I cannot discuss the case _ of Maclean fully. «The first is because of the War Office. “The second ig on profes- sional grounds, connected with ithe Pharmaceutical Society of which I am 2 member, “The third is that @ number of ‘other people might get involved.” By, White eonfirmed that Maclean had used his dark- room abeve the brick-buut op in the main street i esterham—just over twp Sir Winston Churchill. fferent hours to develop his | films, iles from the country home | he ‘Evening Standard Diplomatic Corresponddntl writes: ow did Donald Maclean. the Foreign Office spy, det the tip-off that he was undtr - suspicion in time ta flee the country? Security officers. T understand, are. rasonably coffident. that. there was no leakage .of the information and that no one slipped hing a Warning. a Documents withheld They now fee] that several factors combined to arouse . his own suspiciotis. A Foreign Office spokesman eqofirmed teday that durir the time that Maclean w active investigation, oh value were withheld from him, Maclean, who Was head of the American Department at the Foreign Office, at the | time, may have stumbled on the fact that top secret information Was not reaching m. And this may have put him on his guard, and led. to his discovery that he was belng , watched. he Foreign Office spokes- said today that Britapn not making representg- and Maclean. about Burge Sa