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I woes tine they were in Te aud he in bachelor quarters in Vasnington, Their twa sens were born in New York, Mac. lean drank heavily fronr time to the police or his superiors. From Woeskivgtoa he wos set fo Cetra as Counsclar ef bussy, another wrasival @ppotul- ymeent for a omen sa your. La thet potnt lus progeess hei been steadily upward, Shortly, the dik reelion changed. | ” * El ACLEAN went te Caive in 2048 and friends in London soon began te hear disquieting stories of Bis Behavior. It was said that Cairo and its squalor depressed him after the exeite- pients of postwar Washineton End that he decided to resolve his inner conflicts with alechol. dlis decision brought a muonber Lot suprising results, He broke ; Up a eauple of diplomatic partics -by wild behavior, he was re- strained in the act of choking his wife to death, he grabbed a rifte from a sentry and panicked a crowd by waving it wildly, At all these times he wag, of course, drunk, The honiosexnal Mr. Hyde was in comniand. Through all these eseapades the embassy exhibited a sorf of embarrassed taleranee, bul when he broke into the apartment af a woman ciyploye of the American Embassy darlag her drank all her iquor and smashed her furniture, ik was decided tleat | thines had gone far enourh. fc was declared to have suft fered a nervous breakdown aud town back to Eneland. His wife nd ecbildren went to Spain for a esi. This was in early 1950, Tn. Lendom he was given six nonths ta eet well and he took his trebles te a dady alrist, micatiwhile contimzing his avnking. Vis appearance ai ikis Biase was said to have heen frightening. Wis face was Hvid yellow and he oked as though he ynight have spent the wight siltitg im a tunuel. His hands shook, A friend leaving a night club got inte a oeah and fot Maclean. asleep of the figay. Hs wae outrimed by boing awakened. Said he hid hired the bedream fer the night. The peychlatrist's veporte bes ; time ware cheery in the fall ane the Foreign Office, acting in tls on mysterions “aomy, derided tea lake him beck. On Nov. #, 1959, | aflery wk uniusielly boary night, fie showed up for werk as head af the Asneriean Division. wi iPfie fob is nob quite as imipor- “tant as jt sounds and has mostly : United States, <he fm New Yorle j tinte but get in no ireuble with | absenee, | psyehi- 7 t | :dule evidence that certain docat-: : : rN ARON ithe prospective birth of hiv third Thightly freational. He slept one todo with the vewiine tr teccouske | hetwern nations therteh Maclean had constant necess to confidens al documents, At this period Tre scemed very concermmed about the Korean War, whieh he considered senscless. sitting up late over a hottle, he | one asked a fetend, “What would Boba y you do if Ll tetd you T was a Com- runist agent? Well, Yam. Go on, Report me.” The friend, of course, thotght he was jeking, At another time he referred to himself ad “the British Hiss.’ ‘this, too, was dismissed ag per- siflare. Burress, on the other and, once merely sat down through the national anther and was protipily flattened. Maclean himself once floored an old friend for defending Whittaker Chambers. Ne? Began fo Close =< Around Macleen Maclean had beught a howe far out fn the country in the he- ltef that. fe away fromthe flesh- pots would be helpful. Mis. Maclean became vreenant avain. Her husband's problems werd ag difficult as ever. At nhowk that time the pondei ove Foreign Office atet wag be-: ginning to cluse around Macteci, i fn 1949 there hed been trrefitt : ee re Oe alerts hed been delfvered to che! Lussians several qeiys before, | By the spring of WST the sus. ! peels bad been recured te three and one of then was Maclean. Burgess, whom he apparentiy had not seen. singe they were. in col- lege, was in no way implicated, | England being England, there was no move to arrest Maclean uulit the evidenee wag in linnd, Foreign Office aventsy wanted to search his heme bur they were until the whele farily was absent. * * * CRING May these two sirange piew, Maclean and Buitgess, were both in Lenden and it now sceenia eértain that they were in eanstant conmuinieation, Bet were deinking constantly and Maclean's drunken conduet was might on a frtend’s doormat. On Friday, May 25, which was Maclean's 38th biuthday, foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison gave permission te Foreign Oifice agents te questign Maclean, Pre- viously he had been reluetant beeause of fear of arousing Maclean's suspiciass and he was hoping to trap hin with a coni- promising docunient, The aques- Toning abowewe, bad to be pt over ic Monday because Maclean Ne ¥. DAILY NEWS 68-59 PES pp [ cont, pa had arranged te take Saturcey morning cif, Two friends, a wan und 74 wife, wha had w bivtlivia tunel with Maclean that Pukiav, sal later that he had anyihine the afr of a man abet te his wative dand ferever. They eysters and chanrpayue one restaurant in Soke, thes meved onto another fer lench. Maclenc'e 4h, eonversalion never lawl beet yoore briliant, his friends said, and he seemed at ease and hapry, te was partionivily elsted abeuk chit. On that Peiday afteshecn Bure eess wire said io have wived & telephone cai that avid hia jgreathy. Tk is maw thought as have corte Trom My oi knew. Teargess left jinbre bonght sasse shirts anid fo daver siuberss g car and headed for 3 heme in Tatstield, Suvirexv. Mysy Malena later fecaied that her husband bi relurned aout & half hour before his frtend “Reger Styles? denve up. a Phe three of thear line 4 snd Macleaw Inter luid aivowiing fa. her Stas and. “Styles” were pding te have te make au overnight trip ie ree ea friend bub that he wouki net be away rndre than a day. fle leak u dressing gown and his brief ease und be end “Styles” arave south toward the Charin They were not io seé Baplind again. a bayer at hod be OWhaot secrets did Enrgess and Maclean take ati them ja thetr Weht to the Reds? Were they the reason Communist China seemed able ta diving U_.S. sfrategy in Korea? And how much did Mrs, tHacleana know of her husband's hiddva hfe? Continue this rare atory ia next Sunday's Nkwekp