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Q-19 ( — — -22-55) DELETED pene « CROWN RY Ens HIN #36 Moe Dy { s+ ye ears roy poms real Bhat “ eat Mystery "7 | Letter ‘Not * | . To Maclean’ LONDON, Feb. 14 1% — The’ Foreign Office tonight officially denied the existence of a letter from a mysterious American ta, Donald Maclean the renegade British diplomat who skipped to Moseow In 1951. Earlier today, Sir George’ Young, chief spokesman of the Foreign Office, had said such a letter had been discovered be-, tween the pages of a book in| the library of the British Em- bassy in Cairo, A statement issued tonight declared that a letter has in fact turned up in the British Embassy library—but it was “from an address in the United States to a third person, clear- ly not Maclean.” Some of the newspaper ac-! counts hinted that Maclean, } who fled to the Soviet Union! with fellow diplomat Guy Bur-: gess in 1951, had contacts with a spy ring involving Amer-, jeans. Gn Washington, the State De-! partment was asked if it was| ‘investigating a published re- port that the letter suggests Maclean had a contact in: the United States Embassy at’ Cairo. It replied: “We have no official information on this and are looking into the matter.”) | Tolsoa Le Do Ni€éhols-22 re ! 7 botgnen oe -§ Belnione Mason Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm ——-..-_____- Nease Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror N, Y. Daily News ___ Daily Worker The Worker New Leader