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0-19 (Rev. 129-66) tl i i i oy Mac lean’s Spy ing | More Vital! Thin British Have Admitted ‘London sunday Times ~ “Y ANKON ee SL, . cret intelligence report which the Sunday Times tracked down in. Washing- : ton in the course of its in- 4 pe ta A BE) vestigations into the Philby - conspiracy makes it clear that, contrary to repeated British government asser- tions since 1951, Donald Maclean had access to every crucial Angio-Ameri- ean policy deécision height of “the Cold War. /The report was compiled: in 1956 by U.S. State De- partment intelligence offi- cers in an attempt to assess the damage done by Mac- lean and Guy D. Burgess | “who fled with him in 1951... For the first time, the re- - pogt reveals the magnitude of \Maclean's espionage achjevements. it is also the first evi-: dence from official files f that the British government has been consistently mis- leading in its statements on Maclean’s duties and the type of material to which he had access. In fact, the U.S. gence report reveals that Maclean had knowledge of secret Anglo-American ex- changes on the North At- lantie pact, the Korean War and the treaty.” It also shows, for instance, that Maclean had full knowl- edge of the critical Ameri-| *lo- and ean determination te’ calize the conflict,” “ intelll- : * therefore of its decision not _ to allow the United Nuitions forces under Gen, Macarth- | ur to carry the war against the Chinese coast. — ‘ Both MacArthur and his chfef: of intelligence, Gen. Chirles Willefghby, were cerfnin at the me that this info ation ha been passed Sl. debate vie oe cpl eS C _DONALD MACLEAN » 7 ++ took thelr F secrets to Moscow in 1951 to the Russians. Just before - he died, MacArthur com-- plained that the Chinese not only knew of this policy de-. cision but “all our Strategic troop mcvements.” ; Until now ft has generally been believed that Maclean, first-secretary in the British . Embassy in Washington and later head of the American . Department in the Foreign Office, passed to the Rus- sians only marginal atomic secrets He saw “these in the Japanese peace’. course lof his duties as U-K.- . oo :V,seeretary of the combined - ‘policy committee—the body. set up fo regulate the Anglo-— American exchange of scien- tifie information on , the atomic program. . This :nformation was vital enough, the revort reveals. Maclean was able to tell. ‘the Russians “‘the estimates. made at that time of urani- um ore supply available to the three governments— Britain, America, nd i Canada. , To appreciate the signifi: wee we BRO B37 aA 2 if a — S002 € " GUY BURGES 1 cance * of this the ci um- stances of 1947 have io be recalled. In the early post- war years the world supply of uranium was thought to be limited. The West there- . fore embarked, in extreme secrecy upon a program of . “premptive buying” of uran- jum, in an attempt to corner all the known resources. ’ Maclean was in a position to tell the Russians every de- tail of these vital negotia- . tions... The “Fevelations - provide the first credible explana- tion of the necessity that drove the master-spy Harold -’ Philby to risking, and in the . event wrecking, his whole ‘espionage career, to tip off. .Maclean before the British : security services could reach him.” - 2 . Maciean was not, as previ- . ous explanations have sug- | gested, simply an old friend. He was Russia’s most jjim- * portant known eat Bae 4s : 22-44 a ‘py in the cold war years, cat a NOT, (ih hie 47 OCT 16 1967 Tolson DeLoach Mohr Wic Cosber Callahan Conrad Felt Gale: Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald _fe2k The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) ____ _ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times World Journal Tribune (New York) The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World sCObie S Word Date afefey wee eee