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rilish Assert Letter iO ifhkALICALL Reject ‘Inference’ He Got U.S. Secrets From Contact in Cairo Embassy By Don Cook From the Herald Trifune Aurea () 1958, New York fierdld Tribune Ine, LONDON. Feb. 14.—The Foreign Office toni geht. in a statement on thP “Cairo Ietler.” denied that ther§ is anythin & “to juslify the infer- empe imal ((Donald D.S-Maclean was receiving secret cdipumentis from = contart in the : m & contact in the “Jesus Embassy in Cairo,” TY as Confirming ihe discovery in the} British Embassy library in Cairo, he spokesman said that the con- tents Of the letter probably had not neen communicated ta American intelligence authorities, since it was judged here to be of insufficient significance, The report of the discovery of the letter was carried in today’s New York Herald Tribune on the basis of information obtained in Cant shartiy after it was found. The le ler had been under security a ~—_ sification and check ever since, The Foreign Office said: “No letter addressed to Donald Maclean has been found. A letter was found dated June 7, 1951, writ- tef from an address in the United States to a third person, clearly not Mpclean, The sentence in question [rhentioned in the New York Herald Tribune story] read: ‘Donal is playing very cautiously about the David's replacement chapp awd has not decided what he is like,’ | “The letter also mentions Donald Maclean's recent disappearance. which at the time of writing had | just been made public, "There is nothing in the letter to justify the inference that Mac- lean was receiving secret United Stales documenis from a: ‘foutact in the American Embassy itt Cairo, or that its author wag engaged in spionage.” The Foreign Office did not re- lease the full text of the letter, or names or details of the author or addressee. Eariler in the day, of- ficial comment was to the effec nat the letter was under securit amination and that “at first sigh the letter does not appear to be Sensational or as interesting a. as been represented,” ee ee United States | 5. Kye | Story o | Maciean Seeks Information On ‘Cairo Letter’ From lhe Herald Tribune Bureau @ 1856. New Yerk Herald Tribune, Inc, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—A State Depariment spokesman said today that the United States was “investi- nting” reports of a mysterious “Cairo letter” allegedly linking Brit- n’s turncoat diplomat, Donald Maclean, in spy activilies with a miact in the American Emipassy in Cairo in 1950. Department spokesman Lipcoin White said he could neither[ con- firm nor deny the reports. At the moment, he said, the department has “absolutely nothing” on them. Informants said the. American investigation is under way and ranges from Washington to Cairo. They said the department has sent cablegrams of inquiry to American Embassies in Cairo and London and that employees in the depart- rent here axho were associated with the Embassy in Cairo four lo six years ago are being asked to provide whatefer assistance they can. Information also is being sought frm the British, Embassy here and irpbm other United States govern- mt agencies in Washington] in- efuding the Central Intelligence Rency anid whe Federal Bureay of Investigation. _—— Oe te og CRAP atid Mar Pe ee a eS Mr, Mi. a cg caer ceeece presage ‘ *