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hy 1M aclean’s S Than Rrit oe ee ee i oe oe London Gunday Times A2 LONDON, Oct. 7—A se eret intelligence report which the Sunday Times tracked down in Washing- ton in the course of its in- vestigations into the Philby the acy makes {it clear a British government aséser- tions since 1951, Donald Maclean had = arcess to every crucial Anglo-Ameri- can policy decision at the height of the Cold War. The report was compiled partment intelligence offi- eers in an attempt to assess For the first time, the re- port reveais the magnitude of Maclean's espionage achievements. It is also the first evi- dence’ from official files 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. intelli- Hence report reveals that Maclean had knowledge of secret Anglo-American ex- changes on the North At- lantic pact, the Korean War and the Japanese peace treaty.” It also shows, for instance, that Maclean had full knowl- edge of the critical Ameri- ean determination te “lo- éalize the conflict,” and therefore of its decision not to allow the United Nitions forces under Gen. MacaArth- ur to carry the war against the Chinese coast. Both MacArthur and his chief of intelligence, Gen. Charles Willoughby, were cerfain at whe time that this - infoFmatros had been passed TT —— ee Reo ne | contrary to repeated in 1956 by U.S. ‘State De- _ the damage dane by Mac--”: lean and Guy D. Burgess, . who fled with him in 1951. C ° f7 LL to the Russians. Just before he died, MacArthur com- plained that the Chinese not only knew of this policy de- cision but “alt our strategie troop movements.” Until now it 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 Mus- sians only marginal atomic secrets. He saw these in the course of his duties as U.K. secretary of the combined policy committee—the body set up to regulate the Anglo- o « a fa ~ e a) "took their secrets to Mosegm in "D G UY ROARGESS. Aa potatoe ey di cance Gi 4 is Aa circum- stances of 1947 have to 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- ium, in an attempt to corner all the known resources. Maclean was in a position to tell the Russians every de- , tail of .these vital ‘Regotia- tions. The revelations provide the first! credible expiana- tion of the necessity that American exchange of scien drove the master- -Spy Harold tific information on the Satormic program. , This information was vital enough, the report reveals. Maclean was able to telt the Russians “‘the estimates made at that time of urani- um ore supply available to the three governments— Britain, America, Canada. To appreciate ao and §He was Russia’s most im Philby to risking, and in the event Wrecking, his whole espionage career, to tip off Maclean before the British security services could Peach him. Maclean was not, as previ- ous explanations have sug- gested, simply an old friend. | portant known diplomatic y in the cold war ¥ MBL PN LLa-A NOT NOT RECORDE D AZ uci LV? 1967 A arn - Collahen co Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan A“ Tavel , Trotter Tele. Room Hoimes The Washington Post mite Times Herald _ ALE, aA 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 The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wail Street Journal The National Observer People’s World OCT 8 ike a 1967 Date eX =!