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Mepapige a a nee are Aen ME ORR Po Sg SO CP cae A Rg AE TE tes wr I ‘ collaborating on an article for @ national magazine in the middle 1930's. eens Cee e rane FOR RELEASE IN AFTER ‘ON NEWSPAPERS OF MONDAY, F) a i987 FROM THE SENATE intC at SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE Y - Clg WASHINGTON, D,C,--The British government received tntorn ich aw * early as 1939 that a Communist agent of the general description of Donald MacLean had infiltrated the Foreign Office, Senator James ©. Eastiand (D- Mies.) chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, said today, ’ The original information came from a former Soviet intelligence officer who did not know MacLean by name, but described him as a "young Scotsman who played around in the artistic world. " MacLean and Guy bu BES, another young officer in the Foreign Service, fled England in 1951. Both are reportedly in Moscow ag advisers on Anglo- . American affairs to the Soviet Government. Each had served two tours of duty in Wachi:gton, D,C., with the British Embassy. /iackean recently was interviewed by a British newsman In Moscow. 4 yy Senator Eastland said the incident is described in the latest publication of the subcommittee, Part 28 of Scope of Sovict Activity in the United States. ‘The publication also contains the te stimony of Slowodin Draskovich and Bogdan Raditea, who gave information on Tito's Communist government in ee Yugoslavia, ; . The former Soviet intelligence officer, General Walter Krivitsky, Levine said in his testimony that General Kriviteky told him thet while serving as an intelligence agent in Paris he was informed that the Commutas had spent $200, 000 to infiltrate two men in key positions in Great Britain, ° One of them, a man named King, he said, was in the code room of the Impertal Council. The other was the young Scotsman in the Foreign Office. When war broke out in 1939, Levine said he felt justified because of the Hitler-Stalin alliance in breaking Krivitsky's confidence. Levine went to the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian. He sald Lothian was skeptical at first, but decided to foliow through since Levine Nid come with an introduction from the / ~