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Th Pe 4 al ns Nien ee ee i oe we ' - yjice Memon andund © ontrev stavEs GOVERNMENT, tame De : tee oe PHB ge Ft wr, Toleon we Me parm qune 8, 2952 - ° , . ¥ | > - Sea ; sacle * sonjacts § powaLD D, Mac LEAy - “SS V4 bie cee ee z - eee ome te ore me 7 ot a ee 2 : ‘ > , eee ao rn ae wo ee - eea = Filiiom Borden, executive dtrector af the Jotat Con- mittee on Atomic Energy, advised me oonfidentially that tn the early daya of the Mmhattan Engineering Dietrict there was a combined poltcy committee represented by tadividuals deat gnated by the British, Conadtan and U. &. governnenta. faite coustittes , a — "had the reaponstbility of ftztng allocations of srantua ores, tii going tnto the Jotnt acttutties of the Manhattan Engineering . “ . tetrict and subsequently of passing upon and handitng the ez- .: - change of technical tnfornatton, The combined policy coantttee onary) Whed & secretariat composed of one representative of each of the —- ~ . jjenres countries. From April 1947 until July 2948, MacLean ‘ ee the British member of the secretariat, LR ds such, Maclean had detailed snformatton on the " | Lal, 4 . | Gllocotion af ores, atonie production and the exchanoe of tech- . eel aeai? | v nical tnformatian trat 2 ication ~~" e a conference tn 1947 68 @ visitor, whize the British delegate Ct Br. FlIause Fuchs. —— sais coe ne ee _ Borden told me that the Jotnt Committee Aad requested AEC to prepare an estinate of how much knowledge MacLean coulé Uinave Red. He G180-told me confidentially that one ectentist fetinately associated with the atomic project has atated that tf M@helesn were @ apy during the days when he woe connected with the secretartct he could Asve hod access to considerable {ne vs formation; Aowever, the matter te now problematical as to how. ~: . we" MacLean hod inasmuch as he was not a technical aan, . wot The thought occurs to me that tt might be well_for . ‘se our Itateon to make a routine Anguiry ct the Atoate Energy - on Sor any information they might have of any gtogte . { snformation which was mode available to MocLean. . ; a _, Zt thanked Borden for the taforastto ‘’ - + , 4. . ¢ ; ’ . ; Fei any | ot ete i) a het a on a A a kh oes Ck ee ee ener haem OER RNNNN NCCE rang TS sna mewerpae coe