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N'T SAC SPY “He would have been suspicious.” D ON ALD Mac- By lear Was SUS-. pecied of spying for ‘Russia while he was|full access to docu- head of the Ameri- AS T understand. will | ea Department Of {be revealed in a White ihe Foreign Office Paper on. Maclean and Guy WILLIAM GREIG Burgess. the diplomats. wha But —he was allowed | vanished behind the Tren iq continue his Job with | Curtain The White Paper—toe be published in a lew days— ll show that the Foreign fice has this explanation aq to. why ib nedher re- ved nor suspended Mac- leBn: TO HAVE DONE §O WOULD HAVE ARGUS- ED SUSPICION AND [ PUT HIM ON Bis re eee i> SARI R a LB, eee ‘ The White Paper whi tell, at last. all that the Foreign Office knows abou! the disappearance of Maclean and Burgess. Tt will bring a demand trom MPs for a full de- Gate ot, the “ Burgess and Maclean affair.” The Foreign Office ts not anxious for a debate. lis grounds are ihat a debate might embarrass ws it, our relations with ther cauntries. he announcement that the White Paper is to be|h peblished was made by the -Féreign Office Vesterday. It? will reveal 4 sensa- tional story of te spy acti- yities of the two men. it will say that decu- ments were taken by gthem from the Foreign Cf London, phclographes then returfied withoud any- one being ‘aware. of it The same thing *may ‘have been done by them in Britain's embassies mm ; Cairo and Washington. But evidence here ts not positive. The Foreipn Ofice, while keeping silent after the disappearance of the two men, was fairiy well informed of what had happened.” Maciean, then tnigty- eight, and Burgess, 40 he had worked in Britain's Washington Embassy — vanished in May, 1951. After more than four years. the Foreign Office an Sunday made its first. posi- tive statements about their disappearance, confirming that they had been Saviet spies and had gene behind the Iron Curtain. The statements followed publication of a newspaper article by Viadimir Petrov former Soviet spy chie?, who fled from Russia's Embassy in. Canberra, Aus- tralia’s: capital, Alihouga Maclean, before his fight, was suspected as & spy, Burgess never wes. But RE, tec, was ince investigation because pf is general conduct atd because Of doubts as to His Suitabiily fer Foreign Service. re pny re a