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‘D{PLOMAT SPIE Continged from P. 1, Col. 6) bee established by the Royal Com-, muisgion. He gave a lot of informp- lion to the security authorities. Was Buroess under suspicion. for) sceurity reasons? i | Burgess was not directly under} investightion for segurity and! loyalty, but his general conduct. had been unsatisfactory and he had been suspended. ; Was Maclean under suspicion fort security reasons, and jor Rew * fong? ad Definite suspicion for security ‘reasons had fallen on Maclean by! April, 1951. [Maclean disappeared the. following month, ! ; After April. 1951, steps were Laken ‘to ensure that exceptionally sceret | [ualerial did not reach Maclean. He Was dul removed becatise of the necessity for continuing the investi- gation, Hog is tf that Maclean was allowed to: get ainay? There were no powers to stop Mge- lean leaving Use country. Jt will pe aAppueciated that a 24-hours’ suryail- lanc® of any suspecl cannot easty be reconciled wilh the requirem ihat® his suspicions should mot be [ [arouse ‘CONTACT “NOT HERE” Rate Beda Diszta i(UPOMaty LSape WO Petrov states that miatcriat ibas passed to a Russian contact at the Saviet Embassy in London. Is this contact stilt flere? The contact is not still here. The spoxesman refused lo answer lany other questions about the Seviet ‘contact, but it is clear that. he would fave left the country as fasi as he could as soon as the disappearance ‘of Maclean and Burress iknown. it is probable that Maclean and Burgess each hact different cun- facts al the Soviel Embassy. |\Do the British authorities know whee happened to Maclean and “Burgess after they reached | St. Maio? Not in detail. We believe their roule through the Tron Curtain lay “throtligh. Caechoshivakia, (Where gre Maclean ' owe. fr. Petrov has said they are ngar ‘Mdscow, We have no direct cqn- jlirdialion. of this. id Burgess -to the Russians was from doeu- became “Maclean took @ camera into the | \ i i ‘|nition would be required for Mac- 4 i i i a ait for White Paper” spqkesman said they awhit publication. af iPaper. had bi the who disappeared from Geneva in ; September, 1953: and another about whether steps had been taken to ideal with Ebose in this country associated in any way with. the espionage activities df Maclean and Burgess. Final approyal. to. the texs§ of the White Paper will presumably be elven by Cabinet Ministers in the next day or two, The Maclean and Burgess case has long since ceased to be one which concerned the Foreign Office alone. The Govist. Embassy in Londan case yesterday. i ‘The matter is unlikely to be raised laficially between Britain and Russia, In the first piace. Britain has no extradition treaty with ;Russia. In any case, to ask for the radition of Burgess and Maclean mipht lead Russia to ask forythe } exfradition of Mr. Petroy and shme ot (he other numerous. Russians. who thake taken. political asylum} in | BB ‘tish territory. _ TAMERA USE BY MACLEAN O8PrFICIALsS’ THEORY Daily Telegraph Reparler Security olficers belleve that some of the information. passed ments in bulky files which it would not have been possible toi take out of the Foreign Office. building. It is believed that: Foreign Office to photagraph ithe: papers, | i Tnauiries have beetr made toy establish whether Maclean was ever seen in the building with 4 camera or whether he was known ta possess one. The type used would probably have beén a 35mm. because the roll of film used. in this camera can hold a large number of negatives: ‘The Ppossibihty that the camera was supplied by the Soviet contact has nov been overlooked, Because the work of photographing doc ments would Have to be done sur. repliligusiv a jens e@ivine high defi- lean would have. littte opportunity Lo arrange special lightiog: ‘By using this method the amount fot information which Maclean eauld nave carried trom the building with- arousing suspicion would be cop: sicprabie, It would have the ade Vaiblapge also bf preventing arly seciet papers being missing from proper place for lunger thao 1 iheak the time taken to photograph, LEER eneeeeneeee answer to other guestions,| the ter E white : The unanswered questions’ lincluded one about Mrs. Maclean. ' had no comment te make on the ROREIGN OFFICE “TIMIDITY ” AUSTRALIAN VIEW SYDNEY. Tuesday, ' The Sydney Morning Herald. which is publishing the statements of Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet diplomat, to-clay criticised the British Foreign Offce for “its long delay? in acimiitting that. Burgess and Maclean. the missing diptomate, had been long-term Soviel spies. An editorial said: “rhe Foreign Office is general cansidered to be a repository of dip- letmatic wisdem, of shrewdness and awareness, On this particular matter it Ras shown meéreiy timidity and | evasion. ; over what went on in our (External Affairs) department or its fringes. How much more reason is there for British astonishment and anger that two spies had for so.long a‘ free ga’: ix: ate institution whose top secrets: 30. closely affect the freedom of many nations.” ' = “drovie " thal the defee- . Petrov and the s¢b- Commissiqn whjct revealed ao “Vpry eaveen them sericus. situation.’ in the Australfan ‘Department should have led tefan offizial British acknowledgment of an “even more damaging situation: rexisling. in the Foreign Giice’— ‘Reuter, a a 2a 4 M.P.s LIKELY TO ay SD DEBATE | “Ry Gur Political Correspe There are likely to be demands tori a_debate on the White Paper on the! Maclean and Burgess affair when Parliament reassenibles. on Oct. 25. | Yesterday Col. Lipton. Socialist! |MLP. for Brixton, pul down a House tof Commons question. for Sir Anthony Eden, asking for the appointment of a Select Committee ta investigate the-disappearance of the two diplomats and the general jelficiency of Civil Service security! jarrangements. i NO NEWS IN MOSCOW he British Embassy in Mosepw/ st@ied yesterday that ib hacl no gn. fofnation whatever on the whgre- abputs of Maclean and Biyppss, Nq official Soviel source has paadmitled krnowiig anything ai the missing diplomats.—A.P. i i "There is cause [or public concern,- 4