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A ene ae VAL, Ms. Tolson hy Cost Mr, BoardmedfA __ “ * Ms#Ni¢hol's 4 -Mr. Belmont” “Mr, Harbo ._ 3 Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons —__ . Mr. Rosen Mr. Tanim —_- ctw . oe a Mr. Sizoo ENE Sowee oy opt Mr. Winterrowd — ¢ ae - aan BY boop ow Bee {Pea ‘ Tele. Room ; ZL Mr. Holloman —_ 4 Miss Gandy (MACLEAN~BURGESS ) _ si “THE CHILLING,-CLOAK AND DAGGER STORY OF BRITISH TRAITORS DONAL MACLEAN AND GUY BURGESS SERVED AT LEAST ONE GOOD PUROTSE, GOUFRNMENT OFFZCIALS SAID, IT FORCED AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE T* SWYTLY PLUG SECURITY GAPS USED SO SHAMELESSLY BY THE TWO SPIES FOR SCMTET RUSSTA BEFORE THEY VANISHED ON MAY 25, 1954. “p83 THE MEASURES TAKEN HAVE NEVER BEEN FULLY DISCLOSED BUT IT IS KNOWN Ff HE U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, it HE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LOST ve 44 NO TIME GOING INTO ACTIONS —-—--- -- ‘ FOR THEIR PART, THE BRITISH ORDERED MORE EXTENSIVE SECURITY SCREENINGS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THEIR FOREIGN SERVICE CORPS AND, PRESUMABLY, INVOKED TIGHTER SECURITY PRECAUTICNS* GENERALLY, oT" | AMERICAN OFFICIALS WERE NOT SURPRISED BY THE MACLEAN-BURGESS WHITE PAPER WHICH THE BRITISH RELEASED FRIDAY. THEY HAD KNOWN ITS CONTENTS FOR MANY MONTHS AND HAD LONG SINCE SET UP TIGHTER PRECAUTIONS, BUT NONE WOULD COMMENT FOR PUBLICATION. THE MACLEAN-BURGESS AFFAIR JUMPED BACK INTO THE LIMELIGHT SUDDENLY WHEN VLADIMIR PETROV, FORMER TOP AGENT OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE (MVD) IN AUSTRALIA, WROTE WHAT PURPORTED TO BE THE TRUE STORY OF THE MACLEAN-BURGESS DEFECTION, PETROV HIMSELF DEFECTED IN APRIL, 1354, % Ler AND EXPOSED SOME OF THE WORLDWIDE MACHINATIONS OF THE SOVIET ESPIONAG SYSTEM. eae Aa pat ROW CONFIRMED WHAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS MAD L@NG MEOORBEE HAD REMAJNED GRIMLY SILENT ABCUT -- THAT MACLEAN, WHE Hye ctl DARK TNE CHANCERY OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY HERE IN 1Saa-aa, Pap eagy Reerss ro U.S. SECRETS AND HAD A PASS TO THE PRIVILEGED SANCTUM OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, go oe BURGESS LATER SERVED HERE AS SECOND SECRETARY SF THE EMBAssy, YE ALSO WAS PRIVY TO SOME SECRETS, MAINLY [INVOLVING KOREAN POLICY. BUT HE DID NOT SHARE MACLEAN'S STATURE IN HIGH-LEVEL ECHELONS, | PETROV TOLD HIS STORY IN A COPYRIGHTED DISPATCH IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT AND IN A LONDON NEWSPAPER, THE ¥ BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS WAS IMMEDIATELY THROWN INTO TURMOIL WITH Zu DEMANDS THE GOVERNMENT. EXPLAIN WHY MACLEAN AND BURGESS WERE ALLowed 4 TO FLEE BEHIND THE TRON CURTAIN WHEN THEY WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION * - FOR TREASON, THE WHITE PAPER WAS ISSUED FRIDAY AS A RESULT. IT HINTED THAT BRITISH SECURITY MEASURES HAD SEEN SO LAX THAT THE MERE FACT THAT MACLEAN'S WIFE WAS PREGNANT HAD DELAYED HIS ARREST. IT ALSO BROUGHT OUT THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A "THIRD" PERSON IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE CORPS WHO KNEW OF THE MACLEAN-BURGESS INQUIRY AND TIPPED THEM OFF IN TIME FOR THEM TO FLEE, \ oe “AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE APPARENTLY WAS ENTIRELY IGNORANT OF THE MACLEAN-BURGESS OPERATIONS HERE, ELSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SWIFT CLAMODOWN, THEY COULD NOT HAVE ARRESTED EITHER OFFICIAL BECAUSE O} DIMLOMATEIC IMMUNITY, BUT THEY COULD HAVE BRANDED THEM PERSONA NON GRATA AND DEMANDED THETR INSTANT RECALL, WITH ARREST SURE TO FOLLOW. HIS RULE HAS BEEN FOLLOWED RIGIDLY WHEN DIPLOMATS OF RUSSTAN oe SATELLITES HERE HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED OFF THE SECURITY RESERVATION, je on at bone. ia sf fae a jane O74 PALL aT or 4 9 105 G notice: | — a CT 12 10 fy soniwe DOW SIT We OITV IGE PR me SAAR nN NR A re * rs ‘os nM we Ba on * Re lo eB we Mp mot mA * - . Fe ot we HOE 7 ae . . : rr ae Mone . ame ae ke we t a ~ ON, sof earl ar :