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_ 1 t We Too Lax or Too Tough on Security Riska? «3 ss { t — . Just-at a time when there has be -& flood of propaganda to the effe that we have been too tough in t execution of our security laws, there is evidence that Great Britain was much to lax in the same feld..Britain’s inner sanctum was Penetrated by ene- my agents. What the agents were able to tell the Russians hurt the United States too, ee i The reason the Soviet sples were able to penetrate the British Foret Office was that Britain's security sef} up is inadequate. In the United Stated We have suffered because of the sanjj complaint, ae _ The British suspected Donald Mac- Lean and Guy Burgess Were security “risks, Buk they couldn't do anything about it, The authorities could not even gather enough evidence to ayrest * We have suffered because of the same thing. However, we seem to have , done more about it than the British, + If this condition had been recognized . at the time we undertook with Gre! » mm Ukely we might have been able acreen out such Individuals as Dr. - Klaus Fuchs, the German-born British more §=6—- FuDject who came pver here to help am - on the project and who turned out to E a Communist spy, The British knew ‘fhe had @ Communist background but pparently decided it was meaning. OOe ee Eh en "Fuchs hag been’ ‘called the mist deadly spy of all time because he man- * aged to meak out of this country the _Mecret of making the atom‘ bomb. The ‘United States was at a great disad- vantage in diplomatic negotiations ‘with the Soviet Unfon. because of the uccessful atomic espionage. Sovie - pelentist: knew the atomic secrets; buf: we did rot. know they-knew them, Wi! , MUPposec ‘that we were at least fly . Years ah. ad of the Soviet Union in the Btomie field. © _ e 59 DEC 12 igh 7 AO vie "Montana Standard" | Butte, Montana 3g October 1, 1955 - Editor - Law Risken - HOT RECORDED 126 DEC 12 955 oa Gy LETTER SUN 21976 | 235 . = 7 ’