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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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Many. MP.s aré in the mood’to Insist ‘on sweep-_
fing investigations, followed bya’ report” to.,reass a
= the public. The Government has resolved to take the |.
* jine that all Necessary. action has already been taken. |- ~
BURGESS POO foe ensition Jeaders Prommse Jo
SPY. SAYS M.P.leieiee, ae
Foreign Office recruitment and
front benches | from
ester McNeill, MPs Minister/t the embarrassment of defeat: >
‘State during the - Labour! 4 tne Government. will
Gov ent what behead on ot} make the issue one of confidence| :
Burgess and Maclean. He said|i? Sir Anthony Ederr—who was
Foreign Secretary during most
he did not know Maclean but he of the period “since the twol
‘Was “Burgess a good apy thent by the argument that there is a
Ma McNeill answered: danger »:of “ hysteria an about
wap not.a part of his nature af! security:.which ‘could :
. . alll He was: not systematic orf climate ’: for, «BBeCarth
ar disdreet. I should not imagine it] Britain.
oo wadlikely that he was a depend
table ible spy of a t high rank,” py, ..
’ Both sides of the House’.#re
Involved in responsibility “for
what has happened. The per-
sonal behaviour of the two spies,
the ‘security ‘ inquiries about
them and heir: disappearance
occurred © while” abour
government was, in. power, ver
Most | of ":the’! parllamentary
replies now ‘meee ed as inade-
quate or misleading were given
by, Conservative: Ministers, -:
‘Tee de! probable that Labour
will table a motion on the idea
of an inquiry into Forelgn Office
matters... Back-benchers” are
likely to want a second inquiry
~—into the security, organis tions
their methods’ # ch 2 Pg
F ni‘ particular, there wilfbe al. .
‘strpng demand ‘for infornjation . ‘
ta at the aa Ad man” wh¢ may
have ‘tipped -Burgess*and, Ma
lean’ “that-théey*were"in dangers
i EADERS on “both: front benches: ia i the’ Coindone ee sunde?
heavy pressuré from their back-benchers during the next four. weékp’
‘ to.change their present attitude tothe Burgess-Maclean‘affairye “srty
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