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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14

85 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 85 pages OCR'd
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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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