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r a 5 " ___, MacArthur Recalls Information Leak 2 — . i “What may well have triggered my removal was my recsine> mendation that a treason trial be initiated to break up a spy ring responsible for the purloining of my top secret reports to Wash~ - ington,” MacArthur wrote in retort te Truman, ; “My campaign plans including those of the 8th Army were transmitted daily to Washington. Gen, Walker complained con- - stantly to me that the enemy was receiving prior information of his - (Walker's) movements. Then suddenly one of my dispatches con- cerning the order of battle waa published in a Washington paper , within a few hours of its receipt. I insisted that those responsible be prosecuted, ... But the case was never processed and ] was . shortly relieved of my command. ; “It was not until the recent exposure of the British spies, Burgess and Maclean, that the true facts began to unfold.” What-was this phase of the anti-American spy plot which . . ; Truman cautiously akips over in his historical (7) recital? “os ~ Well, the general fills in the gaps: ’ . “These men (Burgess and Maclean) with access te secret files were undoubtedly links in the chain to our enemy in Korea through ‘Peiping by way of Moscow. I believe that my demand that this situation be exposed, coming after the Alger Hiss and the Harry Dexter White scandals, caused the deepest resentment and that it ol probably was branded a move to embarrass the administration.” Red Leader Boasted of Advance Dope On top of this is the published report in direct quotes from the : ; commander in chief of the Red China armies which entered Korea: he boasted that he had definite advance information that Mac- ‘ Arthur’s hands would be tied by the diplomats in the White House . State Department and the UN, “Otherwise I would not have dare risk almost certain destruction by crossing the Yalu in force. No competent commander would have been such a fool.” - As MacArthur significantly observes, “The Maclean-Burgess defection has shown how he could have known.” But these important bits of American history still do net ex- plain why the Kremlin decided at thia time to parade their. British spies. . - . . Qne guess is that more details on the Burgess-Maclean spy activities against the United States will be forthcoming next week ~ before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee, At that session, former Lt. Col. Yuri Rastvoroy of the MVD, who quit his top Com- munist post in Tokyo to gain American freedom, will go into the Red penetration of the British Foreign Office so far as it has im- periled the United States. He will bear down heavily on the impor- : tance of the Burgess-Maclean network in Washington and London. ! Another speculation is that the Kremlin is firing both barrels : of the Burgess-Maclean spy gun as a propaganda blast—one aimed 1 at impressing Red China and Asia with the Soviet charge against the “war-mongering capitalistic Anglo-Americans,” the other the olitical security of Eden's Conservative government in Britain. j ver since Eden invited Khrushchev and Bulganin for an official . , visit this spring, the British Foreign Office has been trying to find ; x some diplomatic excuse for canceling the invitation. If the invitation : is canceled now, the Kremlin can pound the propaganda drums that here is more evidence that the Colonial-minded British don’t want to live happily with the peace-loving Soviets. If Landon doesn’t can- - coec—izvitation, the Kremlin can say here is evidence that the - British government is too weak to resent.a direct insult. —— eR ee