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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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and Communist Party Boss Ni-|suspicion had been aroused about:
kita S. Khrushchev by name.|the 44-year-old Burgess.
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candor” in shrugging off British|ported Burgess seemed to be the
attempts—as late ag a month|more dominant of the two when
ago—to irace Burgess and Mac-|the runaway diplomats showed
lean. up at the restricted news con-
Mr. Lloyd conceded the Rus-jference in a Moscow hotel ob
wlans may try to use for propa-|Saturday,
fy lganda purposes a statement is-
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i Y ‘news conference in Moscow Sat-; In Canberra, Vladimir Petrov,
vurday, but | added sharply: laced former Soviet spy chief in Aus-
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a ss Churchill entered the chamber/Australian Security Service. Times Herald
r Js in one of his rare visits since| “Burgess and Maclean worked,
5; 2 retiring as Prime Minister. for the MGB (Soviet Ministry of Wash. News
3-> «& Prime Minister Eden went|State Security) and gave much Wash. Star
gas & over to whisper to him. secret information,” said Mr. N. Y. Herald ;
a wo a. Burgess and Maclean, who|Petrov flatly. “For these reasons _t. —_—_
vanished in May, 1951, came out|the MGB arranged for Burgess Tribune
of hiding in Moscow Saturday!4nd Maclean to travel secretlyt N. Y. Mirror
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American foreign: policy in a|security authorities discovered N.Y. Daily News ——
‘Prepared, typewritten statement,/that they were Soviet-weents™’ | Daily Worker
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