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a wy eke a far Weapons To Sever Tie Reuters’ LONDON, Feb. 12—Russia’s presentation of Burgess and Maclean yesterday was staged to drive a wedge between the United States and Britain and to try-to prove that the West is perpetuating the cold war, highly placed British officials said tonight. _At the same time, both Con- taervative : and Labor. Party mem- bers of Parliament announced a campaign to try to make the Foreign Office reveal more an bout the ex-diplomats, * Maclean and Guy Bur- ' Used to _ DIPLOMATS—F r. Pq. i “the recent Bulganin letters to “ President Eisenhower. [Both Maclean and Burgess are “trained diplomats. Maclean par- in view of their statement the ticularly is well-equipped ia: advise the Russians. The London Sunday Times noted that ‘the’ most striking example was (Mar- shal Premier Nikolai) Bulganin’s letter to President Eisenhower on disarmament Jast summer. The Jast two Bulganin letters to President Eisenhower (on _ friendship treaties) ... were also ' thought to” bear the Maclean imprint.”] The political pressure on the Foreign office will begin Mon- day in the House of Commons, + When at least three MPs will fire pointed questions at Govy- ernment Ménisters. . Labori ol, Marcus Lipton td he 3hught the Burgess- Jaclean ‘st®tement made a Gov- q ronment White Paper on the 50 FEBL7 1996 Ce PERE A mae ge, ase, - ‘last September, look ¢ Tolson Nichols Boardman ae? - Belmont Mason oa Parsons Roses Tamm Nease Vinterrowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy —____.. s of Britain and U.S. gess, who vanished behind the;Maclean staiement aimed ‘be iron Curtain in 1951. take pressure off Soviet The highly placed officials|Premier Nikolai Bulganin and here said that in its timing of/Communist Party Chief Nikita | the ex-diplomats’ reappearance|Khrushchev when they visit the Kremlin had - two main|Britain in April, Reporters un- objectives: doubtedly would have fired 1. To sow discord between questions at them about the London and Washington. -|missing diplomats. 2. To woo both Communist] [The United Press reported bloc and neutral nations to the) from London that some Britona sneculatad that Burgess and belief that it is the West which"? Maclean may have used their is the aggressor in the cold skill and knowledge of Anglo- pe Many [diplomatic observers American policy to. ghost-writ V7 here alsd felt that the Rurgess-| See DIPLOMATS, Pe. 6, Col, AL ‘Lost? ‘Diplomats Seen aft oS @ NOT RECORDED | 126 FEB 16 i956 Disrupt Allies - |“even a bigger insult to in- ;telligence than i thought it atjno comment. 7 the time.” : Burgess and Maciean tonight; Conservative Capt. Henry; were still mystery men, There; Kerby declared, “I hope that lis no clue as to where they went} after they left the Ae | in all Soviet papers today with , as Oe Wash. Post and - Times Herald aay / Foreign Office will at Jong last;ents yesterday and walked aw give the British people the fulljin the Moscow fog, Weila and unvarnished truth about Said. . this grim and unsavoury scan-t-~~ ~~" —----— Wash. News dal,” Wash. Star Reuters correspondent Sid-| , ney Weiland reported from’ N.Y. Herald Moscow that diplomats there Tribune believe Khrushchev gave the or-: N. Y. Mirror der for. the dramatic reappear:! te ance of Burgess and Maclean. They feel that the Burgess-. Maclean statement, handed toj - Weiland, another British gorre'| spondent and two Soviet report ers yesterday, might have been intended to impress the Rus- sian people by suggesting that there were doubts and appre. hensions even in the British Foreign Office about United: States policy. The statement was puesto N. Y. Daily News __ Baily Worker The Worker New Leader Date Ea “DELETED COPY SST OLB pRac. Qouokcd BY LETTER JUN 22 1976 4 20 nore ard Le AMAT spy gt ¥. wert oe eel Roan ee + PER fo. eyucsd, ERD. te see we ee BANA in, ees wh Aa. “sl ae pe Romb han ay ~s * ae ae ergs Cg Tee ~ 2 meee ees T