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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15
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te, These: Days ee oes . 7 By ‘George Sokoleky Mc, Boardman
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es oe “ay i : Mes Nichols —____.
The Truth Must Out = — Rae
. | IT IS startling, at this date, he would have Jearned-that “HetThe?t Morrison ju the. ~ Mr Mohr
"| “to read that President Roose- the secret was already out, British Parliament has been Mr, Parsons
i" velt a Secretary of War that the Russiahs-had already ‘pressing Sir Anthony Eden to: - Me. Rosen
. Stimggnfactually believed that stolen it, that the United tell the whole truth about Me, Tame
their Manhat- ecorcgtuam States was living in a# fool's: these scoundrels. We do not Ne. Si
tan oject Fe paradise, ; know how much Eden knows, + SIZ00
“and atom ..The day may come when but the explanations: given Mr. Winterrowd
’ bomb were so thé British government will thus far are not plausible, Tele, Room
> wecret that ' pluck up the courage to tell From the American stand. Mr. Holloman
, they would Parliament what they know. point, -4t would be sufficient Mico Gandy
“Hot tell Vices ' about the crimes of Burgess if we were told that the dis aes Gandy
President - and MacLean. When they ~ cussion about the Manchurian
Harry Tru- - Were in this country as Brit--sanctuary did pase over the.
man about -it, ish officials, they were Rus- Burgess and MacLean desks,
. After Truman § sian agents. Whatever passed . but the’ truth must be re:
' held hia first Tana - between the American | and ‘ vealed in Washington or, in ~
Cabinet meet- -: Bri governments, they London, because men's . an .
Po ings ae "Frec _ Sokolsky _, had. ' * toric reputations are at stake, fe AA iy 7, fy Ad ’
dent, Stimson stayed behind to | Gen. Douglas MacArthur and just as Harry Trumfan —
(, ‘tell him what was going on, has testified that his battle wrote his memoirs, so a ee
‘: ‘Truman says in his memoirs: otders bere acs on to the these other men, oe) ”
hb “. . . Stimson told me that He investigated thoroughly. ; vearures Byadicete, ine) A A) A .
~*-Be wanted m project that wut The leak must have heen in 5 --- -—---———-—--- moO ape on
an immense p i : a , ‘
under way—a project looking Washington .| — \ i | *
to the development of a new THERE HAS BEEN some fra, .
“, explosive of almost unbeliey-. speculation that the leak was a |
“e -able-destructive power. That in the State Department. Dos aoe et oe
_ ‘wag all he felt free to say at Suppose the American Gov-
., ‘he ‘time, and his statement ernment engaged upon dis- :
ea left me puzzled. It was the first’ cussions with the British j
‘+ 4nformation that had come to . government concerning this: ‘ AY
me about the atomic bomh, but decision and the documents,
he gave me no details , j.” back and forth, passed over
this business was really the desks of Burgess and Mac-
_ Bo’ secret, why did nof the Lean, And suppose they made
: - Pentagon set j copies and passed them on to
° security system? The FEY was their Russian masters. Knowl-
kept out of it but not Dr. Klaus @dge of the truth, it ; did .
Fuchs who, although. a known Dothing else, would clqanse
‘ Communist, was permitted to the reputations. of susp: cted :
'. enter this country and to work Americans., =): —_
' .at the Manhattan Project. ——— -
F Bue not paly vas the Vice
resident kept in ignorance oe . aa ;
but the, Congress. Harry Tru- f Pious (gy Foret ns
man recounts that when he ~--- toe
' Was chairman of a Senate: \ speaew”
committee investigating the > aie oO fA hed . RAE
national defense, Stimson cece tue em tine ns : NOT HECOT Ga
came to him. This is the way aR At # 4545
Truman recounts it: BBB fis, 1396
_ _“'SENATOR,’ the Secretary *
(Stimson) told me as he sat : eT rere
beside my desk, ‘I can’t tell.
you what it is, but it is the | eee coe
. Sreatest project in the history -
: | Of the world, It is most top
, ' Secret. Many of the people
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