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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15

83 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 83 pages OCR'd
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Vel? te, These: Days ee oes . 7 By ‘George Sokoleky Mc, Boardman . i 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 . - wh tually: i ef ws . Wash. Post and a the work “have fo ides what DELEG 3 Copy StuT C-R, M1 bancl onalol Times Herald — re a, ‘it is, and we who do would PY UTTER or . . Perhaps {had Hi rue PER GIR AcGucal, ve _™mpn mage} hig, amy—Teu- settee, Lripet rat a Wash. Star . ae if a a N. ¥. Herald Tribune - : _ N. Y. Mirror BOWALS Igoe b+ me fe SE hat fea ples toe Mets ore + ie3 ct en ad et ™ ae
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