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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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Mea Lieto) . LONDON, Nov. 9 (Li—Britain's Super-secret spy-catching espionage agency MI-5 will be investigated it- self because of the Burgess-MacLean spy scandal, press reports said to ay. ee mgeiry would be the first | MacLean debate, since MI-5's almost legendary group These source - began before the First World War. | . es said the investiga It follows complaints that the Se- cret Service let omats Donald, @ MacLean and Guy~ Burgess escape ehind the Tron urtain and failed to find the “third man” who tipped them off. Prime Minister Anthony Eden this week offered an investigation of Foreign .O{fice security because of the diplomats’ defection, but Eden - made no mentien of MI-5—presum- ably because the agency is almost never officially mentioned by the. British government. Even the name of the agency's’ chief has not been disclosed since! iis post-war head, Sir Percy Sillitoe, | retired two years ago. The address of MI-5’s headquarter- ets in a downtown office building is kept secret. its phone switchboards are unlisted and its finances, like the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, are not detailed even to Parlament. ! —_———, ————e 2 ORF Glee beeen the Big Ones: Get Away! vic “orouiiaaw 2aY ritain 's\Spy Catchers Face Probe Informed sources said Eden “in- formally” gave further details ‘of the proposed security investigation to Socialist Opposition Leader Clement Attlee following Monday’s Burgess- ee “— r ’ Ore werner peutrea cory sent CB. MS Po B4adku i eS tee, "tks Minn i a SAYA BY LEVIER JUN 22 i976 ry PER FOIA REQU-3 SY aA c A Mr. Tolson Mr, Boardman . Mr. Nichols rt. Belmon Mr. Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsona .___.___ Mr. Rosen Me Mr. Tamm fK Mr. Sizoo . Mr. Winterrowd J Tele. Room : ft Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy “a tion would be carried out by a six- man committee of the Privy Coun: cil, the body of lawmakers desig- nated for life as advisers to the sov-. # ereign. Most are ministers “or Yor-{ °°” mer ministers. Eden and Attlee would be members of the committee. Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News 2s Wash. Star N. Y¥. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date Ov 9 7855
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