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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15
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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. !
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Informed sources said Eden “in-
formally” gave further details ‘of the
proposed security investigation to
Socialist Opposition Leader Clement
Attlee following Monday’s Burgess-
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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.
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