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weg yee ot pate geet ee ee puree Gb. tase Dowotel Bi we JUN 22 1976. PER FOIA REQUESA. fee Dini ’ : ‘ ' oh . eS , ant ° ES ae Bates 7 i ¢ af ate , / pa o- A toe rey i pointment of the committee was ' Home Secretary, Solicitor Gen- TOSTUDYE pal] PERE Sea who is Lator party 2 jeoder in ‘ibe of Lords. ~ Step Is Outcome of Mactean. Mei ont He secretary. a — : n, - Burgess Spy Case—Labor |: Peretti yo purty pif pa Part Has Réle on Board ! ner Foreign Secretary. 2. “ns “lps George Stratus, for former Labor , Minister of Su Bir Edward Svices, who, a5 Permanent Secretary te the Heads . the, Civil Sheclal to The New Yors Times. _ LONDON, Nov. 23 — Prime Minister Eden named ‘seven| Treasury, Prominent Britons today as aj Service. committee to g&amine British}. All Privy Council Members. security procedures and to con-! . ol i members at ibe une cons! e strengthening” they needed) : vent Britons, including present e { Cabinet members and many for- His action was a direct out-]! mer members of the Cabinet. growth of the bitter criticism di-| | ‘The Privy Council often acts as rected at the Government and), adviser to the monarch, — its security services for their]! Sir Anthony said the terms of reference of the up were “to handling of the case of the miss- | serine ine secubity P ies Ans British diplomats, Donald | now applied in the public service Maclean and Guy. Burgess... ; and.to consider whether any fur-' “Maclean, head of the Ameri- ther precautions ar, , called for “can Department at the Foreign and should be take: 7 Office, and Burgess, former Sec- h He ai the com ittee would ond Secretary at the Embassy in ave powe: ce rany persons or papers jt requires.” Washington, fled Britain in “ ‘The decision to hold an inquiry May, 1951, while Maclean was was announced by Sir Anthony! , under observation on suspicion during a recent debate in Com-! of being a Soviet spy. Both have ™ons on the Burgess-Maclean) ~ been reported in the viet Un- ©S¢. ; : i fon working for the we viet Gov- ernment, Sir Anthony told the House of Commons that the committee would report to him. But he add- ed that if the members recom- mended any changes in the law, “that Would be a matter for this: house." Findings to Bé Secret nd His statement (dicated. that * he did not intend to make the group's findings public except in So far as they. related to sug- _ gested law changes, Authoritative sources said the wr " Government was reluctant to pM : make the outcome of the Inquiry |. “{ public because it did not want): to disclose how the security sys- tem worked, It is also understood that oe of the chief reasons for the gp- t to convince the Opposition Labor party, which is represented on| ~ ard off Y ait, that reforms in jas security oe ‘ system since the disappearance NOT pe — of the diplomats have made it RECORD: _,,at least equal in effectiveness tol, 126 DE Cc 8 19 ithose of other nations. 55 ‘ Those appointed are: The Marquess of Salisbury,|: -Lord President of tha Privy}. Couficil and Leader of the House of Lords, en) 2 1958 re