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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15
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out the two traitors who fooled Cabingt
inisters, duped the Foreign Office, and
made a monkey of British security when
‘they scarpered to Russia in 1991.
The nation will be outraged if Mr.
_ Macmillan fails to give alt the facts tn
Parliament today.
Won't tet anybody imagine that the
Burgess-Maclean scandal is stale and
‘unimportant now.
_ Working in Moscow today are two
Byitish renegades who ran rings round
Secret Service and struck a shrewd
nde at our relations with America.
ry fo geta worth while atom secret out
of ab Amenican » He wilt feat sinartly
“with questions. like ‘these: '* What abott
‘Kichs # What about Nunn May! Whét
‘about Pontecorvos WHAT ABOUT
|BURGESS AND MACLEAN?"
True—Buryess and Maclean did sot
(hawk atomic: ‘know-how to the Russians,
,a8 far as is known But when British
‘traitors: skip off to Moscow America’s
lreaction is to keep her atomic bag of tricks
more thanevertoherself, - _..
set have never told the full trugh
a
Mr. Macmillan can undo a lot of
"harm today by coming clean about the
_whole disreputable business.”
The whole truth won't ditch Burgess
id Maclean now But it may show thht
the Foreign Office has hegun to profit fro
it past blunders , :
‘ to Know:
The public want to knows < e!
WHO kept Burgess and Maclean in
high Government posts long after it was
plain that they were security risks f -
ARE the security sleuths who allowed
the traitors to esc ape still holding down
their jobs t
“WHAT thie Ahead put “olf” searching
Maclean’a hansé for a month “ when Mra,
Maclean was expec ted to be away
from home"? |
- WHAT venwus decided to postpone the
grilling of Maclean berause ‘that would
alert’ himt «|
WAS there a Third Man y An M.
hhs mentioned the name of a man, Is ul is
just allegation ? <3":
“/ The Man Who
Knows
' Today tbere is a man who- knows all
about the First, Second and Third..Meo
in the Foreign Office Scandal. Se Gs
He is Mr Macmillan, the Foreign
“Secretary:
W hep be says his piece in the ¢ Com
this afternoon he need not worry about
putting the best face on it to save the pride
‘of injured officialdom.
Officialdom has already taken a beating
in the Burgess-Maclean serial.
Let Mr. Macmillan worry about the
public who.are tired of being treated
like numskulls. —
The time for grudging admissions from
reluctant spokesmen is Over.
Let’s have a bellyful of facts from Mr.
Macmillan to answer all the questions the
vecent White Paper left unanswered.
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