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SECRET SERVICE SKILL eck should nd wiry place in & W ‘tel ian : See security. Was there ee’ Witch-Hunting known cause, he asked, of a spy who nad been a Spy Solely because of blackmail, whieh was made possible by his own character defects? WOMAN'S VIEW Why Was Maclean Kept? Dame IRENE WARD 4G., Tyne- mouth? suggested that the country ‘as more shocked by Maclea’s be- than at finding there was a traitor in the Forcign Service, Asking who was responsible for his retention she declared: “I This ‘old haviour in Caire speak as a hicre women, boy’ business. gets. me down. “{ want te Iden ling they are nob sued. “The Govern- iment has Teft a nasty taste in the mouths of people by not telling them why Maclean was retained.” MAJOR LLOYD-GEORGE DISTASTEFUL MEASURES Major LLOYIYGRORGE said the white Paper mada no departure from. the policy which successive lovernmienis had taid dewn. Certain changes in our security system were recommended, Change it but. ta strengtiren it, Ou the general issue, the con- ference. was Satished tbat there was nothing organically wrong with. thre security service, He hoped this yould allay the: feelings of these who ‘fad ihoueht thal there was some- thing, fundamentally uusculTd, He hoped all agreed the Govern- mont was righb in pursuing the policy of ensuring that Communists and those associated with them were not cmploved in the Civil Service where they had access to secret information. To-day, there had been fat greater | , the Governe j ment was paying too little attention empnasis on wherher to the rights. of the private individual. same of the migasures were eertainly alien to our liberal traditions bat so as tye menace thvy set out to ire piven. However distasteful the measures herve we could nob sit back and do thalhing while our security | imperiled, i pe [think we can all be assured that in with matters which affect » character and reliability mo political irterferenee can be oxcrcised to re- taity people. in positions for which: designed ob Ws tal total number of. 650,000 end £11 we cuM: a ; isk iia. The. Gevernment would do its: best jf sec that a man whe had to be takeit otf sceret work. WAS given em- { ployment in sone ather branch af ' ‘tine Civil Service. He did not underrete the hard.jup of those whe, because they were ad- _ judged te he the dupes af the Com- mrunists, were moved to other empioy- mont ar dismissed from the Service. Civil “But hard as their lot is, f mike 9 shrewd guess what taeir fate would be if they were employed in-the Civil Ser- vice of a Communist Power.” “As regards people coming tc what I might call a sticky ond ‘be cause of character defects, C can give quite a. Tew examyes. Fb,is pow & welkicsiown fact Unat many of the finest spies were Chosen heense Ley were the type of person who might encotraze character defects.” He had the greatest canfldence in the kriowledge and skill af the Secret Serviec. “There is.no. dateer, in this country of witch-hunting for the aake of wilch-hunting.” Most eriti- eisms of Britsin’s security service was hot. of bcing too Severe bart of | Wot. being severe criough. | ay * 7 Mn sel Sh IBERAL 1 eee nein inute Proportion | In the last five years there hpd ipeen 62 purse cases! in the Civil Ser- Heo, pire. in. the bigher CXECULIVE tanks and 33 in the lower, This figure ot 62 wis, Gut of mn non-indus- industrial Hunveer ef 400.000. “T do not think that could bear out any” attaek om the Civil Service.” The White Paper had established , ‘three prepositions ¢ -i=-The Government's policy on; Communists and Communist syit- pathisers was rivelita 22-1 Sandamenial proeecures. were, sound: and ! 3.—1t. was. tight that the Grovert- | ment should continue 6 pay all due regacd $o the position of the fnclivichual. With the assurance that the Cove | ernment intended ta de all It could Lo. prevent its polici¢s and procédures, impinging unfairly on hurnan rights, the House could rest conbent wilh the findings of the inquiry. | The debate coincided, None Dismissed ” In the five years to ine end. of 7455 no higher grace trembers. of the Civil Service were disnaiis pe of Cammunist syitipat i [ons or becuse OL security ; reper defeets.. Mx. BROOKE, Piaiirie bal Seécrevary, "Treasurg, stubed Unis In a WELLLEN ERS Wer Mic. Benn (Soc., Bristol] S.B.). Due ing this pemod seven oficials wep transferted for reasons within those categories aud vne ened.