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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 24
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Burgess, th Spy,
Writes a Column
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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
G: uy BURGESS of the Burgess-Maclean partnership
“of Russian spies in Great Britain and the United
States wrote a piece for The London Sunday Express,
last February, which is of interest at the present mo-
ment because of implications in relation to the forth-
coming Khrushchev-Bulganin yisit to Great Britain.
Burgess clarifies Russian policy, as he under-
- stands it, after having said that he and Maclean have
i
pondents).
any illusion on our part that we could do anything ©
much to hurt this friendship even if we wanted to.
Quiy_ Mr, Dulles 6 could do that. "
had every opportunity to meet Russlans “of different
kinds and at all levels, except the highest official level.”
Then he says: ee
“Tt has been said that we tried to hurt Anglo-:
American friendship in the statement that we made
(when they first showed themselves to foreign corres-
This assumption is as false as would be
lai pitisnittl?
APR 16.1956
ortrayed as Enemy
This {s very Interesting because obviously John
Poste Dulles js now being portrayed as the enemy of
reat Britain as part of the Communist Party line
in all parts of the world. If he does not go along with
British policy with regard to the Near East, it Js to be
remembered that Sir Anthony Eden has not gone along
‘with American policy with regard to the Far East, AS
a matter of fact, if there is any disturbance of Anglo-
American relations, it is because Great Britain recog-
nized Red China too scon and having done that de-
parted altogether from both American and British
concepts of right by insisting what Red China could
shoot its way into the United Nations. It has been said,
but not officially, that Great Britain recognized Red
China after having been premised that the United
States would quickly follow. If such a claim, which I
heard in London a year ago, is correct, the British were
taken in,
ee -
Burgess says that he wrote a speech for his chief
in the Foreign Office which “ran roughly as follows”:
“The Chinese People's Government is a govern-
Ment of Chinese people by Chinese people and for
Chinese people. That is why we have recognized it
and that is why it is surprising that the United States
has not got around to doling so.” ——
In a word, this man, 2 Russian agent, who skipped
out of his own country while under investigation and
. who now is in Moscow in the employ of the Russian
Forelgn Office, wrote 2 speech which actually describes
British polfcy and which denounces ("it is surprising”)
American policy. He does not say when he wrote that
speech but Burgess was employed in the British-Foreign
Office during the years 1944 to 1951 and therefore he
enild wv hava been mithant knowledge nf tha Knrvaarn
Relea not Maru Mak FRSVEA LEY ELE PA the eb Goel
-'War which took so many American lives. Could it
have been Bevin or Morrison for whom the speceh was
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Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsong___
Mr. Rosen
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Mr. Nease ween
Mr. Winterrowd
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Mr. Holloman__
Blames China Lobby
He met in Washington American o
greed with him about Red China. He does not say
ho they were. He attributes the American fallure to
ecognize Red China to the China Lobby, of which
Alfred Kohlberg says he is the sole proprietor, although
Iam willing to claim a participation, and the Right
Wing of the Republican Party, which in the United
States Senate is the leadership of that party.. He
apparently does not believe that the yoters have any
interest In the matter.
Burgess denies that the present Russlan govern-
ement ic tmnerialist af exynansionist althaneh if has
ment is imperialist of expansionist, although if has
increased its hegemony over the human race from.
180,000,000 in 19359 to about 800,000,000 today. The
only reason for the Truman “Containment Policy” and
for NATG is to limit Soviet expansion.
The article was copyrighted by the North American
| Newspaper Alliance, Inc., and The London Sunday
Express. Nevertheless it did not attract too much at-
tention, perhaps because few identified its author as
the spy, probably figuring that 1t was somebody else
_ whose ideas were being given currency. The effort of
Soviet Russia to have Red China recognized by the
United States and the United Nations knows no abate-
’ ment and apparently the purpose of this article was to
influence both British and American public opinion.
Perhaps that is the job which Burgess and Maclean
hold in Mascow. .
It is astonishing that no one among the foreign
. kcorrespondents and- diplomats in Moscow recognized
and identified Burgess and Maclean during their stay
there, —
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