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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26
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son aceused Prime Minister
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taking a petulant attitude and! “You really must learn to
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In Row Over Security -
dled recent security disclo-
sures. These were topped by
yesterday's revelation that
diztOmat-turned-newsmen Har-
old Philby was the myste $
“third Man” who warned ren-
egade diplomats Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean to flee
England in 1951.
Burgess and Maclean have
been in Moscow since and
slipped across the Iron Cur-
tain since he disapppeared
from Beirut last January,
Commons Stunned
News that Philby, once first
secretary of the British em-
bassy in Washington and be-
lieved head of security there,
has actually been a Sovict
agent stunned the House of
Commons. When Maemillan
was Foreign Seeretary in 1955
he had said there was no evi-
dence against Philby.
Verbal sword-crossing in
Commons first started “when:
a Conservative member of:
yParliament asked Macmillan
if he planned to appoint a
‘Minister of security. 1
The Prime Minister replied |
that he would have to await
the result of a judicial in-
quiry into the John Profumo-
- Christine Keeler - Yevgeny
Ivanov affair before deciding. |
Wilson then asked if Mac-
millan would appoint a new
judicial inquiry into the Phil-
by affair “assuming you have
enough judges to go around.”
He charged Macmillan with
ducking questions.
The Prime Minister replied
angrily that “the questions
you have put to me were com-
plicated and offensive,”
He continued:
“If we are to reach a situa-'
tion when every success of
the security services is treated!
as a failure, we are going to|
have a vested interest in not!
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