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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26

66 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 19, 1956 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 66 pages OCR'd
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C ; ian LONDON, July 2 (AP)}—La- bor Party leader Harold Wil- son aceused Prime Minister and spy Scandais which havejand insolence,” ie Britain. Minister added. in a -face-to-face collision] The row was touched off by the House of Commons,ja dispute over the way the facmiillan snapped back that!Conservative Government han- : ‘|Philby is believed to have i h /- $. _ _ yer =. e03 4 Ne ia a as mn Jor 8 Wad os GF >]& bs-6%04 D> - Na. finding the spies was a secu- rity suecess—not a failure— and angrily told Wilson he Harold Macmillan today of|thought his remarks offensive. taking a petulant attitude and! “You really must learn to trying to laugh off the scxidistinguish between invective the ore Reta cath + ve? ‘a ay iene: Macmillan and Wilson 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! Gstuvermg a failures! ___-_—_-» 1 KS TE ceemaienemitttinae Mohr . Casper Callahan Contad —_ . DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy abe, ~ \, = i = fa _ — fx a The Washington Post and aan = Timea Herald u The Washingion Daily News a c The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journai-Ametican New York Mirror New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Jaurnal _ —. The National Observer Date ny Lae 2 NOT RECORDED 191 JUL 5 ted
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