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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32

121 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: May 11, 1966 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 115 pages OCR'd
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/ f TO i FROM 4-572 (Rev, 7-18-63) ‘. Ortigia: tote NO. 10 \ 8010-106 aaaY 4007 EDITION O42 Oth. AG. NO. TF \ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum The Director N. P. Callahan ‘SUBJECT: The Congressional Record if YY Pages H1265-H1273. wiles at the same time honest public servants are given the kangaroo court o olzZcicl ecold-shoulder treatment. CaLee of defections, disappearances, suicides, arrests, scandals, and the like, bus xowhere, not even in the phenomengl Richard Sorge case, have there been circccions to rival those of Harold ‘Kim DATE: >/> sft f Congressman Ashbrook, (R) Ohio, spoke concerning the Otepxa case. He stated "His case gives a penetrating insight into cuestionable State Department policies which have found lax security, favoritism, subversion, immorality, and dishonesty tolerated if not fostered, - --~- The vital need for unbreachable security procedures has been pointed up during the past two decades by many Philby, Guy Burgess, and Don Maclea. Lo. 2Skorook set forth informattoh concérning activities of Philby, Burgess 226 LJaciean. He pointed out that ''With recent disclosures in the British pres ‘there can remain little doubt as to who was responsible for the intelligence In the original of a memorandum captioned and dated as above, the Congressional = was reviewed and pertinent items were Record for Zz hi (6S 4 \lecit in Washington which so benefited the Chinese Reds. Philby arrived in AL “ington as British liaison to the FBI and CIA and in November 1950, Macl CBOE to “Vashington as head of the Foreign Office’s American department. — oo angeon Post of October 1%, i967, excerpted material from the enon Landay Times rélating to Ma clean’ s role in the Korean affair.“ = As-brock also comments on other cases of lax security by the State we eee and the treatment accorded certain personnel by the State Pawtan fe beetle anfrawnan atweint aanunity naciuilat we eee ttment for their efforts in tr Yilig, tO @niorce strict security regulations. =. Asitsrock concluded "Otto Otepka illustrates the torturous ordeal that zoo government employees must go through when they challenge the officialcom in Washington, particularly in the State Department. His -case stands as an indictment of the State Department and its policies." r onan les. ‘andes Adjournment: Until Taursday, February 22, 1968, at 12 noon. leat 141 war 18 1968 marked for the Ditectoi‘s aMfention. This form has been prepared in order that Phe Ae portions of a copy of the original memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and placed a ot + — “Ty a eae a 4 f es ee ver BEES or subject matter files. NOT RECORDED —
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