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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 34
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Eden and Cabinet Meet
To Approve Spy Report
LONDON, Sept 21 ()—Prime
Minister Eden met with his cabi-|Papers continued to Jash the For-
eign Office. |
net today to put final approval : .
on a government report a the!” The Daity Express said the two
Burgess - MacLean “runaway/™e? fled from England in 1951
spies” case. after they received a warning
from “a British official in Wash-
Sir Anthony, fully recovered]. og
' ington,” described by the paper
from a recent attack of influenza,|). “a Russian spy.”
drove to London from his country," .. . |
Ty In his official capacity he re-j
ne ° Binet amet in the mid ,iseived information that British
“of the - ning sevieune newspaper security men were after the two
attacks made on the Foreign Of-| arplomats. the Express declared. |
: : : s unofficial capacity—as
fice in recent years for. its: Russi h
handling of the case of Denald/® #ussian Spy——he passed on!
MacLean and Guy Burgess, Brit-|the Information to a Soviet con-
ish diplomats who fled to the!#¢t m Yasiiligeon, Whibin tum
Communist East in 1951 aiter| arin Burress and MacLean.
serving as longtime Russian! “Who in fact is that third man
spies. jwho gave the tipoff?" the Ex-
For four years the Foreign'press asked. ;
Office, under both Labor and! Had Defense Secrets
Conservative governments, main-; Both Burgess and MacLean!
tained tirht secrecy over detalls:had access to allied secrets at a|
of the men’s defection. This was/time when the whole Western
broken last week end whenlagefense setup was in its |
former Russian spy Viadimirjiye stage. P n forma
Petrov desciosed they had been According to Foreign Office
Soviet agents for 20 years. spokesman, secret documents of
Disclosure Cofirred importance were withheld from
The Foreign Office then con-;MacLean beginning in April,
firmed Petrov's disclosures and| 1951. .
said Bureess and MacLean were| A man accustomed to.reading!
under investigation when they|top secret papers could™guess:
fled. : that the flow to him was thin-!
Spurred by anery newspaper ning and that this could mean’
eriticism, the government prom-./that he was being watched, In
ised an official white paper Fri- ‘such circumstances it would
day giving full details of the}have been easy for MacLean to!
cake, pass the word to Burgess
Wash. Post and
Times Herald
Wash. News
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/ < 2 N. Y. Herald Tribune
N.Y. Mirror
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