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. . * Toes ao Bree ee . : a £ te wes a. . aut eee Feet 7 - Rete ee Bt ‘ “st - cae er * 4 . tw - 4 a at ee a a : tn ae BY deter AA ta ! ig Men 11573 “Former Forelgn Office “I NOVEMBER 1985 Officials Disappearance 1576 «7.7 i only by giving them money, not only by point is that, as a result, our security threatening them, not only by any of the services apparently made no sort of : old-established ways, but by appealing to inquiries about the antecedents and backs -4-+-- - their ideology. 4 is very true indeed. ground of other atomic scientists who. k What I contend, what has been suggested were working for us. If they had dond 42" ~ . by many hon, Mentbers in the debate, and 0, they would have found a very much. * what is certainly sugecsted in the White more important man. Dr. Klaus Fuchs! oo 7°" . Paper, is that since ihe war, at any rate, They would have found thal he was & ? our security service has been going the sefugee in this country from Nazi persez =~ wrong way about it 10 detect those people. cution in Germany in his youth, that he | This particular failure by the security had been a member of the service in the case of Burgess and Party afl his adult life, that all bis Maclean is bad enough in itself, but I brothers and sisters were Communists: laenee maintain that it cannot be considered in that he had been reported to the Chief _ isolation. As I sce it, it is the culmination Constable of Bristol as a Communist, and 222. Communist ~ Eig AOE ga PPR RABAT EE ENN Re aE ae SEI ay TF, ¢ of a series of failures, which were far that his name had been found in the f more damaging to the safety of this note-book of one of the chief suspects * | S country than this one, .I refer to the cases in the Canada spy triaL Yet, apparentlys --~ :: & of the three Russian agents engaged on none of these facts was discovered Dye : atomic research in this country, that isto our security services, and it was only ----- a) say. Dr. Alan Nunn May in 1946, Dr. three years later, when word came from 2=-— 4 Fuchs in 1949, and Professor Pontecorvo America, that we were able to get busy i jin 1950. T hope that the House will bear on him. One would have thought that --- 4 with me for a few minutes while I say @ fier that, at least, our security service ~~ - c few words about each of them, for that would have been alerted in this kind of < ~- 4 Jeads to the point I am anxious to make. case, but not a bit of Hoe 81 eee ee 3 The first of these three agents and = - We then come to the worst of the three _-- 2 traitors, the Teast considerable and the cases, that of Profes po 4 sor Pontecorvo which least harmful, was Alan Nuon May. At followed very soon afterwards. Professo¢ =. Cambridge he was definitely recognised Bring Pontecorvo, like Fuchs, was in k as a Communist. When he left there he ' ase eg inte , a his youth a victim of Fascist persecution, ~ =~ . went to Russia on a visit, and when he ehis'time in Italy. He bad a brother there ~~~ : came back he joined the editorial board = ywto was a well-known and active Com: .__ 3 of the “Scientific Worker,” which is the munist. He had 2 sister who was married: Mi official journal of the National Associa- 4), professed Communist, and his first t tion of Scientific Workers, and which at cous was 9 member of the Central ” i that time, I think ft would be quite fairto Con inee of the Italian Communist’ <2 : say, included many Communists amongst Party, After those two earlier examples, -- b its disectors., = 2: oc... it was nothing short of shameful that our’ 9" 1 am not suggesting that for these security services knew nothing at all about: <-"” i reasons Muno May should pot bave been this, LU, Dee: ge ViLspily : COME Afterall in those days. gn the After Pontecorvo had escaped and’ “7... 5 eee, j After sall " those days, in the. Questions were raised in the House, these x Mics: Ht was Hot s0 very uncommo were the kind of replies that were givéa., =7-= » ? to have those views when one was an On 23rd October, 1950. in answer to's; ia undergraduate. -What ‘is more, when. supplementary question by my hon: ¥ Nunn May was engaged by Tube Alloys,’ Fuend the Member for Aluincham an@ -~=*<~ : the cover name used for atomic research Sale (Mr. Erroll), the then Minister of -.°~ i io hose days, any (person, who was a Supply, the right hon. Member for’ ~~ g pro-Russian was considered also to hall G. R. Strauss) said _ ¢ be a strong anti-Hitler, When, however, Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss) sai thas 4 after the war ous actual enemy, Germany, onlecotva -------.- - et re changed to potential enemy, Russia, men“... has been screened several Kimes during - i" 4 like that in such vital positions should the last few years by our security officers”. 4-2 i have been considered by our security ser-- “Ya answer to a further question, the = : vices not, perhaps, with suspicion but, at_ sight bon. Gentleman said: -2- oom 7 j apy rate, with a very inquiring eye.“ =:.~' ©... according to the security officers, the : aa ~T do not think that too much blame fOrricat Repos, 2nd Goober 1950 wal? meee BE 4 can be attached in the first case, but the 478, 2489Jrcc. Go tom P - 4 1 ee a opr ac ee a oe Le : a