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—-WIFE IS TALKING TOO ~\— NOW MPs MAY BE TOLD With Petrov fg his 35-year-old honey-blonde wife Evdokia. She was a cypher clerk in the embassy—and she was, it is fyrther revealed, & key operative in the secret police. . With her husband-—in pofitical asylum in a hiding place in New South Wales—she is talking fast too. Courlérs are bringing coples of their statements by plane net only’ to London but to the Intelligence Departments of the other Western Powers. Revealed already are the detalls of Communist subversive activity in the West since 1945, when Igor Gouzenko, Russian cypher clerk in Oltewa, exposed the spy rings in Canada, The leak of Communist spy activities has become a waterfall—so that all branches of the Intelligence Services of NATO are now fully occupied checking facts, identifying agents, and tracing payments to “fifth colummist” co-operators. And this work will go om for months—while the | Communist spy organisation will plainly have to be overhauled. MOSCOW REGRGANISES Old agents will no longer carry trust; and. if still free, they will have tobe recalled. AM their contacts wi be ucrter observation, And fresh agents will find the going tough. . Already, yesterday came news of developments in Moscow, where Prime Minister Malenkoy has reorganised his Government. And the most notable change Is the setting up of a State Security Committee, independent of Serget Krugiov, the Minister of the Interior who succeeded Beria, the shot “traitor.” To the head of this new committee goes General Ivan Seroy, until now deputy te Kruglov. He becomes the supreme boss of Russia's espionage, counter- espionage, and sabotage activities. And Serov, 48-year-old ladies’ man and Tavourite of Stalin, with a long record of undercover arrests in Russia, will have the task of reor ganising his foreign services—in the light of Petrov’s revelations. It is not yet known how much of Petrov’s disclosures ul be made public. Some will certainly be al: before tne Royal Aspalla of Investigation which is being set up. in Ausfralia, fee, Sas AN, . - Spe te te Sanaa NS oes i eat most | .Maclean is alive--{1) An emissary placed £1,000 in a in Britain, the Foreign Office will decide how far | the freshly gained detalls of Burgess and Maclean will be made avaliable through Parliament. Donald“Maclean, immaculate but erratic, was the 38-year-old head of the Ametican Department in the Foreign Office. Guy Burgess, shiftless and erratic, was 40, and had been second ‘secretary at Washington. They caught the steamer Fataise at Southampton on May 25, 1951, landed at St, Malo, took @ taxi to | Rennes, in Brittany—and vanished from the eyes of | the Western world. i Since then there have been two indications that / Swiss bank for the benefit of his dependants; and (2) Mrs, Maclean and her children vanished eastwards from Geneva last September, And there has been one indication that | Burgess is alive—he sent Christmas greetings to his mother, in Arlington House, S.W.#last year, The Petrov story, when tt can be told in full will eomplete the Burgess and Maclean story—the most baffling in the history of British Intelligence, | {World i Reserved HE IS TALKING —FAST ve VLADIMIR PETRO His secrets flown to London