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The Daily ' Express ~-and the Foreign Office HERE is a great sti in the land. \ The Foreign Office ; dmits the damaging news” that “Burgess and Maclean, the missing diplomats, were spies. But the Foreign Office is shamming. It is indulging in double-talk. For what is the truth ? The truth is that the facts | about Burgess and Maclean have been known to the | Daily Express and __ its eadets for many years. | nd certainly all the fapts upped by Petrov {in | So what the ustralla were printed jn ago. RE: DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al ine Dally Express 18 months | javional . security that’ this refugee agent had revealed : 1, The missing diplomats’ whereabouts. 2 Their escape route. 3. Their employment, Chapman Pincher further dis- closed that Maclean was under security investigation before he disappeared, and that a report had aiso been made on Burgess. All this Petrov now confirms. Not all of Petrov's story has been told yet in this country. But niore of it has appeared in the American news magazine U.S. News and World Report. There it is related how Kislytsin, an MVD agent who ‘later served with Petrov in Australia, met Burgess and Maclean jn Moscow. Kislytsin told Petrov that he hqd’ visited them at their house “dn the outskirts of Moscow” agd that they were then aciing &s advisers to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. matics, Russian Daily Express reported 1& months ago 1s upheld in every particular. But what was the reaction of the Foreign Office when this news- paper made its revelations ? ‘This was the statenient issued at the time :— “ Petrov had no first-hand know- ledge whatsoever of the miss- ing diplomats, In, these cir- cumstances any hearsay evidence Petro | may | produce must, be treated witl ne TESerne,” To\which was-added the phra: And it cannot he regarded ks s§ ficiently conclustue to justify the various statements pup- | Usted in the Press this morp- | ing.” ESPIONAGE” =" (Bufile 100-371:283) DAILY EXPRESS . , SEPTEMBER 22, 1955 PONDON, ENGLAND 45 dy LONEO!L * “The Press” was the Dai EXDYESS, Piinly this was an attempt 1 lenigrate the Daily Expres: news service, It was an alcempe to cast doubt on the Teliability of the newspaper which had persistently and accurately reported the unfold- ; ing of the Maclean-Burgess mystery in face of vilification and obstruction |from many quarters, 8 There was never any doubt about the accuracy’ of the news in the Daily Express, | Yet it was only on Monday ot this week, In advance of the publication of the ite- | paper, that the truth was j acknowledged. { ‘The Foreign Office nas a duty to correct this injustice, The Foreign Office owes it to the Daily Express and to the public who were deceived at the newspaper's expense. S Si Anthony Eden presided ever a two-and-a-half - hour Cabinet meeting yesterday even- ing when the Government's White-paper on Maclean and Burgess was considered. Sir Anthony has summoned another Cabinet meeting for this motn: ing, The White-paper is expect tobe published te morr ope uiternoon. . 7 wT ety é Fo ye