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IMBHE REVELATION that _Dosald Machean and Guy” & "2Bbrgess were active spiés for Soviet Russia during stost'of their carcers in the British Foreign Office comes }Hdrdly as a surprise. . SacNndeed, it had been widely assumed ever since their ippearance in 1951 that these two personally dis. efytable characters had been doing just that. Neither had'made any secret of his pro-Communist, or extremely Sleftewing views. t The grating facts are that (1) the British govern- iment let both of these men stay on the job while they vere still under suspicion, even passively defended em after they defected, and (2) both had access to ret material which the United States shared with ot So Strange - i aon oe aoe oe HE LABOR GOVERNMENT under Prime Minister esttlee was in power at the time the two diplomats dis- fppeared. Herbert Morrison was head of the Foreign «planation or official theory as to the strange dis- rance of MacLean and Burgess. Though both must Xnown something of the circumstances, all replies Were evasive, & Prime Minister Attlee insisted it “would not be in hjublic interest” to make a full report of the case. ig°Mr. Morrison urged interrogators to withhold jude. “until all the facts are known.” ~ LATTER TOP CLIPPING “= BY | hk NATED Hh MArKe FILE AD PER ralA Kivu! o~ N . Indianapolis Times Indianapolis, Ind. September 22, 1955 Spots - Teck: Fenad, perrep taey set CB, icc Dorrntel