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She Russian Spy System | - A dofecting Soviet espionage agent, who finally pul! the curtain on the drama of the disappearing British diplo- i mats, MacLean and Burgess, has revealed that these two .4 young men had been members of the Russian spy apparatus since their student days in Cambridge, This is a significant contribution to our study of Communist aims and methods, it would not be surprising to learn that miost of the men and wamen who were involved in Soviet espionage in this country also had- been drawn into the net in their student days, or at an age comparable to the student period. So far as we know the story of Communist infiltration in this coun- try, and in other free nations, it is built on the capture of young people, when they show an interest in half-baked no- tions-such as the theories of Marx and before they outgrow their adolescent rebellion against the humdrum conditions of ihe world as they find it. . It is hard to imagine to just what an extent the spying activity of Burgess.and MacLean may have influenced the istory of the world since they were boys in college. Mac- Lean, especially, had an opportunity, which he certainly did hoi ignore, to steal the technical secret of the atomic bomb arly'in the war period, while those things were still secret . from Russia. He also had an opportunity to know that the : American State Department was opposed to any attack on Chinese territory during the Korean war, and it may be that he had an opportunity to influence British policy toward putting pressure on the United States to avoid an attack across the Yalu Riv General MacArihur has implied strongly that the Chinese were well aware of the shackles pul on American forces in Korea, guaranteeing the enemy “privileged sanctuary” and practically offering the Chinese a reward for jumping into the war on the side of the North pee mee me meme Koreans, oo If MacLean gave the Russians the means of catching up with American atomic weapons progress, and tipped off the Chinese Communists to an action which probably pre- ‘ vented the United Nations from winning the Korean war, it is true that, as one spy, he did more than an Army to ad- vance the fortunes of communism. Spying is the cheapest way to win an advantage. That is why the Communists depend on it so much, and why they go to such fantastic extremes to build up spy rings within spy rings. The revelations of spying in Australia, fro which came the story of the MacLean and Burgess affai imply supplement and verify previous revelations of sp ngin Canada and the United States. Systematically loo! JE] EXPRESS a DELETCE Br LETEES PLATO Oty faz9 to “POW fey rh 2d “RE Ling