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Even when suspicion finally fell upon them, hey were allowed to leave the country as asily as if they were going for a day tip to Boulogne without passports. The depth and extent of the treachery have been exposed only because one Russian spy chose to sell out. What else is there that is vile and rotten and has not been exposed? sot ' NEXT CHAPTER Are we to wait for the next spy who comes over before we hear the next instalment of this sordid and disquieting story? If the guilty officials ‘can help it, we will hear nothing more except what may be forced out by the next accidental disclosure. There is only one man who can make sure that the White Paper or the subsequent debate in the Commons will have any real meaning or any real value. Secretary. Nobody can possibly blame hi ‘or the ill-smelling mess he has inherit: But he alone can clear it up. Tip-off 3 That a friend who, knew of the investi: gation Warned Maclear® ‘The Secret Service does not know how the’ secret got out and pre- sumably have been un- able to find any hole there may be in the That man is Harold Macmillan, the =i By CUY EDEN wre gave Maclean the tip-off that he was under sus- : pieion, enabling him ' to escape before the ‘Intelligence men * closed about him? That is one of the security net. main. questions which _ Sir Perey Sillitoe, head have been worrying the- -of, M.U5, the British: Counter Espionage Organisation at the time of the Maclean-Burgess escape. had no comment to make last night. Lord Strang, who was Permanent, Under- Secretary of State at security chiefs “ever since Maclean and Bur- gess disappeared more than four years ago. Foreign Office spokesman admitted yesterday that it seemed certain some such hint his free a ciocuments, was able.to (TOL. MARCUS pul two and txo lo LIPTON, Socialist gether from what he M.P. for Brixton, put Would see, and come to gown a question yester~ thé conclusion that he asking Sir Anthon; haf better get out. eA J v den: g|that an investigator “Whether. he, wi acted clumsily in his appoint a Select Com jntuiries and gave the mittee to investigate ih alarm. circumstances of , # mystery va" MP CALLS FOR NEW PROBE tows le alone can insist on having the names and the heads of the men who have persistently fed the Ministers, Parliament and the people with calculated fies. UNSUSPECTED We are far from suggesting that the Foreign Office is a nest of traitors. But the Foreign Office is a place almost equally dangerous. It is a place where traitors have been able to nest, unsuspected and “uncontrolled. We do not pretend to know the reason for the immunity that the traitors so long enjoyed. lt may have been negligence, favouritism, laziness or plain stupidity, Whatever the reason, the! public must have ~ firm assurance that the scerdal will never happen again. Then another White Paper will be called for. Not a White Paper BY the Foreign Office, but a White Paper ON the Foreign Office. The difference between the two fs the difference betwen a whitewashing add a thorough clean-upe the Foreign Office at cowntry, without at least the same time. retired in being ordered to remain. November, 1953, her Lord Strang is & Rus- sian expert. fn 1930 h WHY was not some e@ “holding charge” made against them? was appointed Acti Counseilor, at Mos WHY, if they were and acted as chargé ynder ‘suspicion, were affaires. MPs want to know: WHY, if their activi- ties were unger investi- gation by | Intelligence and security authorities, were Burgess and Mac- lean allowed to continue their work in the Foreign Office? WHY were they allowed to get out of the they not suspended? WHY did the Govern- ment put up a security screen of silence avout the two men after they had escaped behind the Iron Curtain? DID Intelligence lose track af them until Petroy made iis revela- tions in Australia? spokesman said yester- day that definite sus~ picions fell on Maclean by April, 1951. Burgess wis not Har ticulurly under invdpti- gation as to his secufity and his loyalty, but this general condi was under examination. disappearance of Bur- gess and Macican and the general efficiency of Civi] Service. security arrangements.” But it seems unlikely this wili be granted be- cause doth Front jenches ure involved. ‘A Foreign Office