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‘DIPLOMAT SPIE Continued from P. 1, Col, 6) bee established by the Royal Coxp- nusjion. He gave a lot of informp- Mont to tne security authorities. Was Burgess under suspicion for security reasons? | Burgess was not directly under invesugalion for security and joyalty, but his general conduct bad been unsatisfactory and he had been suspended. Was Maclean wider suspicion for security reasons, and jor how * tong? ~ Definite suspicion for security ‘reasons had fallen on Maclean by April, 1951. (Maciean disappeared [tthe ‘following montin. i, After April, 1951, steps were Laken to ensure that exceptionally secret material did not reach Maclean. He WaS Mul removed because of the necessity for continuing the investi- gation. Hou is it that Maclean was ailowed to get wieay? ‘There were no powers to stop Mqe- tear leaving the country. Ji will be aAypipeiated that is “vel lance of any su be rgconeiled wit ihat* his suspicions should not be jaroused. ! CONTACT “NOT HERE” i Diploniats® Escape Route {Petrov states that material twas a@ Russian contact at the | Soviet Embassy in London. Is this contact still here? The contact is not. still here, ‘The spokesman refused 10 a jany other questions about the Sovic coniact, but it is clear that he would Thave left the country as fasi as he could as soon as Uie disappea jot Maclean and Burgess bi known. 1 is probable that Mac! and Burge: h nad different con- facts al the Soviel Embassy, Do the British authoritiz what happened to Mact “Burgess after they reached , St. Malo? Not in detail, We believe their roule through the Tron Curtain lay jthyough Czechoslovakia, {Where are Maclean and Burgess ow? Hr. Petrov has said they are ngar Mdscow. We have no direct cqn- jf bauion of this. the requiremel] | : QUERIES UNANSWERE “ Wait for White Paper” h answer to other guestions,|the spqkesman said they had batter awit publication of the White Paper. The unanswered questions included one sbout Mrs. Maclean. , Jwho ‘disappeared rom Geneva in ;September, 1953; and another about whethe: steps had been taxpn to | deal with those in this country associated in any way with. the H espionage activities of Maclean and | [Burgess Final approval to the text of the White Paper will presumayly be given vy Cabinet Ministers in the next day or two. ‘The Maclean and Bu Bess case has long since ceased to be one witch concerned the Poreign Office alone, The Soviet Embassy in London ad no comment to make on the case yesterday. ‘The matter is untikely to be raised lofficially | between | Britain and Russia. In the first piace, Britain no extradition “treaty with sta case, to ask for the lexpadition of Burgess and Maclean Tmikht lead Russia to ask for,the exfradition of Mr, Petrov and of fhe other numerous Russians Who have taker, political asylum} in itory. jertusn te: | CAMERA USE | [BY MACLEAN ——$—— PEICTALS’ THEORY Daily Telegraph Reporter Security officers believe that some of the information passed to the Russians was from docu- ments in bulky les which it would not have been possible to take out of the Foreign Office! building. It is believed that n took a camera into the i Olfice to photograph. ithe pape ; Inquirie: establish whe: been made to, od in this camer: nnber of negatives. ibihty that the eam was supplied by the Soviet contact been overlooked, Beca’ of photographing doc ments would Rave to be dene sur- repliliousiv a leas giving high defi- nition would be required for Mac- lean would have liltie opportunity Ho arrange special lighting, {By using this methed the amount Vor information which Maclean could {have carried trom the building with- arousing suspicion would be cop. isidyrable, “It would have the af e also vt preventing ally papers being missing t proper place for longer that ‘the time taken to photograpit, FOREIGN OFFICE | “TIMIDITY? || AUSTRALIAN VIEW | SYDNEY. Tuesday. The Sydney Morning Herald. whiclt is publishing the Statements of Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet plomat, to-day) the British Foreign Office for “its long delay* in achuitiing that Burgess and Macleun. the missing dipioma! had been long-term Soviet spies. An. editorial “The Foreign Oflice Is genera)!y considered to be a repository of dip- lematic lom, of shrewdness and awareness. Ob this particular matter it lias shown meveiy timidity anc evasion. { “There is cause for public concern.- over what went on in our (External Affairs) department or its. fh How much more reason i British astonishment and angi t two spies had for so long a ‘free go in stitution whose top secrets so, closely affect the freedom of mi the detec: th loebveen them ; I gevicus fon" in the Australfan ‘Department should have led tofan offizial British acknowledgment. of even more damaging situajton! to. a debal Paper on the! Maclean and Burgess affair when Pariiament Teassenibles on Oct. 2, day Col. Lipton. Socialist! : down a House on for Sir Anthony Eden.” asking ir the, appointment of a Select’ Committee! to investigate (he-diseppearance of the two diplomats and the genera} efficiency of Civil Service security: jarrangement, ) NO NEWS IN MOSCOW he British Embassy in Mosq stdted yesterday that it had no fofnation whatever on the whi abpuls of Maclean and Bury [Ni official Sovies source has admitied knowing anything allout the. mi AP. ng diploins