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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11
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DAVID LAWRENCE
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Soviet Spies in Innermost Circles
Slight Interest in Burgess and MacLean
By Seitish Might Have Nipped Them-ot
tvs the same old- story —
ihe first siery from @ Russion
Inadequate laws and tmeges oul Messrs, ManLear
quate security measures to sg: Lt was revealed in
ptotect a nation against Com-
man
ted article published
y Us . News
< agents and their dupes:
thes the world,
as the facts come te Hgnt
abont the penetration mad:
by Soviet spies inte the Brith
Foreign Office aud the Ausire-
ian Foreign Office.
For, just as Alger HG Sereomeeission’s report on.
tragsraitted seereis irom the:
United States Department of
& Worké Report.
axste from the document 13
sued by Ub Boy a} Comunssion
: a at week. vine
espionage wag yeleded by te
State, so did high olficiass ¢ ent in Austealia, Petrov
the British Foreign Office give Ze trat he could nou tale
them to agents, “Se- /anout the MacLear-Burgess
curity risks” who should long,
case.
before have been investigated
were nol carefally examined. *
Possibly st was Because the
atmosphere was poisoned by +
the syeeious elaim that in
dividual rights are sacrosanct +
suis any. fpidivichae
supersede the
© to prutect i
ne revelations about Mac
beats and Burgess were printed
Spaper over
fe waek end By arrangement
Morning Her-
‘alia. British Fore
eign Office officiais, wha have
vever admitted that they really
knew what hapyened to Mac-
Lest: and Burgess ar even what
the pair had deen doing, now
«is defini finatiy conesde that "on the
Ystps thas Denald "foueleen fuuily sone ages Goetvay's
wfho, up te” May 25. 1054, x te) he pPesunrnt
Statements) £7 pee
decupied the American desk. FAESEOS Be a documents
im the British Foreign Office & 5 to the Soviet
was & Soviet spy and monsh
after month transusilted se-
3 Soviet
what quantity we
Bul Petrov
thal Second &
He declares
retary Kishyi~
sxikassy in
MacLean ia had keen London
second 1 Br aud told him ‘Petrov? that
Enmibassy in JW ON he Rad handied the material
dur ing his s
pied, pis Borat
NOT RE aoe ngs
6 leg a6Gr's
wi ch were pid! aoe in
the Soviet Embsasy and q rieic~
the “mare
ent information and catle
ow, The rest be pr
yared for dispatel: by courier
dq the diplomatic bag."
Shis strangely paraliels the
ADE Retroy
national cammities of
mats which dealt with atomle-
enersy information.
For four years now it has
been reported that the two
men were beliind the Ton Cr,
tain, but the Britisin Pore
Office never confirmed ¢
TYow, fromm the pen of Vinci
Shviet’ Embassy im Australia velationstip of Alger iiss of
ahd told many details of the Ub U.S. Departmeni of State
Soviet_spy system, has come and Whittaker Chambers,
he whose “pumpkin. papers" di
closed the documenseste-E8t
“it Warns out th
Hunt after
wot Br Forean ©
fice
stunved lovesiigating Sines
dé Burgess, the two men
sned of the danger and told
the Soviet govermuent, which
hisiped them te escape and |
liter brought Mus. Mack.
ean
and the children to Moscow,
The family nov ing ghere,
. impor BaShOnS
arise Im commetiion with the
pis One is why the Brite
Ish seeurity system didn't tance
tion eit
Mackean and By
Bu and what possible etfeo
were WEE On Soviet Boliay
bane theary advanced
etroy is tuat MacLean anfi
MwESS are today advising te
ovict gavermment on how to
handin|Great Britain andfihe”
United {States in the field of
diplomacy. It may he
the. x ROHS Sevier
armor af The
They
have inside ivermation about,
Ame ova axed British relations
t was
4 on in Mexeow de~
wofied to informaiton received
bu MacLean and Burge:
The two Agents were t
en while al Cambridge Uni-
Petrov writes:
visin was im Lender
he
fe
Mining course,
peciahzed in English, he was
pointed te the &
te of the Comms
special gix
the topencettt Rr
Section 0
chives.
Mr. Tolson
Mr, Boardman |
Mr, Nichois
ate Me, Belmont
Mr. Harboe __
- ME. Mohr
Mr, Parsons
Mr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr, Sizeo
Mr, Pinterrowd __
Tele, Room .
Me, Holloman aon
“Phys section was “ devptec
sofely te the great quantit} o
miterial supplied by Macileat
argl Burgess.”
yeaes i048) ws
1882 important events wer
ivappening iu the United State
ef dirzet concern lo the Com
monists. ‘fhe Karen wa
1880. MiMbar
gess when they Sante to "0
te Uhem amid also iim
ping it worihent
ainly is to be hehe
those British newspape:
whch hace been sueering «
ih
American security syqs
nage isn’t after ail just a fi
Senator McCarthy
agingtion and that “guill }
if fellowe
and thelr fetends, would ha’
aped the plot befo
did. Eyen a
ib ihe subieet of nioy
s shown by a previp
vestigation of the person
ecards of the two men wap
pave raised a que
Wash. Post and
Times Herald
Wash, News
Wash, Star é
N.Y. Herald Tribune _
N, ¥. Mirror
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