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—~ a sy 0-20 VA. Mr. Tolson ke fost Mry Boardmef “ * MfNichol's 4 Mr. Belmont ”___ Mr, Harbo - . 7 Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons . Mr, Rosen CE ewe Nemetel oy pho Mr. Winterrowd — aes eo ve i s Tele. Room ._ j * ( a L Mr. Holloman —_ bags po ‘ Miss Gandy baht, BN ae (MACLEAN~BURGESS ) va THE CHILLING,-CLOAK AND DAGGER STORY OF BRITISH TRAITORS NERD MACLEAN AND GUY BURGESS SERVED AT LEAST ONE GOOD PURD SE, GOVERN OFFECIALS SAID. IT FORCED AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE T° SWITLY PLUG SECURITY GAPS USED SO SHAMELESSLY BY THE TWO SPIES FOR SOWIET RUSSTA BEFORE THEY VANISHED ON MAY 25, 1954. THE MEASURES TAKEN HAVE NEVER BEEN FULLY DISCL“SED BUT IT IS KNOWN THE U.S, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, THE STATE DEPARTMENT, AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LOST NO TIME GOING INTO ACTIONS ————--—- = ao i FOR THEIR PART, THE BRITISH ORDERED MORE EXTENSIVE SECURITY SCREENINGS FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THEIR FOREIGN SERVICE CORPS AND, oo PRESUMABLY, INVOKED TIGHTER SECURITY PRECAUTICNS' GENERALLY, 9° “7 - AMERICAN OFFICIALS WERE NOT SURPRISED BY THE “ACLEAN-BURGESS WHITE PAPER WHICH THE BRITISH RELEASED FRIDAY. THEY HAD KNOWN ITS CONTENTS FOR MANY MONTHS AND HAD LONG SINCE SET UP TIGHTER PRECAUTIONS, BUT NONE WOULD COMMENT FOR PUBLICATION. THE MACLEAN-BURGESS AFFATR JUMPED BACK INTO THE LIMELIGHT SUDDENLY WHEN VLADIMIR PETHOV, FORMER TOP AGENT OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET POLICE (MVD) IN AUSTRALIA, WROTE WHAT PURPORTED TO BE THE TRUE STORY OF THE . MACLEAN- BURGESS DEFECTION, PETROV HIMSELF DEFECTED IN APRIL, 1954, be AND EXPOSED SOME OF THE WORLDWIDE MACHTNATIONS “\ THE SOVIET ESPION SYSTEM, > 7 > ae - PHTROV CONFIRMED WHAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAD L9G RAROORBEE AD REMAYNED GRIMLY SILENT ABCUT -- THAT MACLEAN, SME Be cite 4 ORR THE CHANCERY OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY HERE IN 1944-43, 5 a AS fess TO U,S. SECRETS AND HAD A PASS TO THE PRIVILEGED SANCTUM OF THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION, So ao BURGESS LATER SERVED HERE AS SECOND SECRETARY “F THE EMBASSY, VE ALSO WAS PRIVY TO SOME SECRETS, MAINLY INVOLVING KOREAN POLICY. BUT HE DID NOT SHARE MACLEAN'S STATURE IN HIGH-LEVEL ECHELONS, PETROV TOLD HIS STORY IN A COPYRIGHTED DISPATCH IN THE CURRENT vf ISSUE OF U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT AND IN A LONDON NEWSPAPER, THE ae 4 Peed BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS WAS IMMEDIATELY THROWN INTO TURMOIL WITH DEMANDS THE GOVERNMENT. EXPLAIN WHY MACLEAN AND BURGESS. WERE ALLOWED TO FLEE BEWIND THE IRON CURTAIN WHEN THEY WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR TREASON, THE WHITE PAPER WAS ISSUED FRIDAY AS A RESULT. IT HINTED THAT BRITISH SECURITY MEASURES HAD 9EEN SO LAX THAT THE MERE FACT THAT MACLEAN'S WIFE WAS PREGNANT HAD DELAYED WIS ARREST. iT ALSO BROUGHT QUT THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A "THIRD" PERSON IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE CORPS WHO KNEW OF THE MACLEAN~BURGESS INQUIRY AND TIPPED THEM OFF IN TIME FOR THEM TO FLEE, \ ‘AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE APPARENTLY WAS ENTIRELY IGNORANT OF THE F MACLEAN-BURGESS OPERATIONS HERE, ELSE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SWIFT t CLAMODOWN, THEY COULD NOT HAVE ARRESTED EITHER OFFICIAL BECAUSE OF ‘ DIMLOMATIC IMMUNITY, BUT THEY COULD HAVE BRANDED THEM PERSONA NON ! GRAYTA AND DEMANDED THETR INSTANT RECALL, WITH ARREST SURE TO FOLLOW. HIS RULE HAS BEEN FOLLOWED RIGIDLY WHEN DIPLOMATS OF RUSSIAN an SATELLITES HERE HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED OF F THE SECURITY RESERVATION, ic O7BK- PRET NOT 19 105 Gasircroror news service a