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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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ars Express Political Correspondent - j
IR ROGER MAKINS, who lis now ambassador in Wath.
ington, watched; checked -AND-CLEARED. Donald
O Maciean at the Foreign Office ;
| vanished, it was - :
disclosed last night, - '
And in the House of
Commons Colonel Mar-’ |
cus Lipton named Mr.
Harold Philby, a former
Foreign Office official,
las a “Third Man” in’
the Maclean-Burgess
case, °°
The vital fact about Sir
Roger Makins was not
included in last month's
White-paper,- . :
It came out tn the House of
‘Lords yesterday when the
Marquis of Reading. Minister
of State. Foreign: Office. sald
about Maclean :— '
i @ackety, experienced Under. °
' @s cretaty who supervised the
. depafument’ was watching him
. with special closeness towards
the end of the time before his.
disappearance just’ to" see,
‘whether there ‘was anything
{which indicated’ that” Mr
Maclean was not performing his”
dutles ‘satisfactorily at that »
moment, and he came’ to
the conciusion ‘that there |
was Robbing to which
exception could be be]
That UnderSecretary,. the
Foreign Office said later, was
: Sir Roger Makins,
Maclean and Burgess vanished
in May I95t. Sir Roger became
. Washington ambassador = in
January’ 1953,
Why then? »
The case of the diplomats was
proysht 4p in the Lords yesterday
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7. Maclean performed his tum the On ete barrister with » public
ob dai ates, feusiactordy up School accent (Winchester) whe
7 AND i .
{At piso speak Broadway stage |
{
7 ‘ ¢ 18 a Damon Runyon fan)
“We knew Br. Macleag's - His. Sir Roger has six children
ckpround, we knew his disth. fl | two sons’ and four daughters}
ghisied career in the ‘Forde Overseas was ax Seco and an’ American wife. wh
ce up to that time, and thefe 4 Washington in ig tes = he met during his. first assig!
's no reason to entertain a: Since’ then he has ment in the US.¢00 joa e
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