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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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—— —~ 4 “Mr. Tolson
‘nurgess Tipster Worked Here Mr, Tota -— —
|e a Mr. Nichols
98 * r. Belmont —_____
vane Spy Coe Case fe Yto
amed i in Commons Mi Pane | —
Mr, Rosen
Poche tase ve 9. Hone sradieaig POC AMI | Mr. Tamm
“LONDON, Oct..22—The mysterious “thir an,” whose Mr. Sizoo
scp enabled Soviet spies Donald MacLean and . Mr, Winterrowd
Re urges to escape 2° counterintelligence het and dee Tele. Room
| hind is Tron. Curtain,. will be.named in Parliament
Mr. Holloman ——__
atter it meets Tuesday ——— . Mize Gandy
Norman Dodds, a Labor : Yo
. member, today demanded that.
Foreign Minister Harold Mac-
moillan unmask the tipster.
“it necessary,” Dodds ; der
clared, “I will stand up in'the
House’ Bs Gommong a and ame :
aitientity of this ‘mysterious
“Mr, X" has thus far been:
hidden by the Forelgn (Office.
Tipster Served Hera’:
The New York News 9 was: ‘n
formed today, however, that
the man Dodds will depounce
fs Harola A.B. Philby, 38.
Philby was made First Sec-
tary of the British Embassy,
in Washington in October, 1948,/,
when, he. was ‘ot 32 and hadi:
been in the British Foreign|:
Service a mere two years, His|:
rapid rise to such an important,
Bost is -best explained ty bis 7
Teal fob.-r .
‘Philby was, fa fact, an “Se
telligeace agent working for
the hush-hush MI-8, a branch
of the British Secret Service.
His Embassy assignment wag:
only a cover’
activities, 1’. ?
» Although the Foreign Office
ia dead sure Philby triggered!
the May 25, 1851, flight of Bur-
gess and MacLean, his only
punishment was being fired. »
Believed Unwitting Dupe ~ Wash, News
“One reason he was sacked). Wash. Star
without fanfare is that detec-|/ N. Y. Herald
tives believe he was the Rus-|
Wash. Post and Z
\ Times Herald
. san spies’ unwitting dupe, that|' Tribune
he did at even know they!: N.Y. Mirror
were traitors, =~ a Datly Worker
“In a white paper on the case, i
the Foreign Office admitted! The Worker
omen, that MacLean “might _havel: New Leader —_____...
been warned,” This official re:
a ‘ > ‘port issued last month said)
{ |*searching inquirles tnvolving|’
individual Interrogations were|'
made inte’ this possibility.” 4
«But, it added, there, was not
enough,
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