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Me Basle / 1 te We Too Lax or Too Tough , 'on Security Ri Fea arene i Just-at a time when there has be: { ‘a flood of Propaganda to the effe/t . a. that we have been too tough in te : BRANIGAN execution of our security laws, there is evidence that Great Britain was LA much to lax in the same field,-Britain'’s J inner sanctum was penetrated by ene- pr My agents. What the agents were able S fo tell the Russians hurt the United jr States too. . gi i The reason the Soviet sples were able to penetrate the British Forel, Office was that Britain's security sets up Is inadequate. In the United Statdé we have suffered because of the samié complaint, "The British suspected Donald Mac- uy Burgess Were security h ey couldn't do anythin, about i" The suthorities could not | even er enor, ence to arrest them noueh "Montana Standard" : We have suffered because. of the Butte, Montana oe same thing. However, we seem to have October 1, 1955 ; . done more about it than the British, 2 + If this condition had been recogn . a te | time we undertook with Gree Editor - Law Risken can _ fA. Fas Fuchs, the German-born British ° : (UW lL us fect who came pver here to help the project and who turned out to . [be « Communist spy, The British knew . : e had @ Communist background but ipparently decided it was Meaning. eine Ge ea Ye spy ¢ because he man- 22/43 - Ar aged to meak ‘out of this country the (42 4. 20 Ye? es was at a eal i. vantage in’ diplomatic negotlatins 126 DEC 12 955 - with she Soviet Unfon, because of the succe: atomic lonage, Sovi , _— - pclentistr knew the aternte secrets, bof, — we did rst know. they knew them, W. posec that we were at least tiv’ i re : yee ab. ad of the Soviet Union in the [eR : Mok Dd Atomic field. - : 7 ur CB. Me puaDed DELETED. COPY SENT Xs Q EY LETTER JUN 22.1976 oh: WOT RECORDED * sopeci th ALOK AS ANN Sal