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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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It puts into sharper tocus the charge of Gen-
erat Dauielas MacArthur, in his rebuttal of ex- .
President Truman, that a spy ring was success-
ful in purloining his top secret reports to Wash-
ington, including Korean war campaign plans,
and passing them on to the enemy. MacArthur
says significantly: -
. “It was not until the recent exposure of the pees won
British spies, Burgess and Maclean, that the true
facts began to unfold. These men with access to
secret files were undoubtedly links in the chain
to our enemy in Korea through Peiping by way
of Moscow...
“I myself have long been convinced that Red
China’s decision to commit its forces to the
- Korean peninsula was predicated upon assur-
etme te vw ances previously given through Moscow that
- . such intervention would not precipitate retalia-
tion against its attack bases.”
MacArthur urged that the ring be exposed
and treason trials instituted. Nothing was done.
Red China emerged as the dominant power of the
Far East. U.S. prestige suffered a blow.
The derisive laughter of Burgess and Mac-
Jean from their Moscow sanctuary is in answer
to those who minimize the continuing Communist
conspiracy, and who shriek the sneering cry of
2 - “witch hunt?” at all efforts to expose the menace.
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