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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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‘ATost’
Used to
DIPLOMATS—Fr. Pg. 1,
the recent Bulganin letters to|
Presiden; Eisenhower.
{Both Maclean and Burgess are
trained diplomats. Maclean par-|
ticularly is well-equipped to
advise the Russians. The London
Sunday Times noted that “the
most striking example was (Mar-/
shal Premier Nikolai) Bulganin's:
letter to President Eisenhower
on disarmament last summer.
_~-The Jast.two Bulganin letters to,
President Eisenhower (on!
- friendship treaties) ... were also
thought to bear the Maclean
Amprint.”]
The political pressure on the
Foreign office will begin Mon-
day in the House of Commons
when at least three MPs willi
fire pointed questions at Gov-
ernment Ministers.
Laborite Col. Marcus Lipton
said he thought the Burgess-
Maclean statement made a Gov-;
ernment White Paper on the
Diplomats Seen
e2se_tlast September, look’
+e
Disrupt ‘Allies.
“even a digger Insult to in-/in all Soviet papers today with
telligence, than I thought it at/no comment.
the time.” Burgess and Maclean tonight,
Conservative Capt. Henry|were still mystery men. There)
Kerby declared, “I hope that/is no clue as to where they wen’
in view of their statement the} after they left the correspont
Foreign Office will at long Jastjents yesterday and walked awaj
give the British people the fallin the Moscow fog, Weilani
ind unvarnished truth about)said.
u is grim and unsavoury scan-
jal.” .
Reuters corréspondent Sid-
ney Weiland reported from
Moscow that diplomats there
believe Khrushchev gave the or-
‘der for the dramatic reappear-
ance of Burgess and Maciean.
They feel that the Burgess
Maclean statement, handed to
Weilapd, another British corre-
spondent and two Soviet report»
ers yesterday, might have been
intended to impress the Rus-
4sian people by suggesting that
there were doubts and appre-
nensions even in the British
Foreign Office about United
States policy.
The shatement wan-pobistied|
By LETTER JUN 22 1976
PER FOIA RLQUEST, eS a
Ae Lt re a
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