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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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ritain and the United States; —
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Mr. Lioyd rose in the House of!
fommons to single out Soviet|
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov,
ljand Communist Party Boss Ni-
kita S. Khrushchev by name.
He accused them of “Jack of
candor” in shrugging off British]
attempts—as late as a month)
ago—to trace Burgess and Mac-|
lean,
Mr. Lloyd conceded the Rus-
ySlans may try to use for propa-|
Iganda purposes a statement is~
‘sued by the two at a five-minute
Bews conference in Moscow Sat-)
urday, but added sharply:
“No credence can be placed
in their words.”
.. The Foreign Secretary said!
that if the Soviet leaders are try-
ing to “drive a wedge between
ghe United States and Britain .. |
en it will fail.”
Churchill in House
Just before the Burgess-Mac-
\i2an case came up, Sir Winston
‘Churchill entered the chamber
‘in one of his rare visits since
jretiring as Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Eden went
jover to whisper to him,
Burgess and Maclean, who
vanished in May, 1951, came out,
jof hiding in Moscow Saturday
land denounced | Butish, and
Britain accused
irgess and Donald
jand Maclean
Britain Hits Red Deceit /”
On Burgess and Maclean’ =
Russians today of
Maclean for almost
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd declared that any attempts to
tse the renegade British diplomats now to drive a Wedge between
Department of the British For-
eign Office, as the suspected
Soviet spy before he fled. —“¢!
Mr. Lloyd explained that né|
suspicion had been aroused about:
the 44-year-old Burgess,
Moscow correspondents re.
ported Burgess seemed to be the
more dominant of the two when
the runaway diplomats showed
jup at the restricted news con-
ference in a Moscow hotel on
Saturday,
Petray Accuses Pair
In Canberra, Vladimir Petrov,
former Soviet spy chief in Aus-
tralia, declared yesterday Burge:
lied when the!
asserted they never were Soviell
agents.
Mr. Petrov, who deserted hi
“spy job in April, 1954, and turned
over to Australian authorities a
huge pile of secret Soviet docu-
iments on espionage operations,
issued his statement through the
Australian Security Service.
“Burgess and Maclean worked,
for the MGB (Soviet Ministry of;
State Security) and gave much
secret information.” said Mr.
Petrov flatly. “For these reasons|
the MGB arranged for Burgess|
and Maclean to travel secretly|!
‘to the Soviet Union when British|
American foreign policy In a
Prepared, typewritten statement,
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