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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14

85 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 85 pages OCR'd
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CBee Doe Leal } x / o is rome) Pane 2 Zt a = @ z 23 252 < x r fos - 2 a 2 3a we B@>G ana LONDON, Feb. 1a deceit in hiding Guy Bu ‘Sve years. ritain and the United States; — i tail. 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, ‘The Foreign Minister identi-! fied the 42-year-old Mactean, who was s head of the american} EES H hea ibe FRE hs —— . 3 iNiTiArED security authorities discovered that _ they Were vere Soviet—weesits-" Tolson Nichole Paes Belmont = Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror - N.Y, Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Pee ole —
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