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far Weapons: Reuters” LONDON, Feb, 12—Russia’s| presentation of Burgess and Maclean yesterday was staged ite drive a wedge between the United States and Britain and! to try-to prove that the West jis perpetuating the cold war, highly placed British officials said tonight. At the same time, both Con- -servative and Labor.Party mem- bers of Parliament announced a campaign to try to make the) Foreign Office reveal more Lol Diplomats Seen Used by Soviet To Sever Ties of‘Britain and U.'S. gess, who vanished behind the/Maclean statement aimed to tron Curtain in 1051. take pressure off Soviet The highly placed officials)Premier Nikolai Bulganin and hi ere said that in its timing of/Communist Party Chie€ Nikita . the ex-diplomats’ reappearance|Khrushchev when they visit the Krem! odjectives: 1. To sow discord between| London and Washington, . 2. To woo both Communist bloc and neutral nations to the lin had two main}Britain in April. Reporters un- doubtedly would have fired questions at them about the missing diplomats. . [The United Press reported from London that some Britona belief that it is the West which|Speculated that Burgess and is the aggressor in the cold war, Maclean may chave used their skill and knowledge of Anglo- American policy to. ghost-writs ht tails about the ex-diplomats,| Many }diplomalie observers| ‘hnald Maclean and Guy Bur-there aled felt that the Burgess-l See DIPLOMATS, Pg. 6, Col, ‘LOST ipiomats oeen DIPLOMATS—Fr. Pg. I cthe recent Bulganin letters to President 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 Imprint”) The political pressure on the Foreign office will begin Mon- day in the House of Commons, , When at least three MPs will fire pointed questions at Govy- ernment Ménisters. Labor! 1, Marcus Lipton id he Xhpught the Burgess-! Haclean st@tement made a Gov-; t.frpment White Paper on the t se, -last’ September, | look a “even a bigger insult ithe time.” Conservative Capt. in view of their statement the ‘give the British people the full jand unvarnished dal.” Reuters correspondent Sid, ney Weiland reported from Moscow that diplomats there der,for.the dramatic reappca: ance of Burgess and Maclean. They feel that the Burgess. |Weiland, another British corre- ers yesterday, might have been! intended to impress the Rus- sian people by suggesting that. there were doubts and appre- hensions even in the British Foreign Office about United States policy. 50 FEBI7 1956 © believe Khrushchev gave the or-' The statement was pwbtistret® Used to Disrupt Allies | ‘ to in-!in all Soviet papers today with, tetligence than J thought it atjno comment. , Burgess and Maclean tonight; Henry; were still mystery men. There; Kerby declared, “I hope that/is no clue as to where they went’ vafter they left the correspong- |Foreign Office will at Jong last/ents yesterday and walked aw: in the Moscow fog, Weilartd) truth about said. . 'this grim and unsavoury sean-{" —— Maclean statement, handed to; - ispondent and tw@ Soviet report) PER fo. aquest, Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mason - Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease VWinterrowd —_____ Tele. Room Holloman Gandy NOT RECORDED — 126 FEB 16 i956 Wash. Post and _—- Times Herald tg / Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror _—____ N. Y. Daily News __— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader | DELETED COPYSEET OLB prac. Qonokss BY LETTER JUN 22 1976 BL