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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15
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LONDON, Nov. 10 t—A
Laborite member of Parliament
today withdrew his ch arge
that former diplomat Harold
3 hilby was the!
“third man”
2) the Guy
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ne _bisclean
2 cus Lipton told
, Commons he
“unre served-
ly” canceled
nis charge
Philby
former _ First!
Secretary at the British Em-)
bassy in Washington, was the,
man who tipped off Maclean|:
and Burgess to flee behind|.
the Iron Curtain.
The two suspected diplo-|
mat-spies escaped on May 25,
1951, the day the Government
had ordered them questioned,|
Philby, who had challenged
Lipton to repeat his charge!
outside the privileged floor of
“Commons said he was “very:
happy” Lipton had withdrawn
the charges.
“So far as IT am concemmed
the incident is now closed,” he
aaid.
that Philby,|!
i rn
diplomatic service in 1951 be
cause of Communist associ:
tions while in college.
Lipton said he studied Ma‘
millan's statement carefully
along with Philby’s later]
denials.
“I am satisfied,” he said in
Commons, “there {s no justi-
fication for the allegation that
Mr. Philby is the person w!
warned Burgess and Macleal
or that he engaged in dubi
Foreign Secretary Harold third-men activities.”
Macmillan last week cleared '— a
Philby of the charges and said
there may not have been a
tipoff man at all, He an-
nounced that Philby had been
asked to resign from _ ths
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