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= ctpmyy| Home Secretary, Solicitor Gen- 1, qu ~ yral and Attorney General, : i former Lord , TOSTUDY ES \aTY) Pest aewit'y Seer tae . ’ * leader in the of Lords. ~” Step ls Outcome of Maclean. the present He Secretary. © Burgess Spy Case—Lagor | Heabert Seputy leas- . | ef of the Labod party and for- Party Has Role on Board |! mer Foreign & Ter Lab ~ _ Minister. of Supply. ‘Special to The New Yors Thoes, Sir Edward who, a5 LONDON, Nov. 23—Prime} Permanent Secretary to the Minister Eden named seven| Treasury, Meads the Civil Prominent Britons today as al ee. oe Sommittee to peamine British}, All Privy Councll Members Security procedures and to con-|. All are members of the Privy’ sider whether they needed]. Council, which consists of emi- His action was % direct out-]i mer members of the Cabinet, ‘Srowth of the bitter criticism di-| | The Privy Council often acts as| - rected at the Government and); adviser to the monarch, Sts security services for their| | peter Anthony sald te term, 4 handling of the case of the miss-| | " "4 | exam! e security procedures’ ANE British diplomats, Donald | now applied So the wus service ” fu Maclean and Guy Burgess: and to consider whether any fur-* Maclean, head of the Ameri- ther precautions arp called for “ean Department at the Foreign and should be " Office, and Burgess, former Sec- , He sald the commpittee would ond Secretary at the Embassy in ave full power “to fend for any 7 ~ Ro Washington, fled Britain in "The decision to hold an inquiry May, 1951, while Maclean was was announced by Sir Anthony! . under observation on suspicion during a recent debate in Com-! of being a Soviet spy. Both have ons on the Burgess-Maclean! ~ been reported in the Soviet Un. 8¢. + an fon working for the Soviet Gov- as ernment, Sir Anthony told the House of Commons that the committee would report to him. But he add- ed that if the members recom- mended any changes in the law, “that would be a matter for this’ ‘hhouse.” Findings to Bé Secret His statement fidicated: that! he did not intend to make the . group's findings public except in cette we tee 0 far as they. related to sug- gested law changes. - Authoritative sources said the Government was reluctant to! make the outcome of the inquiry’ + public because it did not want, to disclose how the security sys- tem worked, -ensoweny GLB. mace Poodel Tt is also understood that oyfe ' of the chiet reasons for the - ointment of the committee yas Bi 2. UUN 22 1976 Fo convince the Opposition Labor party, which is represented on PER FOIA REQUESI. j P . : 3 of the diplomats have made it} _,at least equal in effectiveness tol, = . “those of other nations. * Those appointed are: Couticil and Leader of the House . of Lor ! . PS awe © ‘NOV 2 4 1998 pou bi a ’ eettar aren