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,000 WERE - INVOLVED | n some halt a dozen othe! eases it had been considered prudent to move officers to other work of less importance to the nalional security, or to accept their resignations When the leakage was dis covered the security service had to carry out a search in a fied of some 6.000 people. “There were 6,000 persons who might have been the © man.” There could be no doubt of the loyalty of the security ser- vice, “Much of their success s-and there are indeed suc. cesses—must be kept auiet. Any failure hits the headlines. In this service there is no fame, but patriotism is the sur or reward, Mr, Macmillan appealed to mbers- not to “spread ad-sa.false or outdated “picfure of the security service ee dt exists today.” . eferring to a suggestion in} a newspaper that some; means should have bee found of preventing Mrs. Maclean from leaving Eng- jand, he said: “Hitler would have found one; Mussolint would have found one ; Stalin would have got one. ‘The new arrangements “make a recurrence of this affair extremely improbable.’ Mr. Macmillan frequentls swung right round to face hi: ofa back-benchers. © | Hi arks about Mr. Philb where heard quietly. "Thi Huse was restrained through! thie. vole aes oyt the speech, ‘the Interryp: tins, when they came. seQming half-hearted. hen Mr. Morrison rose ; Speak, the benches. which h: already shown gaps in the ranks, thinned out further, When he said, almost at once, that he was less satisfied with the position than Mr. Mac- miilan appeared to be. it won no cheers from back benches “We all feel that this inci- dent of Burgess and Maclean grace to our country,” “Things have occurred in this way before. The noblest band of men in history had their Judas. He suffered, and ° I think these men will sufler in some way or another in due course.” EAK TO THE SOVIET t. Morrison said that fo far as he could recall he hi never met Burgess, He hati me, Maclean once, at a socid gathering He was Informed in the middie of April, 1951, in gen- erat terms, that there had been a leakage. The Security Service re- ceived ful! support from the Foreign Office, “I hope nobody will suggest that any- body in the higher levels of the Foreign Office responsible for these matters would have sought to protect any of their colleagues on a charge of espionage. Dealing with the record of the two men, he said: Maclean was guilty of really disgraceful conduct in Cairo ia -3950. He apparently got “drunk, got out of hand, went to a party in a flat and pro- ceeded to smash the place up. “Tt do not think that over- sfyain and drunkenness ate adequate excuse for conduct pf th}t sort by an importabt ofiber of the Foreign Offife serVing abroad,” the Labour ' Set i eS ve Te ee ca Se More about the Cairo ‘inc. lent came from Mr. Altr: jobens (Lab. Blyth), w id Maclean and a friend, bpth jn a drunken state, we ingo the flat of a girl who wai librarian at the United States Embassy in Cairo. She was absent. They forced their way in and then began to drink all that was available.. They pushed a lot of the girl’s clothing down “the lavatory, smashed.a table. and knocked into the bath a heavy piece of marble which broke the bath. A SHOCKING “STORY « ey returned to another fidt in the same buildibs. Mclean had homosexual thn- dencies when in drink, T! y collapsed on a bed and sll J asieep. In the evening Maciean’s wife found him, and with help halt dragged her completely sodden husband downstairs | and took him home, “Js the Right Hon, gentle- man telling me that everybody in the Embassy did not’ know about that? Is the suggestion that the White Paper reveals one half of that shocking story ?, “Jt was not the only incident there. He came back to this country, was given six months’ leave of abseuce, and then given this job at the Foreign Otfice.” Mr, Robens commerted = «Pisgraceful behaviour of the khhd Maclean followed, | not oily in Cairo or Washington