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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15

83 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 83 pages OCR'd
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-about the two traitors who fooled Cabingt inistgrs, duped the Foreign Office, and made a monkey of British security when they scarpered to Russia in 1951. : The nation will be outraged if Mr. . Macmillan faits to give all the facts in Parliament today. Won't fet anybody imagine that the Burgess-Maclean scandal is stale and ‘unimportant now. Working in Moscow today are two aha renegades who ran rings round sn have never told the full truth | Secret Service and struck a shrewd bldw at our relations with America. ry (o get a.worth while atom secret ont off av Amenvan > He wilt feact sinardy with questions like'these: "* What abobt iP chs ¢ What about Nunn May t What ‘about Pontecorvo! WHAT ABOUT jBURGESS AND MACLEAN?" : True—Burgess and Maclean did not thawk atomic gnow how to the Russians, y28 far as is known But when British itraitors skip off to Moscow America’s lreaction is to keep her atomic bag of tr icks ‘more than ever to herself, a .° "Mr. Macmillan can undo a lot of “harm today by coming clean about the .whole disreputable business.” The whole truth won't ditch Burges id Maclean now But it may show that {Mace Office has begun to profit fro] th past blunders . ! rn 9 * to Know: ‘The poblic want to know) WHO kept Burgess and Maclean in high Goverment posts long after it was plain that they were security risks ? ARK the security sleuths who allowed the traitors to escape still holding dowa their jobs ? “WHAT thie! ‘head put “olf searching Maclean’s housé for a month ‘* when Mrs. Maclean was expected to be away from home" t 7 ~ WHAT genus decided to-postpone the grilling of Maclean because that~would alert’’ him? WAS there a Third Man f An M. i s mentioned the name of a man,’ Is u is just allegation t ><." ‘! The Man Who © Knows > Today there is a man who- knows all about the First, Second and Third. Men in the Foreign Office Scandal. He is Mr Macmillan, the Foreign ‘Secretary: When be says his piece in the Commons this afternoon he need not worry about putting the best face on it to save the pride ‘of in jured officialdom Officialdom bas already taken a beating in the Burgess-Maclean serial. Let Mr. Macmillan worry about the public who.are tired of being treated like numskulls. The time for grudging admissions from reluctant spokesmen ' is over. Let’s have a bellyful of facts from Mr. Macmillan to answer all the questions the recent White Paper left unanswered. OTHING LESS THAN TH MLL SATISFY PARLIAMENT THE NATION,
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