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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 16

50 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 49 pages OCR'd
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Ayal STER SAYS SECURIT MEASURES SOUND Pledge on- Individual Rigbts: M.P. Thinks Officials Shielded Burgess BY OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE WESTMINSTER, Wednesday. Major Lloyd-George, Pome Sceretary, submitted cy the House of Commons to-night that the Govern- nents security arfangements were fundamentally -ound and paid due regard to the position of the individual. RITAIN LES DOWN Backbench Plea Tt-Col. CORDEAUX (C., Notting am C.. vecalling mistakes made a the Burgess and Maclean case, Sua it was impossible to say that there Was nothing wrong with our security Rrangements.. Those respens'oie Lor those lapses should wot be left hosiions where Uney cold again y Briain down. *. REDHEAD (Sec. w. Wal- stow) old. the House ia a Maen speech he had been a clvil Earvant for 40 years. He asserted that most civil servants were loyat Nothing could co creaier damage Penn 16 crete the impression that the Civil Service was riddled with im Come anist conspiracy or Was o¥ey Greed with, polential traitors, mor perveris and deunquents. MM (C,, Hove} res ferred to the case of a Nasionsy who at Oxford he Service man tte was replying to Socialist doubts, expressed during & | jomed a Communist Oats tion, He te bas e 4 . BB) Mas not allowed to go before & sles gate based on ‘the recent report, by the Conference of Privy | {ign hoard for porential officers bul nsellors. whether procedures 3 opted since ess and Maclean might be jc to abuse. hs will be a bad practice if pcopie into the habit of quoting te lite said tlic Government would )Walte Paper as though it were 2 TP eauld to prevent these pro. British Bibi eon security. Th is nob. aes fom impingivg oa human [OS reper Ay. applicable in a Aer vats. yow lield only. . ‘burning to Lhe problem of charac ening the debate, Mr. fier defects as atfecuns ser arity, Mr. NGER (Soc, Grimsby) said that | Younser, said tae list given was le vhe war ‘acre bad been sone | usualiy w sevice AE failings such 8& Of the fnilure of | drunkenness, addiction te aus “gure in that subversion # omosexualily oF any loose VIDE. weve not detected UAL} “TZ pope the Government will not t fmake the mistake of supposing thar “phere is jwtly general accept: | the sins wh affect. security are by the puulic that we must be |onty whe more Rabelaisian sins. stanly reviewing | our socurit, 4 can think of ether defects of charat KaMrents, We five in an age | ter just as kele So make somebody ‘ribed as tte Age of Treason. | oie to blackmaal ov pressure, as for yet nearly ail of us believe Unat, [instance, beige seriously 1B debt.” he overwhelming majority, CUF | Some of, the peon’s Yable to be is serves Of all yanks are | (he most Cangerous, were rble and loyal elzens lfaeatists of the piglet personal Lae Government had given figures [eharacter aud inteatiy who were dong That ia. the higher grodes | Senne © diferent loyalty wing tes rvice im Ye, jst eight | An ineffotent, securty, system, not He Civil uniber wlio Had beer, dis- | propery and rationally supported by cantih OF moved or who had re | the Governmen) would merely ibe x moves Ginter securiiy | vice she occasional gating faiure was smd. which led io prblie alarm and the TC une figures in the lower grade | Spy, main and wieh-nuntuing wnich ce as encournging I Shall be glad.” had oceurred ih thé United States. SHOVING WHITE PAPER “Cho Oppssition were oreparcd to ; support tle Governnient im tacking ‘ot British Bible” tine problem $0 Sar as was neces y fe acceptert ihe view of the White ha ho more, ‘Fhey would watch Tribal mG whew statutory pore with the ¢@losest viylanee how the STrevedures opel ‘uted in practice, ‘ber Ft ihe introdticed. Bul be added: || cause sone fof whem were cles Yt Abuse. Loren, BYGLAvD open Wo alse NDATLY PELECRAPE APB MORNING TOST! 3/22/56 - Fe 13, & 283 e cane: jonage iairly late “Tae the defection bf | was never the} | ded | givers m reason. Many undergraduates joined foolisit clubs and they should not oe | \prapded for the rest of their byes They should have an oppor whether they were ‘explain tainted. MR, HOUGHTON 4) WORKED WI BURGESS ” OFFICERS’ BALLURE OUGHTON (Soe Sowerby? was one of the concluding in the aileir, of Burgess ] worked in Close for unree Mr. F chapic and Maclean Aseucintion with BUEtss ate and T have always foumd it Meet to. believe a great deal of gies has been said about bi. [The wouble sbouk Burress iinre of one security arra put a failure of His supe 5 to judge his: behaviour courageously aid objecuiveiy. “Anyone who had cle: coninet with him could ive geen nol only His brilliant intellect but piso Cie ects of bis conducl and beba- yiour, and could have judyed how viomiable he mighi become: it ver dain citeumstance: That was fniiure of the normal operation of (the judament of supesicr ollie “A weakni ii public admin | ration 's tne failure ol members of feuiar class ta judge, obi’ lively and ouragcousiy mc of tire same class.” He would nov [Surprise if nat was nob the Gealanation of what happese [unis casi | not a men Bufile 100-37h183 CP MAR Khoo a — PER POA nee cel oa ; igi apa a NIVURSILY CAUSE "'Riotous Living” {Most of this trouble comes: ? i ty graduaves, Tt) jhumaram Civil Servant howler Rat and umoreita who catch the 8.29 from Virvoria who sub prehable. He is nai cre one for whe pone Wi Aper Lins ect “Th sens to met (Universes invol and a auve of Sor so Liat pe into the Sorvieg in. their exper Fences as imidergendiite his is tt people hang toxe! iher round to ss from the aricival gaze oF ¢ wha migit expect. better of trent j_ There is no doubt tat ie b> the lowersgrade Civil Servant whe sien dauanmmeh ve eof being buat! (ou Lor G oy thidesiraale be- i ¢ shan roof the ad [manure 6h Mi GIL Vand Site) gaat ¢ wised isn was 1 | Slood it, Maclean was ain io Telurs ta. work Ottice Ger the Nt TR ees DED :
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