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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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U-LY (Ll-22-35) _
Says Burgess, Maclean Had-
Access to Atomic, War Secrets :
GNASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ans) —Guy Burgess and Don+
ald‘Maclean had access to a vast storehouse of U. 5. atomic
and psychological warfare secrets, a British book called “The
Great Spy Scandal,” declared Monday.
THE AMERICAN version is
published in copyrighted form in
the Feb. 17 issue of U. S. News}
and World Report by arrange-
ment with the London Daily ex-
press, which published the book
in England.
Disclosures in the book include
these:
Maclean held a position of
“extraordinary responsibility”
‘as secretary of the Combined
fee on Atomic
& pass
which admitid him to the
Attomic Energy Conunission
offices in Washington “at any
time of the day or night.”
The book quotes Dean Acheson,
U.S. Secretary, of State at the
time of Maclean's dissappearance
behind the Iron Curtain, as hav-
ing exclaimed: “My God, he knew
evervthinr *
JUN 22
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Ps Riv Deed
DURING his tour
oid secretary in the
British Embassy in Washington,
“managed to acquire the blue-
prints of the $250,000,000 psycho
logical welfare planned by Washe
ington to reach behind the Iron
Curtain.”
Maclean le to tell the
Soviet regime how the Western
Alles planned and worked to-
gether, and how best iheir rela-
tions could be dana:
suspicion repli
Owen Brewster, former Repub.
lication Senator from Maine, was
quoted as having said that Mac-
Tean was believed to have “a
thorough knowiedge of secret
Anglo-American exchanges on
such subjects as the North At-
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