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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26

66 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 66 pages OCR'd
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/ _ shaken Britain, In a -face-to-face collision i Cc iT acmillam and LONDON, July 2 (AP)—La- finding the spies was a secu- bor Party leader Harold Wil-jrity suecess—not a failure— son accused Prime Minister|and angrily told Wilson he Marold Macmillan today ofjthought his remarks offensive. taking a petulant attitude and} “You really must learn to trying to laugh off the scx/distinguish between invective and spy scandais which havejand insolence,” the Prime ih Minister added. The row was touched off by: the House of Commons,ja dispute over the way the Macniillan snapped back that!Conservative Government han- / of ae a m8 “2 SELB 1984 y-6F +1 & Se LS Yin a © bs-6804 > - “Row Over Security - O- Wilson | dled recent security disclo- sures, These were topped by yesterday's revelation that! diptomat-turned-newsmen Har- ie Philby was the mysteffous) “third man” who warned ren- legade diplomats Guy Burgess land Donald Maclean to flee England in 1951. Burgess and Maclean have been in Moscow since and Philby is believed to have slipped across the Iron Cur- tain since he disapppeared from Beirut last January. Commons Stunned News that Philby, once first secretary of the British em- bassy in Washington and be- lieved head of security there, has actually been a Sovict agent stunned the House of ‘Commons. When Macmillan was Forcign Scerctary in 1955 he had said there was no evi- dence against Philby. Verbal sword-crossing in ‘Commons first started when a Conservative member of Parliament asked Macmillan if he planned to appoint a Minister of security. ' The Prime Minister repticd, that he would have to await) the result of a judicial in-| quiry into the John Profumo- Christine Keeler - Yevgeny Ivanov affair before deciding, Wilson then asked if Mac- millan would appoint a new judicial inquiry into the Phil- by affair “assuming you have lenough” judges to go around.” He charged Macmillan with ducking questions. The Prime Minister replied angrily that “the questions you have put to me were com- plicated and offensive.” He continued: “If we are to reach a situa-' tion when every success of the security services is treated! as a failure, we are going toj have a vested interest in not} Gistuvermg a failure.” ——— a Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad —___.___ DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy ‘The’ Washington Post and Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News —___ The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune ___ New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journal ._____ The National Observer Date 12:6 bs -bPovs PK NOT RECORDED 191 JUL_5 1903 aeretwat, FILED IN ~
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