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“of the most serious newspaper Eden and Cabinet Meet — LONDON, Sept 21 ().—Prime, Minister Eden met with his cabi- net today to put final approval) on a government report on the! Burgess - MacLean spies” case. Sir Anthony, To Approve Spy Report | vena i fully recovered, Meanwhile, British news-, papers continued to Jash the For-, eign Office. "The Daily Express said the two jmen fied from England in 1951 ter hey received a warning ‘om “a British official in Wash- ington. ” described, by the paper from a recent attack of influenza,|i0" drove to London from his country: home to preside. ‘The cabinet met in the midst attacks made on the Foreign Of-, fice in recent years for. its: handling of the case of Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, Brit- ish diplomats who fied to the't8ct in Washington.” who in turn) Communist East in 1951 after serving as longtime Russian: spies. For four years the Foreign’ Office, under both Labor and) Conservative governments, main-/ tained tizht secrecy over detalls: of the men’s defection. This was, broken last week end when former Petrov desciosed they had been, Soviet agents for 20 years. Disclosure Cofirmed ‘The Foreign Office then con- firmed Petrov's disclosures and said Burgess and MacLean were under investigation when they fled. Spurred by angry newspaper | criticism, the government prom-. ised an official white paper Fri- ‘a Russian spy—he passed on j¥ho gave the tipoff?" the Ex- press asked. as “a Russian spy.’ In his official capacity he re- ‘ceived information that British} (security men were after the two} diplomats,” the Express declared.| “In his unofficial ‘capacity—as! the information to a Soviet con- warned Burgess and MacLean. “Who in fact is that third man. Had Defense Secrets Both Burgess and MacLean’ had access to allied secrets at al time when the whole Western) defense setup was in its forma-! Russian spy Vladimir itive stage. According to Foreign Office spokesman, secret documents of ;mportance were withheld from MacLean beginning in April, 1951. A man accustomed to.reading' top secret papers could™guess! that the flow to him was thin-! ning and that this could mean‘ hat he was being watched. In uch circumstances it would day giving full details of the cake nave been easy for MacLean to! ipsss the word to Burgess———~ 0-19 Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News ~Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror