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. Office Memorandum + onirep states Gove y" _t BE, Ye Boardman Ge me _PATE:March 16, 195 can .. CHYoe- ; : —- supjectT: DONALD DUART MACLEAN; - eth ene - -* GUY FRANCIS“DEWoNCYpS vzcnss wr pant ESPIONAGE ~ R ae : Conference of Priby Councillors on Security " (White Paper), °~* published 3/6/56,~ This study was the result of the FParlianentar debates in Nov. 1955 of the Burgess-Maclean case, ‘The Paper sta it would not be im the public tnterest to publish full text of the report made by thé;conference or to make known all its recommendations though the Paper.gives the substance of the report. tnsofar as tt ould be made public. “It states the chief risks today are from _.. Communists and persons who are under Communist tnfluence as the Communist ‘faith overrides a man's loyalty to his own country and. induces belief that tt is justifiable to hand over secret information to a Communist power. ‘The risk from Communists extends to their .... sympathizers, The chief problem of security today ta-to identtfy . and keep informed of the activities of members of the British CP and ~ their sympathizera, foe et - oe S . aS | "+> Attached ta copy of "Statenent on the Findings of the & The nain concluston of the conference was that there ta .... nothing organically wrong or unsound with the Government's - present security “arrangements; however, certain recommendations are being made to strengthen the system in some respects. Such recommendations . are as follows: - : - a) ‘ “=. ¥7 1) Departments should be kept informed of enployees® © ot character defects auch as honmosezuality, drunkenness, drug addiction _ or other loose living that may affect a man's reliabdilttys. Zyr* . . wt dike ~— -- . 3 £a Pare ~ ve . «> 2) Department heads and supervisors should know eirn 5 F I}| starts and report onytning, that affecta: security, * = 4 ws * . m —_ . ne if = 3) 4 serious Cees O eae i. -. factor” - inca degiston to dtanias iployee oF trans cet Rate Mer works ate eT mM “yy 4) A Communtet should be barred fron explounent on =~ Secret work and in some departments bein’ LMURt ST have an ~ unfavorable effect on his prospects of p enero fi ae . = ~~ sane 5), Ihe Paper referred to recommenda of the conference re relatives ant .associates Qf employees who are Communists even though the employee te not Tt did_ ‘state what the recommendations were; | Gea ost EDPrenb" ( 3) oon Peteerehy HAR DT SE