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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 5

54 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 31, 1950 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 53 pages OCR'd
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at ae. gph * Headline. ‘that’ started: ‘it all. | : ar * gy WILLIAM BARKLEY™ Be SORES a ns Me MORRISON, the Foreign Secretary, told the Commons. yesterday that it: "was information published in’ a" London . national newspaper (the Daily, Express) ra which. compelled him to issue his state-- ale ' ment on the two missing diplomats last _ Thursday. The Daily Express story” . appeared that morning.” ~ ee, The Foreign Office, he said, had establish a te - on May 29, a,forinight yesterday, that the tyo_ me, Mr. Donald“Maclean and Mr. Guy ‘Burgess+-: |. - fo. we absent abroad: ee , _ ¢Miss Irene Ward ' (Tory, ' Tynemouth)*| « eo, _askéd: “How did ‘this information come to be, ee mad e _Public,. having regard to’ the need for. eo 2 eee Keepin ‘it as secret as’ fe “a ip le until you” we a ‘Could deal .. with the. vee . facts of the case?” “s : _* Mir, Morrison answered .4T have a lot of aevpathy' with that-viewpoint. When" , inquiries were instigated on. I the Continent. it is possible: ; there was a leak. “4 “We did not Issue our own, ‘ announcement — which I did. . ‘not particularly want to do: ; — ; ; -for the reason given. by milsgj ; a » aun - ' Ward. “|G us roe - “But we hed te do it because! { Plone : ene London national newspaper ag ; i : -had some Information an i ie . "uplished & story about: it. . . was the Dally Express. ae dive eee Sap SOOT sos ery Bait Tan, Rie BE a Pa . ee Se a ee
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