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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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ur Burgess” 40, disappeared from:
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. en May” 26... ee
“""The State’ ‘Departmer
: Rawever, that Mr.MacLean.am
Ls M4 oh baby Rates < 2
aeonsiderable amount-of infor! By LETFER 38s 4 1976 © of
‘ion on the U, S..atomic energy pri PER FOIA REQUEST
gram.: He got: this information in > Mr: MacLean - - i
1947 and 1948 when’ he was secreé- me "Or Me mrorme i oN eta rag eteg ge neta’
“tary of the Combined Policy Com: pole to ‘him in 1947; and 1948,”, th anization” get. good » marks.” But}
it is suggested that:
mittas which dlecided atomic -mat- epartment | said, “was ~ classifi t
ove’
ith which the’ British security
ganization might otherwise :
- peer a
, ters" for ‘the “Us ‘Sy Canada‘ “and! a would then have been useful at
: /Britain.*~, ie Pee ah ve Ty 2 [that time to the Soviet atomic ener
* *The P BY, program and strategic Dianners.
State Departmen “Berause of the changes in the
rate and scale of the U. S. program
_in the intervening years, the. infor-
mation available to him-then would
not now: he of any’ appreciable ald j
te the USS. wox
The fact remains ° “that. ur. Mac!
~
1 Lean and Mr. Burgess | did compile
maga “calmed Mi Ma ‘R ‘great deal of knowledge’ u useful . .
ew how -man atomic’ Saaee e Pater,
“'bembs'the West had, what were the; to the Soviet Union. Between them NOT RECORDED
thev also had - knowledge’ of codes, WAS nen wm eee:
am OCP axe 1961
uranium resources an how -n ates
‘ bombs: could: be, es and with vexist-| of North Atlantic Treaty qeeanee
: ese
“jing ‘sources and‘ ‘materials? °s x
The department pointed ‘out , Mr.
MacLean assumed: his’ job as -sec-
“retary of the Policy. Committee. here
in’ February, 1947.0 ptt stg:
i
tion anti-Communist plans, Japan
peace treaty objectives and no 4o tell: Page
ing ,what other.. information: which.
they- might have- obtained outside
¥ he,
yp tnelr own areas of aut
; POLITICAL ISSUE ns
‘Since 1946,” the de artment said, : a ;
“here has exchange 0 Disappearance” ‘of? “MacLean* "an
Lormation. once i anable Burgess on May 26 has ‘become’ a
material prod erial. pro uction... c processes, | hot political issue in. Great B tain.*
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vo x » 4 Wash. Post
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Weapons techno segs nna Ome aa eecclemt Conservatives accuse” the “Soc Wash. News &
ments Or “st ockpiles 0: Issionabl British government of negligence.; —
The assumption from" the moment: et = — : tu
of their flight from ‘London has4 ... an . « Wash, Star™
been that the two,men fled, pehind ve —
. formation” of * the” three~ natio ee uri ata hh ; ag . ~ oy
ormation ‘nations’ ||. p Security. experts ere. ma ge - ‘ : a or i
‘for peacetime uses,’ Hyinsh Soclalists fo be une] - Y. Mirror ___
amounts of: uranium, .fthe . A-bomb1 3 oes a oraach to on,
“ ingredient)‘, “available’ to/ the’ three’? un espionage. Biri e - N. Y. Compass
* countries af'that'time and what the | Hilal sheror| . __
| committeg;« considered *- ul bet fe rere) Tie ;
3 classified, - or-. Kept ‘secret, ¢ a0) .
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