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Ls WIFE IS TALKING TOO With Petrov ig Nis S5-year-old honey-blonde wits i. Evdokia. She was a cypher clerk in the enibassy—and j she was, it is fprther revealed, a key operative in the. secret police. . With her husband—in. political asylum in a hiding place in New South Wales—she is talking fast too. Courlérs gre bringing copies of their staternents by plane -net only’ fa London butto the Intelligence Departments of the other Western Powers. Revealed already are the detafls of most | Communist subversive activity in the West since 1945, when Igor Gouzenko, Russian cypher clerk in Ottawa, exposed the spy clings in Canada, . The leak. of Communist spy activities has become a Waterfall—so thet all branches of the Intelligence Services of NATO are now fully occupied checking facts, idenhfying agents, and tracing paymenta aco | “fth columnist” co-operators. And this work will go or for months—while the | Communist spy organisation will plainly have to be overhauled. MOSCOW REGRGANISES OM agents will ne longer carry trusty and, if atil | free, they will have. to-be recalled. AU thelr contacts i wil be utter observation. And fresh agents will find the going tough. ~ . Already, yesterday came. news of developments in Moscow, where Prime Minister Malenkoy has reorganised his Government. And the most notable change ts the setting up of a State Becurity Commitice, independent of Sergei Krugisy, the Minister of the Interior who succeeded Beria, the shot “ traitor.” To the head af this new commiftce goes General | Ivan Seroy, until now deputy to Krugiav. He becomes the. suprenie boss of Russia's espionage, counter. eaplonage, and sabolage achivities. And Serov, 48-year-old ladies’ man and Tavourtte of Stalin, with a jong record of undercover atrests in Russia, will have the task of reorganising his foreign services—in the Hyht of Petrov’s revelations. It is not vel known how much of Petrov’s disclosures wl he made public. Some will certainty be alred before ihe Royal Acapella. of Investigation which is being Bet Up. int, Ausfalia Maclean is alive--(1) An emissary placed £1,000 In a| NOW MPs MAY BE TOLD— | in Britain, the Foreign Office will decide how fag | i the freshly gained details of Burgess and. Macigan will be made available through Parliament Donald: “Maclean, immaculate but erratic, Was the 38-year-old head of the American Deparinient in the Foreign Office. Guy Burgess, shiftiess and erratic, was 40, and had been second ‘secretary at Washington, ~ They caught the steamer. Fatalse at Southampton on May 26, 1951, landed at St, Malo, took a taxi to Rennes, In Brittany—and vanished from the eyes. of © the Western world. __ Since then there have heen two indications that | Swiss bank for the henefit of his dependants; and (27 Mrs, Maclean and: her chiktren vanished eastwards from Geneva. last Gepteniber, And there Khas been one indication that. Burgess is aive—he sent Christmas greetings fo his mother, in | Arlington Houge, S.W.flast year, The Petrov story, when {t can. be told in fui. wil eamplete the Burgess and Maclean story—the most baffling in the histary of British Intelligence, | [World Copyright Reserved) SR iS TALKING | ~FAST HE VLABIMNIR PETRIE? Afiy secrets flown to London nth OM os . ea Sas