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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11
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In Our Government?
A very disturbing thought, even suspicion, has
found its way into the minds of many thinking
Americans. ;
It is this:
Somewhere high in
The Times never has been an ardent su
porter of Sen, Joseph R. McCarthy. Tris new
paper agreed with what he was trying to a
-comiplish but it did not go along with the met
ods he used. But hé had, and still
those supporters are thinking today along the
lines that there is a super Cormmunist spy clase
to the top men in our federal government.
we -An editorial in the Aug. 21 issue of “Our Sun-
our governmeht, or close day Visitor” is very revealing. Here it is in part:
munist s a mastermind _ “Last week we quoted Msgr. Wiliam ©. Mec-
St SPY, ‘ Cath and Bishop Cuthbert O'Gara to the effect
&
kane aaa tat ee be 70a lnktoe am that our diplomatic defeats with the consequent
wi : 7 ascendency of Communism are not, in their’
nanion of a bolicy-forming group in our govern~- ys wat
oat * . , : : opinion, due to American sb : ar -
ent. He may be so persuasive that the men with eee eewe te to Anierican stupidity. They are be
ql ing directed by some master-mind situated high
hom he associates do not even. realize the in-
uence he wields in the government. And Senator McCarthy had
: ctemetek to be destroyed because he was coming danger;
That thought, or suspicion, has many reasons : . " ae
ha ght, oF suspicion, y ously close to revealing the identity of this im
for existing. oriant perso?
First, how did so many Communists or Com~- porlan Pp Be sent eo
Now we have just finished reading a speet
is ; izers in yr government 1 . :
munist sympathizers get Into our BOvér nt 10 made by Republican Senator William E. Jen-
rears ao? a them there? : 7
and 20 yeats ago? Who put " ner of Indiana, in which he echoes the same dis-
The apparent ease with whien Moscow ob- :
: wep ws, . te turbing thought. Speaking before the Dallas Pub-
e it 4 diplomatic secrets . od AaB
tained American miliary an . P © ; lic Affairs Club, Senator Jenner said that “we
js shocking. F
The fact that Donald MacLean and Guy have two lines af authorley in foreign policy
making. Que is the Hne of responsibility laid
Burgess, British diplomats’ now revealed to be) Sovretityees .
long-time Soviet spies, worked in the American down in our Constitution and followed by ail
those who believe in our Constitution. The other
~ “section of th ritish F ffic further
sectiorr of the British Foreign Office has is a network whose members deliberately disre-
pkaring on that thought, or suspicion,
The Brilish government has announced it
1] tell in an official “white paper” the full, fan-
tastie story of MacLean and Burgess.
The bizarre case of thase two diplomats w
disappeared behind the Iron Curtain promises
to stir up a violent political storm in Britain,
‘with additional repercussions im the United
States.
“Phe Times realizes fully that the spreading of
the thought, or suspicion, that there is @ super
Commuiist spy loose In Washington could easily
hake the confidence of the American people.
Even so, it is better to have our confidence
haken if ib will root out that Communist super
py, if He ext
gard our Constitution, our President and our
Congress, and act as a law unto themselves...
“rhe Russell Committee, which investigated
} the dismissal of General MacArthur, and inv
es
tigations by the Senate Internal Security Su
committee, showed that a secret faction in our
government had worked out its awn toreigh
policy, to suit its own ends, and had by infinite
skill, patience and ruthlessriess, put it into ef-
fect, regardiess of the legally established foreign
policy set. by Congress and by our President ...
has, a strong!
following inthe United States. And many of°
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“What keeps this cabal in power, under Dettl- : +
deratic. and under Republican administrations? -
Why has it been impossible for three Presidents ,
and many Congresses to demolish it? That is a
sts, than to cantinue as we arex—— : ;
, Se i, —_ Teng story but it can be summarized in three
p’s—pressure groups, propaganda and pelf (inat
is, by spending).
“How to defeat the cabal? Senator Jeungr
says we should get behiid the pro-Americayt
groups—and you can always Spot them throug
SO Tre | the enemies they have madg.7 .”” ms
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