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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11

85 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 84 pages OCR'd
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MLS MAY FACE AN INQUIRY ' ‘Phone call to Burgess’ revealed | NEWS CHRONICLE REPORTER HE Cabinet is beHeved to have spent almost. all it g-hour 20-minute meeting yesterday discussin the storm raised by the Foreign Office handling of th Burgess-Maclean affair. f Eas So much «3 be done afterwards that. Sir Anthony Eden calted a sédond <abinet for this morning. Two inquiries are now being demanded-into. the efficiency “f MUIS and into the | musinese remaj his proposal wil] almagst pusiness remained oe tainly be resisted by the Gor. orpment. Stanley Bishop writes: A faci now established $y M.1.5 is that the final warning to Macleay and Burgess to flee the country was by a telephone; message to Burgess at his Mat in the early afternoon of May 25, 1952. Warning ‘etter YVheve bad been previously a jelter, Signed only wilh Tt Christian name, which told ihe 4. iwo men they were under serious | i “ontof the Foreign Office. Aiker yesterday's Cabinet the Prings Minister talked privatedy withg Major Gwilym | Blo; George, the Home Secretary, ade f the Mintsters résponsible fgr Secret inquiry ti an inquiry into security is -wrdered by the Cabinet Wis ‘Nkely tao také plate in great “tecy, with only Ministers vectiy. responsible gelling the 'ruli findings. ' The Foreign Office inquiry ud being urged would cover,all adnginistrative ' arrangerments.|) ¢ | Mir. Herbert Morrison, Labour’s||Fdsier, formerly head of “@, ‘Fordign Secretary for sefen|tthp Foreign Office branch depl- tmonjis in 1951, would Gke to geet(ing with security, and a forneer ia Cqammittee of Privy Counuil-]) & AF. group -eapialn, . Hors go into if, oe ; suspicion, and that trouble for’ them lay around the corer. ‘The man in charge of Foreign . Ofiice security when Burgess and | Maclean escaped Now goes | bebind the von Curtain—he bas. | been appuinted counsellor and [ head of the chancery at the Baitish Embassy in. Warsaw, He is Mr. George Cargy- é RE: DONALD DUART MacLraAN, et al ESPIONAGE ~ R (Bufile 100-371183) SEPTEIBER 22, 1955 ‘y, LONDON, ENGLAND oo OT UP AMERIQMROED Assy p Swit, phat if LONDON, ENGLAND.
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