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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11
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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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