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“ perce See me LY a NRA I og ) t - © 4 bate, Tote 2 £ rr) ; y 4 } Rn - a yo cB yf 4 is ~ a ‘ ; : i a BRANIGAS MACLEAN AND BURGESS ifsmecteietremea| | 05 Foreign Office spokesman = id! a mt yelterday thal iL must be assu seal | E P PER O lthAt secret documents. bad byer) “ : spassecd’ by. Maclean to the Rass at | . ;Embassy in Landon. They) would have been photo-! graphed immediately and returned! a : - , , jUe next day, oxo tliat: it would be] RU SSTANS MAY HAVE SHEN Liminassibie fo say in what quantity | c they had been passed or what par: ticular information hack been: 1 i it ; lhanded ave f j oo SECRET DOCU ENTS | At. the time of his disappearance Maclean was head of the Rorlh aroaey Sa +n ; American department of the Boreigni - fr oe | ee RY OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT Office. There is fittle aout in off fe ‘ . : . cla arters that hie nad aceess LO The Government is to publish asa White iarge numbers of highly secret: Paper what a Foreign Office spokesman described PETROV'S EVIDENCE yesterday as “a full statement on the Maclean . . C | Credibility Established and Burgess case.” It will probably be published * yn, ome he Foreign Office Was delyged towards the e [" i wilh inauiries — vesterday — {form The d the end ol ous week. d Br frish ang foreign eorrespone nis te Gecisionl Was Laker sLerc Si la t Une Petrov Maclean ane ur Elen, Prime Minister watt yes _ ay by Sir Anthon gchs revelations, The following ques- Me : wor, er consu tation with Mr) lidns were among [hose answered by re acu lan, Foreign Secretary. Ih followed publication ithe offielal spokesman : of articles by Viwdimir. a | | WRY tras if peur decided io punlish ; y, the 33] j + & Like «Paper nome Leet Petrov ees tr ele. | damage mould hase pee gone df , TGCLE : WS | the dirfermation kad been dit post i Canberra, ' elosed a year or Lice years aga? | ern 44, disappeared in May, mission on Espionage in Anstralia. 195i white they were both em- rhe credibility of Petrov cessed fo, slayed at the Foreign Olfice, In-¢ be sub iudice. ‘The Roval Commis: | formation from Mr. Petrov that sion said Unat. Mr. and Mrs. Petrov they were “long-term Soviet were wilnesses OF WUT. agents” was conlitmed by the Hiefore. Petrov's defection im the Farelgn Office on Sunday. ‘spring of 1954. British security im- The Gaver enew in adva vestigations were still proceeding. Rrra pci Janew in advance | When Pelrov_ defected. those inyesti- ‘at 2 i Petrow's articles about Bur- ‘gations ad just apout reached Lie, atgs and Maclean would be appear- jpoigt when i. would have becr pOB-- ing and what fey would contayn) oa sibip ta make some. statement. iepwas anniv. after the arlicies hgd fer Petrovs defection. it was aos a nT J. i a yeas appeared and it was seen what jn- ‘efdgd to wait until his reliability hy | terpst they laad aroused in the Bebish Press that the decision fo! (Continued on BP, £2, Cal. oi publish a White Paper was taken. ann neiieaiee ae RE: DCNALD DUART MacLEAN, et al > ESPIONAGE = R (Bufile 100-37L183) Se ae ‘ . . a “ a Aa (HEY DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MORNING POST re a " SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 b oe LONDON, ENGLAND, “ QCT 12 1945 : eet F Wir rte YE . “A RAE TSE A * Rep be oe om ° APERICAAI Boost ot xf nog ELE eo aw 2 eee