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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 12

86 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 86 pages OCR'd
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am, 7 Macmilian dodges the questions| | on Maclean and Burgess — HE Foreign Secretary, Mr..Harold Macmillan, dodged all questions ~-~about the Maclean and Burgess affair when he left London Airpprt for Rle ; : ‘wae woes Be New York last night. . Had he seen the newspaper reactions to the White-paper on the ‘nissing diplomats ? “I have read only one ian said Mr. Macmillan. Did he expect the Americans to be i. Spy ‘list offered. (--- interested in the Foreign Office explanation ; cumdau E apres Foreign Editor writes i iho “TY shouldn't think so.” a are ire ate paper suggests that it was ony. Rus. a Mr. Macmillan, who was in a black. jacket, striped | nat a security report teveaied leakage wausers, and wearing ar. Old Etemian tte, agreed toa. } the Foreign Office. © — ; official speak in a television broadcast ... providing he was not . from t can reveal that, in 1943, @ Soviet guestioned. . - ae a ot 4 widespread 4c. | warned the British Foreign Office Of @ SiNhNs For three and a half minutes he talked about his - net of Soviet agents in Whitenail. British citizenship tgip ta the United Nations, When he had finished he And he offered in return for don bringing with Hulled his tie straight, and strode to the aircraft. . ni £10,000 in gold to come to Tone im oe en him a list of all Soviet spies in Bri'a) Maciean and DMP, ¢? GHGeY Grows. Since it has Deen 2e re eis clear that the Burgess were long-term agents, ir names. There will be no dodging the questions when Mr, 78 fered would have contained their to accept Macmillan returns. He will face the hottest reception: lst ont ia] courier was sent to 4 rendezvous t St his career in the Commons. : A speci ras thre ame of. Such Was | ; ‘ . ‘ rms, But the deal never Cc 1 jost his nerve. The anger of M.P.s is mounting in all parties, erin Whitehall that the Soviet official los hy the Russian Security They are determined to probe every aspect of the | His nervousness ‘as noted by Mie Ske: O8 affair as soon as Parliament reassembles, - Serviee and he was whisked away The newspaper Le Questions Mr, Macmillan will be asked are:— — MARGINAL Nore "he Wwhite- paper : “No other IF you know the name of the “third man” who- Monde comme ‘ye such an impression that © "ipped off Maclean that he was being watched, why | doqument could BVe von of counter-espionage, am don’t you nate him ? Lg m. aes ; { of me I ; —_ ~ thdt in the country of Sherlock Holmes the services IF he has been. punished ar sacked, why not-tell us 2. IF you don’t know who the ti 1 ary.” sedurity ignore the simplest rules of a police inguery p-off man was, wha _ _. ee mo ard you going to do about finding out ? : WHO were the officials responsible for appointing - NM a ed A. + ~ ‘ Burgess and Maclean to their last posts 7 vt inf aré infants in the
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