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6 eB enspalaltie ay (6,000 WERE | INVOLVED |. L, some half a dozen othe cases it had been considered prudent to move officers to other work of less importance to the national security, or to accept their resignations When the leakage was dis- covered the security service had 10 carry out a search in a fie'd of some 6.000 people. “There were 6,000 persons who might have been the * man.” There could be no doubt of the loyalty of the security Ser- vice, “Much of their success sand there are indeed suc- cesses—must be kept aviet. Any failure hits the headlines. In this service there is no fame, but patriotism is the squr or reward.” Mr, Macmillan appealed to embers. not to “spread —broad-sa- false or outdated “picfure of the security servicey as ft exists today.” . eferring to a suggestion inf a newspaper that some means should have bee found of preventing Mrs. Maclean from leaving Eng- . land, he said: “Hitler would have found one; Mussount would have found one} Stalin would have got one. The new arrangements “make a recurrence of this affair extremeiy improbable. Mr, Mac! , frequentl: swung right young tO adie as ogo | back-benchers. : Ti _ y@marks about Mr. Philb: were heard quietly. ‘Th Hbuse was restrained through a8 6 ae. ener cn Macmillan, frequently tidns, when they ca segming half-hearted. hen Mr. Morrison rose . Speak, the benches, which h already shown gaps in the ranks, thinned out further, . When he said, almost at once, that he was less satisfied with... the position than Mr. Mac- miilan appeared to be. it won : no cheers from the Labour back benches “We all feel that this inci- dent of Burgess and Maclean - is a disgrace to our country,” he said. “Things have occurred in this way before. The noblest band of men in history had their Judas. He suffered, and ' I think these men will suffer in some way or another in due . course.” EAK TO THE SOVIET r. Morrison said that §o far as he could recali he na Sige ae ie hs i me, Maclean once, at a soci gathering. He was [nformed in the middie of April, 1951, in gen- eral terms, that there had been a leakage. The Security Service re- ceived full support from the Foreign Office. “Tl hope nobody will suggest that any- body ia the higher levels of the Foreign Office responsible: for these matters would have sought to protect anv of their colleagues on a charge of espionage. Dealing with the record of the two men, he said: “ Maclean was guilty of really — disgraceful conduct in Cairo 18 3990. He apparently gat drunk, got out of hand. went ‘to a party in a flat and pro ceeded to smash the place up. “I do not think that over- sain and drunkenness ate acequate excuse for conduct pt that sort by an importabt offer of the Foreign Offige . serving abroad.” tds the speech, ‘the Neate €. ‘or More about the Cairo Inci- ent came from Mr. Alfr: obens (Lab., Blyth), w id Maclean and a friend, beth jn a drunken state, wer - irko the flat of a girl who was librarian at the United States — Embassy in Calro. . She was absent. They forced their way in and then began to drink all that was available. They pushed a lot and knocked into the bath a heavy piece of marble which broke the bath. of the girl’s clothing down ; -the lavatory, eae A SHOCKING STORY - hey returned to another fidt in the same buiidihe. -Mbclean had homosexual tgn- dencies when in drink, Tl ¥ collapsed on a bed and sa asleep, In the evening Maclean's wife found him, and with help half dragged her coropletely sodden husband downstairs and took him home, . “Js the Right Hon, gentle- man telling me that everybody in the Embassy did not know about that ? Is the suggestion that the White Paper reveals one half of that shocking story 7, “It was not the only incident there. He came back to this country, was given six months’ leave of absewee, and then given this job at the Foreign Office.” por. Robens commertted : « Disgraceful behaviour of the kind Maclean Toliowed, | not ly in Cairo or Washinton la — | Faery ~