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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15

83 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 83 pages OCR'd
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: ong by a gréup elder states . 10th + ase, Eden’ said: - os a a — LONDON, ‘Nov. 7 B-To dard against.another Bur eas -cLean case, Prime: Minister atheny” Eden Fn ee Parlia- ent today to ye a study Britain's a py - "precau-|’ The Prime Minister made the d in winding up a House of ommong debite. an the 1951 “ection, to the*Communists}, diplomats Gu)."Burgess and}. -mald "MéLean—deéscribed by oreign Séeretary Harold Mac:| Hilan as one of the most pain- | & storles. in fhe nation’ 8 \hls- Ty. . wae Admitting ‘ the government | ad been:“a bit laggard”- “in Guy Hiurese Donald MacLean . “no evidence” thal Philby iipped off others ae v * wat Haroid Phiiby cognizing the danger i in the/T. “We should examine . |. "7 \ dhe tional leaders who serve pri-/tion in demanding some kind of * -curity measures now applied|marily as advisers to Quéena probe. i the public service and also|Elizabeth Il ‘nsider“whether-any further MacLean, head of the For- “Eden's call came only a fewleign Office's American Depart- -ecautiongs can properly bel|hours after Maemillan turned/ment, was under suspicion ‘ken to reduce the risk oftdown an opposition Laborite|when he fied with Burgess hbe- vachery » «1 therefore .. .|demand for a judicial inquiry “Spose that we should con-|and an all-party investigation " “nel a small informal confer-|of the way the Foreign Office EeR peetecoe o Pe 7A RE GE age. ech AC ee Ban aorta ingles aT sides pf the House.” * But members of the Prime vy councilors are a select; Minister's own Conservative je privy councilors from|selected and promoted its men. up of statesmen and na |Party joined with the: opposi- “Ol 1, a B.Moe ho~afol “exception _ for. fenses?. hind the Iron Curtain. Burgess, who had been attached to the British Embassy in “Washing- ton, was home on leave for dis-| ciplining at the time. Viadimir Petrov, a Soviet dip- lomat who deserted to the West, {said recently that both men had been recruited as Communist agents in the 1930s. Nearly two years after their disappearance, MacLean's American-born wife,’ Melinda, vanished from Switzerland with their three chiidren. Their trail was traced to the Iron Curtain, border in Austria. She is be-’ lieved to have joined her hus- band. ' The present whereabouts of Burgess and MacLean have not been definitely established, al- though there have been reports placing them in Moscow or in a satellite country. Although acknowledging that the government had not acted promptly, Eden warned against jeopardizing British liberties in building up defenses against Spies. - “British justice over the cen- turies has been .based on tht principle that 4 man has-to be presumed innocent until he be proved guilty,” the Prime Min-: ister said, “Have we got to aban-! don -that principle? Perhaps’ worst of all, are.we to make ani political - Of) cpabeBden. and "Macmillan! or nti-Spy Precaution ath haere! ca __- ‘fe Tolson =} Boardman Zé.“Nichols —__— - — wn. Belmont Mr, Harbo Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons Mr. Rosen Mr, Tamm Mr. Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd .- Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy AA 2, whe ad | —_— NOT R=CcOrr'S 126 NOV 14 i855 “ a Wash. Post and TZ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date ¢-3 7S 5
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