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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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out the two traitors who fooled Cabingt inisters, duped the Foreign Office, and made a monkey of British security when ‘they scarpered to Russia in 1991. The nation will be outraged if Mr. _ Macmillan fails to give alt the facts tn Parliament today. Won't tet anybody imagine that the Burgess-Maclean scandal is stale and ‘unimportant now. _ Working in Moscow today are two Byitish renegades who ran rings round Secret Service and struck a shrewd nde at our relations with America. ry fo geta worth while atom secret out of ab Amenican » He wilt feat sinartly “with questions. like ‘these: '* What abott ‘Kichs # What about Nunn May! Whét ‘about Pontecorvos WHAT ABOUT |BURGESS AND MACLEAN?" True—Buryess and Maclean did sot (hawk atomic: ‘know-how to the Russians, ,a8 far as is known But when British ‘traitors: skip off to Moscow America’s lreaction is to keep her atomic bag of tricks more thanevertoherself, - _.. set have never told the full trugh a Mr. Macmillan can undo a lot of "harm today by coming clean about the _whole disreputable business.” The whole truth won't ditch Burgess id Maclean now But it may show thht the Foreign Office has hegun to profit fro it past blunders , : ‘ to Know: The public want to knows < e! WHO kept Burgess and Maclean in high Government posts long after it was plain that they were security risks f - ARE the security sleuths who allowed the traitors to esc ape still holding down their jobs t “WHAT thie Ahead put “olf” searching Maclean’a hansé for a month “ when Mra, Maclean was expec ted to be away from home"? | - WHAT venwus decided to postpone the grilling of Maclean berause ‘that would alert’ himt «| WAS there a Third Man y An M. hhs mentioned the name of a man, Is ul is just allegation ? <3": “/ The Man Who Knows ' Today tbere is a man who- knows all about the First, Second and Third..Meo in the Foreign Office Scandal. Se Gs He is Mr Macmillan, the Foreign “Secretary: W hep be says his piece in the ¢ Com this afternoon he need not worry about putting the best face on it to save the pride ‘of injured officialdom. Officialdom has already taken a beating in the Burgess-Maclean serial. Let Mr. Macmillan worry about the public who.are tired of being treated like numskulls. — The time for grudging admissions from reluctant spokesmen is Over. Let’s have a bellyful of facts from Mr. Macmillan to answer all the questions the vecent White Paper left unanswered. OTHING LESS THAN ae ILL SATISFY PARLIAMENT QR THE NATION, ones pho . aint ete YS a ays SE ate cmnraten F vy Ll T oF
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