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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 24

60 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 60 pages OCR'd
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Burgess, th Spy, Writes a Column 4 By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY G: uy BURGESS of the Burgess-Maclean partnership “of Russian spies in Great Britain and the United States wrote a piece for The London Sunday Express, last February, which is of interest at the present mo- ment because of implications in relation to the forth- coming Khrushchev-Bulganin yisit to Great Britain. Burgess clarifies Russian policy, as he under- - stands it, after having said that he and Maclean have i pondents). any illusion on our part that we could do anything © much to hurt this friendship even if we wanted to. Quiy_ Mr, Dulles 6 could do that. " had every opportunity to meet Russlans “of different kinds and at all levels, except the highest official level.” Then he says: ee “Tt has been said that we tried to hurt Anglo-: American friendship in the statement that we made (when they first showed themselves to foreign corres- This assumption is as false as would be lai pitisnittl? APR 16.1956 ortrayed as Enemy This {s very Interesting because obviously John Poste Dulles js now being portrayed as the enemy of reat Britain as part of the Communist Party line in all parts of the world. If he does not go along with British policy with regard to the Near East, it Js to be remembered that Sir Anthony Eden has not gone along ‘with American policy with regard to the Far East, AS a matter of fact, if there is any disturbance of Anglo- American relations, it is because Great Britain recog- nized Red China too scon and having done that de- parted altogether from both American and British concepts of right by insisting what Red China could shoot its way into the United Nations. It has been said, but not officially, that Great Britain recognized Red China after having been premised that the United States would quickly follow. If such a claim, which I heard in London a year ago, is correct, the British were taken in, ee - Burgess says that he wrote a speech for his chief in the Foreign Office which “ran roughly as follows”: “The Chinese People's Government is a govern- Ment of Chinese people by Chinese people and for Chinese people. That is why we have recognized it and that is why it is surprising that the United States has not got around to doling so.” —— In a word, this man, 2 Russian agent, who skipped out of his own country while under investigation and . who now is in Moscow in the employ of the Russian Forelgn Office, wrote 2 speech which actually describes British polfcy and which denounces ("it is surprising”) American policy. He does not say when he wrote that speech but Burgess was employed in the British-Foreign Office during the years 1944 to 1951 and therefore he enild wv hava been mithant knowledge nf tha Knrvaarn Relea not Maru Mak FRSVEA LEY ELE PA the eb Goel -'War which took so many American lives. Could it have been Bevin or Morrison for whom the speceh was written? , 3 LAT ae a chee 77 be | ° t { i N.Y.¢ “QURNAL ANIERIC. .- ir. Tol mn ue Nicholn? Mr, Boardmtn Mr. eelhionie ason____ Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsong___ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm ___ Mr. Nease ween Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr. Holloman__ Blames China Lobby He met in Washington American o greed with him about Red China. He does not say ho they were. He attributes the American fallure to ecognize Red China to the China Lobby, of which Alfred Kohlberg says he is the sole proprietor, although Iam willing to claim a participation, and the Right Wing of the Republican Party, which in the United States Senate is the leadership of that party.. He apparently does not believe that the yoters have any interest In the matter. Burgess denies that the present Russlan govern- ement ic tmnerialist af exynansionist althaneh if has ment is imperialist of expansionist, although if has increased its hegemony over the human race from. 180,000,000 in 19359 to about 800,000,000 today. The only reason for the Truman “Containment Policy” and for NATG is to limit Soviet expansion. The article was copyrighted by the North American | Newspaper Alliance, Inc., and The London Sunday Express. Nevertheless it did not attract too much at- tention, perhaps because few identified its author as the spy, probably figuring that 1t was somebody else _ whose ideas were being given currency. The effort of Soviet Russia to have Red China recognized by the United States and the United Nations knows no abate- ’ ment and apparently the purpose of this article was to influence both British and American public opinion. Perhaps that is the job which Burgess and Maclean hold in Mascow. . It is astonishing that no one among the foreign . kcorrespondents and- diplomats in Moscow recognized and identified Burgess and Maclean during their stay there, — Caprright, 1056, Wing Fe Features Sradicate, Ine, Fok Soh Se CORTE OTe Ty iaky 1 W560 & ; yee Miss Gandy
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