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wo . - ye” he. . - ee | 2 gr ar Ae, A, . foe poy a Former icign Office % NOVEMBER 1955 Officials—Disappearance 15), é - ra re had been scen not to have been covering the Pilme Minicee t at the faintest s : i fo up matters, then the McCarthy hysteria picion that securi ulati ns are ca. an a t pid might have been prevented beforehand. forced ruthlessly on the small f try ‘ia ry ‘ a : ercfore, it seems to me absolute! i i : bal essential in this Burgess and Macleay factories bat with infinitely rae i : a Nn restraint and conscientiousness the highe: ; ; ; co. case that any suspicion of covering up, up a man is—that suspicion is wee betes | fais. any suspicion, not of these two, but of desiructive of democracy in this count" eee eee es LE ; er people, being “ covered who were ¥ must say that I wish it 1 Lo: responsible for the fact that they could d iv eet teem whee hac feccecect ss ip pts Ha: what they did must be removed. Frankly, sevarded we Burgers ene Maen he = Bors neither the White Paper nor the Foreign constituent w x fetely i nocen re meres se et ree Secretary's speech has wholly removed was thrown ‘Oat co” nm tba: ts on those suspicions from my mind. - . There was not the ‘care taken Ove big. : a I was very glad that the Foreign Secre- that was taken over these ‘two men is. , to: tary said that we have to remember that highly key positions. The thoroughnes — bo jege es security does not apply only to a couple nd care taken in their cases contrasts : : Foi: of thousand high officials in Whitehal) With the rough treatment accorded ¢ . = Fea. who - are dealing with secret documents, aircraft factory worker who talked ne Bar i oe It applies to the tens of thousands of night out of school”. |... o* i } bio. industrial workers, especially those in air- eneetnan _ one pos craft factories. They are subject to . -herefore, I say that our major pre- bear. - t ’ ' security, too, a have socuvity oe to sce, if we are to eee we ees When 3 was listening to my right bon ave security, regulations, as we must-~ roost Friend's description of his perturbation rat ¢hey are imposed with the most rath 5 of mind when considering the case of he equality. of That is wrong. They Bn Seer ewe ew 8 . Maclean, to his description of what was the bi pe imposed with greater severity i. ~ f=. + + the ‘real agony of making up his mind fave cteiat Si goes! | Surely those who a j "3 whether the man should be kept on, and th ve official State secrets in their hands, ao a when I considered all the trouble that ‘0% who have access to secret doco. y * r: was taken for Maclean, I could not help Pe Of tee pie ee EE PTeS gre . on ; recollecting an incident brovght to my tation of security thaa workers in. aircrafs Bot _ atiention last August of a constituent of series. AY some of them say, “We are . a ay mine, an aircraft factory worker in such sensitive souls, and our talents, = eof Coventry. He was sent for by the per- tho ugh very great, are not the sort of t aa r yeu sonnel manager and was told that he was tarenis which sao thrive in a world of red .of H to ! @ security risk because he wag a member they security.” then they must be told : Poe of the Jocal branch of the Communist tol han 80 elsewhere. They must be. gene | rr i Party. He was dismissed from the factory “ at ibeir genius must be dispeased & f : overnight. There was no court of appeal with. cae os i ee eeR i eS a or him. There were not “three wi “securi essential, 9 4 ce ees HBR oa men™ to consider his case. There was no oucht by ie seated 7 i sm ee on hk et beet sort of protection for him. He was gible, and it r t be at ced most of all: eee Bt Be te chucked out because of an unt r ike the Forien Offee ore .- ; ee pt allegation. rue in areas like tbe Foreign Office or the - 4 to to I do not want (o argue the case, because Jet us consider “he ‘White eee uae ES CN pe I am dealing with it elsewhere, and 1 Burgess and Maclean. -7 start with the i. a nF acknowledge that the Minister of Supply ast paragraph of it, which tefls us why Ee fia Be poe. bas een Nery helpful, but it made me we could not be told, =a sre r+ -- ee ee . and I'made some inquiries, We + ionage 75-1 depend : SES ate r ae ee have to face the fact that security covers woceess upon ibe, Meaxicnuia eecrecy get Ps me de all our aircraft factories and that literally methods", , 2 .teqare. oo? Tete ve woe aan scores of people are now being moved jy gays. 0s. ees tes oF BACT gle hobs from one position to another, very often coo ee RA Bin Geet ; - ¢ eee without their Knowing why and having ‘I had better declare my interest in this ee Eee Soar ar ONY Ce their careers blighted by security charges. subject. During the war I was both a- St Bie da | 1 wonder whether the procedure in other temporary member of the Foreiga Office, nn Aa cases is based on as idle gossip as the and so directly responsible to the preseat iM a : oot accusation against my constituent, from Prime Minister. Peoas also a member : Be i which Tam icving to liberate him. . sof a «secret department and at one time ‘ab ween ~*F - eee ~ . - an an v toc one ee es Smeg 9 a oll