Report on Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess shows cover-up by Foreign Office after continuing communist sympathies of two defectors went unnoticedSenior Whitehall officials privately admitted to extraordinary security lapses over two of Britain’s most notorious spies for the Soviet Union,and then conspired to play down the hugely embarrassing scandal of their flight to Moscow, according to top secret documents seen by the Guardian.A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, or says they could contain been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
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Source: theguardian.com