SHARING OF U.S. ATOMIC DATA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 119, 4 March 1950, Page 5

SHARING OF U.S. ATOMIC DATA

REPORTED SECURITY PROBLEMS (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 3. “America will refuse to share its atomic secrets with Britain unless the British’Government agrees to reorganise its security set-up on the more ruthless and so far. more successful lines followed in the United States,” says the “Daily Express.” “This follows the 14-year sentence passed on the British scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, for giving atomic bomb secrets to Russia.” The “Daily Mail” says that scores of agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Britain have been instructed to check up on all information provided by M.I. 5 and other British security agencies. This step has been taken in an attempt to find how Fuchs obtained his credentials to have access to all American atomic, secrets. “Up to now, the F. 8.1. has regarded Scotland Yard as the best organised secret service in the world,” says the “Daily Mail.” “The Fuchs case, however, has caused the F. 8.1. to double its own vigilance and make its own check in all cases.”