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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 1

135 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jun 26, 1946 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 135 pages OCR'd
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Pod spoke telephonically with of DONALD MAC LEAN, former head of the seunaie inh of the Foreign Office of Great Britain in London, England. During » advised on June 9, 1951, that on dune 2s 195 » apres this telephone conversation, au ised him that she . had received « telepran froa her busban a AIDS MAC LEAN since his disappearance. She told that it was a ‘a relief te heer from MAC LEAN bat made no otheraention of where MAC LEAW was, where the message was sent frow or contents of the messages, PEGG stated that he was not certain when it was that amp had received the telegraa from MAC LEAN, but he peiieved that it was only a short time prior to his telephone conversa- tion With her. @@N said the telephone connection was poor and he was cut off three Simes during the conversation, We atated that he believed the conversation was monitored, which might account f apparent . concerning the message from MAC @ . MN advised that VELMA was at a to understand MAC LEAN'S ~ disappearance but stated to that she believed he my have had a recurrence of a nervous breakdown similar to one be hag in Cairo, Egypt, in 19h9,. concurred with MELINDA in ~ this oninion. He ateated. hawnwase. hat he Anas mnt manent ecw Peewee 605 Gyalites, VEC Tos » Wins Be Woes Hoe Teter. other nervous breakdowns suffered by MAC LEAN ar he knows of no details of the breakdown in Cairds According teaQMMMNBW, MELINDA etated that the London newspaper Which first carried the story that MAC LEAN had told a friend = = that he was going to Russia for "ideological reasons" was a "sensational-type" newspaper and that the newspaper had as yet ae Ld failed to produce the "friend* that it had referred to, MELINDA . believed the story to be false and toldmmliiialitmtinst she had no aon ae ap RN ni ae ae reason to belie hat WAC LEAN went to Russia or desired to go to Russia, C GRUB stated that the only other information possessed’ by him eoncerning MAC LEAN'S disappearance has been received by hin from news releases. . MM related that MELDDA first aot MAC LEAN in Paris, France, * 2 ah _ fin 1938 or 1939 and married bie there in 1910. MAC LEAW was at — ere FT = SF aS 2
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