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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 5

54 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 31, 1950 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 53 pages OCR'd
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* land his dgparture from the sarvice ie ‘SRS consaevay-maminent # e ° om . These were: the men who tani |: x he the boat for St. Malo. They: had! aa ; kiown. each over casually for ‘ Years, snd in London, last: month,| they renewed. the acquaintance} ahip. There were some who had), (been wondering, this spring! ~ {Whether McLean's recovery trom: | his mantel Uiness was as complete]: j88 it’ was supposed “toa bes" Hele jaeemed low in spirit, On April 2 ; we Phe made a seche in-e Soho night og club when he” beeame involved - _ ih at argument with a newspe- permen. The management ssked e p (Dim toleave.” ~ . . Ha , ~ Many Happy Returns 0° . But there was no hint, certainly, ke ef what was to come.” He hadi : " a bought a beautiful, old 12-room).' aon vince. wt MELIND phigh LEAN, house at Hatsfield, near London, -. GUY BURGESS.S “She Hadiihe Baby. ite and nis wile were Vving theres , Hedad the Motive feo 7s aan is Wicehtnutem. al _lauletiy; (she was expecting ‘herl. ” enn ntict lad Oe iE wee ele en mtety (Decl third child. "The two little Royal that Das heen Accomplished here, he could do. By the time he lefe,| {82 the Measles, May 25 was his) iderable diMenity in getting from cording to = close friend, nig pittiday. He left the house as pe a to Foint B in the norma! mat re mind verged onthe: sui | BEAL bak never showed Up ate corse of things” McLean, it 1s cidal. He was drinking tar © too tae OMe re true, iad the imagination “end much, his habits arid personal ap-| Assuming that Burgess and Me- daring te e@ect the escape, His pearance “ became progressively, Lean have gone, or are trying tolrriends, however, find it impos ¥ slovenly. He would frequentiyj@0. behind the fron curtain, thosel nie to believe thal he haa bean into the oSices af other Em-/who know the twa men remalaiine feeder in such B& plat: 7 hagy officials to pour ont his)baflied by the personality contra-/” phere ‘is general agreement wogs—his hatred. of America, hisj@lictions involved in ‘the’ cave.jir xecLean and Burgess really h feging of frustration in his career.| Burgess. for instance, is considered) pone over to the Communists, thiir Co Thiniddle Hfe, he had reached the Much the more Ukely of the UWS im is somehow to. try to prodube} _ rank of acting second secretary(0 have been somehow involved Dipeace, rather than to hele Russial and already was over his head,/40 attempt to ald Russia, He waslo const the West. As 3 British ~ He was a close student of the{@seusted with his Iie—he had nolgictomat ere sums jt une LAL . be , & ClOge § “oe familly tiesto -Oind him~amnd RE worst, thie thins is certainly more writings of Lenin and Stalin, wad! might have had some sympat! Hess than Hiss" "eee his knowledge of the Communistifor what He thought: wag “the! y a6: week in # London hasbitel, dislectic reportediy had con-/Rfemilin’s ‘cause. His politics wereins MeLean geve birth to: an wibuted to some of the West'sileftish McLean, on the other hand oientpound daughter, She “tea more. effective ‘diplomatic © ey.j/Rever pave the slightest indicationiaqy pe called Melinda. The hope! changes wih the Kremlin. Yer jo! pra-Communist tendencies..- larose that—if Donald McLean still’ . by the time he got back from] But Burgess, f & fell, Was Rilg youming the free werkt some! oe Washington, the Fortign Office/type a? man whelly incapable’ ot mhere—the news would bring ina Be apparently bed hed enough af organizing apd, carrying thraughiio his sefises, and pack to Eng? < Serato. He wis pul on deave,’a disappearing ect of the sorbland. oo: uo Ss e . . * Washington Star.
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