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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 5
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a + On-& monumental Mediterranean bender. Or: aot
» Possibly, as individuals privy to highly !mportant | gp a
Soe “ Anglo-American secrets, they may have become | . _ 7 yoo
. f traitors’ and. sipped behind the Iron Curtain. to
. tel everything they know to the Kremlin. “ DELETED COPY SEN c. B. wore
; Mr, Morrison apparently is as much in the; . ag Bowuth|
dark about the case as the rest of us. All anybody by LETTER Jun 2 22 <aT8
' an be sure of is that the two diplomats—Guy
CHiizes reeontiy ies is in a key post at the British. PER FOIA REQUEST,
” ‘ : : Embassy here, acLeap, head of the; 3 ~ } 4 cotiae lead
. ‘ ‘: American desk in the Foreign Office at London - =
- are reported to have heen mixed up in a number!
of past escapa insta
ogy
© Yoda Gargantuan taste for hard Mguor, It is. ‘
‘ 4 matter of record, for example, that on last’ ;
; February 28 Burgess was stopped three times jn. i
' Virginia for speeding at: 80 to 90 miles an hour i V24 a7 / LF -4 - :
“an incident that led hls superiors to send. h TT ee CORDED ;
back home after Governor Battle had protestal. i ;
* to our State Department. As for MacLean Ms; 13 SEP 11 1951 Page
Pe oo “Morrison has confirmed to —_
at me “mons, amid sardonic laughter, That the Gentle ' —
: on -™Man_suffered a “nervous breakdown”. in Csiro. Times-Herald —__.
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affairs a position scarcely designed for a person!
: with delicate nerves ora tendency. to crack vp
« under pressure, EPS
be There is no evidence, according to Mr. Mor!
' rison, that Burgess and MacLean absconded with’
secreé documents when they disappeared over:
- two weeks ago. However," they had plenty: of: «
_ A confidential information in: their. heads at that}
a - iitime, and if they have deserted iy the Kremlin, j
then their act, can have’ decidedly serious conse
quences.\In? any .event,"no ‘matter. how,
yatery'. may’. turn! out; ‘the Attlee’ government :
of explaining’ to do. 38. to bow 1
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