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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 6

27 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 27 pages OCR'd
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y from Renne Midetensie ager Teen _— bag s—Where 2 | 4 | “Capri,:Hints: Rome:3 Be ee rare eee" By Daily™ Mail Reporters ee _ Ay & the guide books make it clear that Rennes + capital of Brittany, ts distinguished chiefly hy reaskn’; - an ee of anne railway junction offering. excellent facilities f r:| x. ; . mo Setting A Lo topes we ‘| Place Burgess and Maclean are positively So visited on thelr ‘journey. to—where re .. Le | “There are a few good hotels ' in Rennes, a few 800d restaur- | mG ; ants, where the two men could | : : iH have ‘indulged their taste for : delicate cooking. And pg lot of ' he guide books say that a room , inghe Lycée at Rennes was used ' 7 4, eer ! rn } fom the second tria] of Dreyfus in mo ee ; 2 ae rn pl: ‘There one might think, the: . a Se ; "Telegrams supposed 'to have been* e. . . hiftorical interest;.of, the ‘city - . "sent by Maclean to’ his wife’ and , begins and ends, De, . | mother show same mistake in, the/i a -|_ Most of the medieva) Houses. . | spelling of the name—MAC., oak . wee destroyed by fire in 1770, | LEAN. That to Mrs. Maclean had “f her Christian name after surname,” Continental style, +s -§ “fie buildings “in req Sranite, on an‘|." . s x anpy _{ Uhattractive and formal pian.” - Hee “at Gr avely ill In short there seems little about '|} The Rome; newspaper Te tDO the character and style of Rennes | pid yesterday that it carried put likely to attract a man of Maclean's | @ Private investigation and fo d restheti af Burgess motored from Paris etic temperament or te of | oo fiorenes where he met & non- 4 as? : their place was taken by ; Burgess’s annetite for the e and. racy, . . | British diplomatic colleague with | em es att . {Whom he drove on- me, ; Lo . Me : ‘ ] ?- In Rome Burgess ig said to have| theory “that Burgess " was’ t@id Still there , . {| Stayed in the home of an Italian | t at he was about to be demoied Yet for all anvS5ody knows th ¥ || business man whom Tempo is un-{ {fom the Foreign Office, and - {re still there. The telegrams sent able to identify.. 4 few hours later| cided “to BO into a ind, of. yolun: oftheir families from Paris and ot wae contained mistakes of Spell. ing and Construction that one Id expect of messages by tele Popne, or transmitted by a third party, perhaps even ill-acquainted lish. he proceeded ta Southern Italy. j! tary extle abroad.” ‘ Tempo states that Italian police ‘Tempo's editor told the Daily have reason to believe that ‘Maiti. Rome Correspondent that Burgess parted company with |'the ‘story came’ from -, usually Maclean ‘for “entirely » Private "| reliaple sources, : foM oe reasons and are satisfed that the |i‘ heck on it have a with En “inexplicable * « disa arance of All attempts to ¢ o ’ re Therefore ‘there is no proof that Urkess has altowethet different | Deen unsuccessful so far. Ti thet Burgace ana either of the men in fact went tof] ri from political or ideo- | that SL ees and/or Maclean were Paris or Rome, Rennes remains logical ones” Pony ne ~~ -. || seen in nd Selly mee coy ey jon Known ‘point they reached || ORC ‘report adds ‘that. British OD tO chee eo CHY, ‘pave: not si oa Fen May 326, authorities and Italian agencies || UR , oo wo i rd that om there the hunt spread erating with them are gin-|| Authorities have no reco south to ‘the Riviera and Italy, rmed Wot the grave nervous ,| #hyone travelling under the namea ; Whick Bur is }Of the missing men art (oq OF: Fe: Bpstered in Rome. roth : r Yesterday plain-clothes Italian lice “fro the “special sedret tion — not ‘Italian Military Iptelligence. who handled 2 fF ntecorva case -— concentr their hunt on the Maples area. “They combed Capri and Ischis . a ae a Sas Ed east. to Switzerland, and to all the |/idness 4 trontiers of Western Europe," ~ [1 sdtrerin which lately is so ag ras Two Scotland. Yard-men have!! vs ted that he is no fonger in Hull, fone io enna. and on to Klagen. ! pissession: of his mental faculties." urt, In the British zone o ustria, te:: Finaby'. 5 . noes -the ne with photos of the two men. iE Sy. Tempo - advances -the th ! The: ‘telegram. to~" Burgegs's mother was sent from Rome on. ‘ ‘ Thursday moming through a . branch office. The Original carries ‘ r the name of one of the battect = eae ata . eg0wn: hotels in Rome. A photo! . ne ook . a . gif phed copy has gone to London. | *.. .: - an . + ~ . Rome police spokesman was | ; .. ~ a . : | $f requctant to elaborate on the Sre- cs . + @| vious statement, from which it Pag vie : ; : a understood the wire was filed|by| - le em . an Italian-speaking man, | ob Pecan ye tm met oe Pwd
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