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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7

54 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 54 pages OCR'd
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Br Shs Planted Flight to Soviet, Friend Declares i Panis, June 8 OF News)--A third man in the siysiery of Brit tein’s fea missing diplomats con- firmed donight..thal they “had| “platined fo escape into Russia and ‘that: he wag to have fled wi thent, but gop seid fost ab. the Isat q minute. BO Jatt right, Do not. MOTT Love to i He, t00, a “gnemnbeg. of” the. ale + & De at. AS RTA ct British disiomatls corps. Tonight cs ee a Sir? {ke arrived from Yanden” do foin crack counter-esplgnage’” agence |’ lthruout western Eurgpe in search tor his Russian speaking par, Telegram Implied Theent * . Wee Tx London, however, the ‘British! foreign office sidully maintained that the diphima ts, | ts, Donald D Mac Lean, . 36. and: Francis money! ; ‘géad, 40, went off to gay spots in’ Rurope on an itipebhous es! capadés in keeging with what Lone don described aa their “emotlonal instability.” But disclusure of telegrams oth} laent their families from Pacis {nl ash oue of them implied he was forced to leave under: threats put a néy complexion an the batt ‘ing cede. thier, at the sania tiie, received this Telexeana ( Coples Studled ae San es ss. red * Hist i mather, Mrs. J. 3. Besseti, that) » [he waa. off for wm gay time. “Ter ‘ ees Te ef io aR atin ae PE wen’: ‘ee sone "fourth ¢ mar” ae to be af 8 Aifterent nation: “4 “Maclean's” American wife, the former Melinda Merling of New: York who expecta her third chfld viext week, received. this message semercny: ¢ ; “Had * tenve unexpecteddy, Sorry, darling I love you. F e you. Please He nat atop loving me. Donald.” tady Mecieas, Donald's raolhe unsigned, meseage: ‘ey a guile Burgess, * nowaver,” : Dab -aorre for my allence”™ the message sald, “Am embarking x along Mediterranean’ holidey, Do fergvie. Guy.” The original, sending saptes ‘ot thie telegrams. were found in a Paris post office today. Thay: were) in the handwriting of a een individual and handwriting ex« perts of the Surete were snalyeing fihem tanigng. .- The telegrams could have been written! days ago, then filed when it became apparent the bunt for the missing men waren. “" Whether the “third man? wea teonnected with the “fourth man” Just how much the “thind man” wa, a matter of speculation, All’ nas told officials of the plans of/ police sett aay was that the! ‘the other two is het: being vulged. “Dhere were * snereasing ahi"thied man” had backed out of the escape plang ab. the jest mo; fears that the wealthy, acholarly.iment when he realized the enot-; ‘debonair MagLean and the xn wey, droapy-shouldered Burgess may have taken Angic-American peurlop secrets. behing the iron curtain, . Log Pied Man Under wrape ' Both know about WW there te to imow about AngicAmerican diple- the American department in ‘foreien office, Burgess from ../seareh oon. fhe Continent, mity of the step, giving up his a reer and forsaking hfe famib. Some 16,000 secret. police and special agents had joined in: the i Bn French offisiais acid they were jeertain Maclean and Burgess no longer were in Paris. + Ther had conceniraied ‘their magy--MadcLean from heading a jaar’ in the ‘past ound Montmartre and places men Haye & gay tans, tz. Ladd s. Mr, Clegg ie ir. Glavis : , ‘gonfidential position hy held until! in MT ; frecentiy in the Beta ‘enxbasay Mi eee, ce « me, Washington. ee British officials in “London a eee isisted hat neither mlasing iste an _ * boo itpat had worked on codes or hadi: . . jabeess bo them, and said that slate. papers or. codg, Books: me missing. : b Nevarthsless, officials axl ‘that! ¥ their having collec ornite| ret tion. aver a long peried the situa-| oT REC ORDED — tion could be serious. American’ 449 Gui x wal authorities were. kept informe ot; pe the developments. 1 a The “t man,” aver, was! . udder ‘wraps. Ik wag he who're: a D AIA Ape . portediy Vipped off London ea — ae ETS y ae hung = Times Werald . ’ were Rot ON as cor vie ~ ane they vanished cae: BY LETTER ER iiss me xf pave i3 today, but on p serious tnlsslene. Bi FOIA Re QUE a5 RL a one $ Ysa Te, Ree. a a - kas n ae . 7 : Saas ee i Suances ‘s ” wey S, ox fear aM tet EIN Bt nee ae oe
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