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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 9
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half the question, It would be
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pyalant in Ani@risa, thal @i
ve amunisie kre spies. Indes,
the Russian. apy melwork
¥ the best, intelectually br
prSfessionahy, are good enough.
How, then, did Maclean
radoate. fram. Communist to
lommunist agent? Why did he - .
follow h thie spofession Pah
roug @ years. in ‘
blackest treachery ? Brink problem
Henna aseeneetnnhitmmnnnant +
rising T “is also important
Ace bene onnn histories. or he ponent o + | x :
, Or Maclean” tenant traiters, Fuchs, an otherwise | { cajolery; depression has bedn |
seems to make the ous austert and guiet man, ees | rabiaced' by booming prosper dy.
ate Meee eee oslonaily took refuge jn extra- | agd overfull employment. \
Kreater, As s@ many ethers did, erdinary bouts of drinkin aga t Rioyment.
he might well have outgrown Burgess. drank to excess for university studen’,
Communism, Like one oulgrows Many years And Maclean > Spreading his polucal wings to-
the spolty face of adolescence. | f earliest letiars of Melinday | GRY. 5828 Bround him a system
Steccess imight have hastened marrage describe Rie “drink, | Of Hving and Government that,
une Beets. por. have ne doubt. ing orgie” in Pariy Hig drink. | om Ge Whole, works pretty well
DOMISIAE Gponee ie waewae | BE In’ Washington was heavy Over the past ten years be
promisine Man of Ke Hime dig °2eash controlled. ' aise should fave seen suiiecent
progress in the Poreign Service’: But in ire, and lefer ty evidence of the true character
WAS exceptional, At the vary LOPdon, jt got completely gyi ] . of international Communism to |
wieast an aimbassadorshig $n < Of Bend. In his last tex months avoid the pitfalls stumbled inte 4
" Washingion.or Paris lay ahead - He fhe Foreign Office he usualy by Maclean and bis fellows, = ©
. Weihay never know the exatt Geg.% Ogtlle of whisky in bis The generation of traitors was
and & nip from 3b wea.
BpSrmeselStR” ie MERESAS ofa Uneceraly” to Naat Taf | | 3 lSlose abduct an Shatpy
cret Service, What we do | a ar the morning period of me. In this fact Hes:
wark
: some reason for confidence 1p
This gort af drinking certain ¢
know ia that Mackan sther i
Britain's future security. -
had ng inclination or no oppor-
tunity to abandon that em. O88Peaks the pressures of pork |}
ployment Bhd clidae instead ‘the eee : perhaps those of black. | cance note Hd id Wasehate
abandonient of his country, : ahd perhaps those of that a cambination of fashion: ,
fear: Far fear, t60. ls & wea
of the Communist ‘spymasier a
'., No, Donald Duarh Maclean's
life hus not been a happy one.“
We may believe with f
fidence that the yout
The fact. is that Communist
agents have tthe opportunity
to ohatige their minis: Ones
Feergited they are ruthlessly: |
retained in thelr sew loyalty.
ii is virtually certain that
Maclean was paid for the Infor-
mation he handed over fo the |
Russians, °
_ . Pram the oase histories of
. Fuchs and Nunn May we know
the. Communist spymasters are
punciiilicns on this pointy!
-they know that once the agent,
has received money. Rowever
:
t
gmail, for services rendered, be
is toma tlicaly Suscapible to.
all.
is @ distasteful subject.
At is
t!
o
j able anti-Americanism and the
' , Beemlin's present moodaf aweet.-
; reasonableness sould produce
aiyilar delusions among tocdey's
me ei 4 geheration,
Nrese j “8 ‘o them, the relenfless anypl-
Pree eeetrstion do not ahare | why and icrevocalsle dlecinitne
th telere, wil nee < Ge of liternatlonad. Cammunt
“traedy. SUR OE ee ust be mats crystal clear,
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of Rhe National Goal Best's
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Tevahty to tie Contmunist canke
Hbistermittently, a homosexugl. .
Hpratsexualliy above evergthigg |
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