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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 10
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* “aNEARALTEeNd
Geoffrey
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The first Dis
“This attracted the atten
@ car-park attendant—
ealled out after them as 1
ran towards the boat. Bur;
shouted in reply, “ Back
Monday”
_ This incident alone, inv
ing’ as it did, the discover,
! the car still standing forlo
| in the docks on Monday
after the Falaise had. beri
helped to identify them
more effectively than w
have a chance encounter o1
| Paris plane.
h 6s Phe Falaise reached St. °
at 10 am, on the Satu
rierning, but Burgess
Maclean remained on £
drinking beer until the «
|, Passengers had disemba-
and they then Went as
leaving in their cabins the
gage they had brought
them — Maclean's bricf
and two suitcases. of cl.
belonging to Burgess.
They appear deliberate
have missed a train tha:
St. Male at 11.45 for Pari:
their,actions for two men
were trying to get away
HE story of the
flight of Maclean
and Burgess to
France is the only
part of the disappearance
of which there is reliable,
corroborated evidence.
“eThey teft Tatsfield soon
after @ p.m., in the car
Burgess had hlred in his
own name, and drove
through the night to
Southampton. oe
That moroing also Burgess, Fil
again in his own name, had \
booked two berths on. a cross-
Channel steamer, the Falaise,
which left Southampton at
midnight on Friday for a week-
end excursion cruise to St
Maio and the Channel Islands,
returning fo Southampton eariy
on Monday morning.
-, 7 .
ne es
fly
Drinking
a:
G Strnad ts fhe docks THE START OF THE JOURNEY an
‘Southampton with only a . .
Me ed. inte be nore they A car of the type n wh ich Burgess and Maclean out. being seen were fa
ress or time were they
at Burgess left the car stand- drove to Southampton stands by the Chan yond words.
gon the quay side... steamer Falaise which took them to St. Malo - ,
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