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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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ae * Accurate’?
ord Reading .sald thet the
orifinal question was directed
soOFiv to Maclean's suitability te
he appointed head -of the Foreign
Office's -Amerlean Department in
October: 1950—when he was in
fset not under suspicion as & spy.
The reply was therefore “ com~
Pletely accurate,” .
fe had been
“IT was explainin
stances in which
given @ further trial in a
appointment," Lo
the ctreum-|- Mayfair flat about, her
freshishe sald:
‘mother, and I am as fond of
-.
ia
! SAYS HIS
Express Staff Reporter
HE mother of Guy"
T Colonel Jack Basse
Son,
tapped & cigarette
AS she Etp-
“Tam still Ais
sited tePpre, Of that decision nim now as I ever wos 1 have
I cited the fact that he had per. 5
formed his officiai duties——clearly to telemeed and I would like
meaning his new official duties as
head of the American Department
7 S#tistactorily up to the date of
his disappearance. And: so he did."
to teli him so. T
allegations are all
“They are
Sacked from
‘
les,
Dartmouth Naval
think these)fed that
saying he wasid
No THIER,
‘MOTHER.
SUIBESS, HOw wife of Lieut
il, talked “last ni
ed night in he
| DELIGHTED” -**
{ sne put out thin, velned hands.
n_ them was a letter from the
foiain of the college. . It said i—
“Dear Mrs. Burgess, Fam satis.
Guy's evesight. must be
Great disappointment, if he
oes not take to the idea of engi-!
neering or paymaster, J ¢an only;
4
id that College because he was & thief, Iththing yOu Would be Wise to send}
wontee suspett stor Reading of Just isn’t true,” epy, {DIM back to Eton. ee
[deliberately misleading the House | Guy's Steptather put in: “They!” 4 Actually, tt ts better for him
but} he fel “a bis purged" by canted alfed him a spy: , They have *, t be boarded out now than Bay
thid reply. .. pealte moa braltor, < a ie jn three or four years’ time, when].
. en ata F & Ww more definitely com-
Satisfied’. | °° * ONLY HE— mitted to the Navy". ©
- oe . “ “Now they call nim a thier. [Guy Burgess went wip Dart-
pound pete, he whether nets None of it is true.” He Waved/mouth jrom Eton in January
part be other officials who wre| is | hands in | anger" His 1525. He wos then 13). He stayed
Derforming their official duties inf Mother and I don’t know, Youjaz Dartmouth eight” terms. and
& similarly satisfactory manner.”| ¢eftainly don't know. .
Lord. Reading: “T knew at the
time I made the answer—of
Course T did, for theré is no ques-
tion of the department holding
anyiting back from me—that Mr.
Maclean had been under. observa:
tion. It was nob relevant to the
question asked.
“I was satisfied that tt was not
the public interest to disclose
in
T feel about him
to get letters to him
Prime “Minister
Thelle/t in Jul 1927 to
himself doesn't Ek : ¥ nae al
1 o back to
on}
know, » Nobody OWS “except © F :
In the ‘expensive Bassett flat!"T am most awfully sorry te ar|
there was silence, ' of the way your eareer in ithe
Mrs. Bassett sighad, then said: V¥ has: been made. imposgible
“I would like Guy to know how
+ Jt is impogsibie
.
; , d f
IN Leaman GTON “ British Guy has written.” -; ;
pokesman said that Sir Roger (Burgess wrote to his mother at
aking “eonsiders that any Christmas 1954. and aoain at
larification or ampilfcation Of Christma
rd Reading's statement must
sought from the Porelgn
fice," ; 5
or tenet .
o
esent,” said his mother.)
Taut with grief she stoke atout|
& Dartmouth incident. “I khow
Wasivt thies,” he. sald ; |
& last year, “2 contd 10
ve had a” nicer eyes
+
but every; Y#u back again.” 7
has been
r YOur eyesight,
“i shall be delighted’ to fave
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