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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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foreign correrpondente ag Miller and Angly, but J tosksa ae
ard serious lock, J had alwass woadered what type ar ag
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. { All were in uniform—A merican ‘correspondenta*h Agree:
, { Cover the aasignoient. wearing the uniform af a Beritigh captain
{ with the proviso that a the event of caplure Wa had pe. Jdee
brassaid as foreign correspondent and je the pockets of ear it
mere American identification surda Than came the enlemen eno:
snes [of the military eceremogy, All came t» attention. “The last
| ¥2s sounded and every American reporter stood at attention
held the galute as he Would have done at t m §
{ bafers the tomb ef the Unkoown Soldier, © re ee
* Philey was on my eft and From. the torter of my aye Ton
he was moving about. Jone to be helpful, Fomuttered out of
gorver of my rrouth “I think we ahouid fe at attention.” Seti
4 happened. Don't think he eren dropped hig cigaret,." Well, it
i 54 bote of my business what a London Timea reporter deez bub In
wt | some crack to Miller on the way bavk to the Bord ai eur Lor
| es collrague overheard and mads nome ol servation ite the ef
. if - fort eo for ali this tastier ret.” : wo . i. a
geo gy, tar ne setae ; tg Later st dinner, aWay trom Philby, T remerkes that 4€ -
Hae a ss By JON ODONNELE >. ae damned peculiar that the Briteh Fntelligence whickPhad beet:
“” Washibgton, Oct, 29.~-When THe LNEWS revealed. | meticulous about the ancestry of every American correspondent 1
} Hareld A. %. Philby—in the. London-Washington -opera~; \} men, particularly after @ wave of pacifiam had. swept Oxterd
Hons af the Moscow spy plot, a sleeping memory stirred if Cambridge Universities, with wodergraduates taking «pledge
‘inthe mind of this reporter. SS py $2 88s atts even ie ;
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