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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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“dd its best to avoid war while Israel
. “ha been toying with the idea of seizing
Tthe Gaza strip no matter the conse-
«quences and has only been deterred by
ithe threat of an attack from her reat.
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wo : wae _ - . -io . ... Council are ndw apparently known to
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shave been taunting the British Ambas-
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ce mT er i e i guardians of “the “nation 1 Senta po
a _ sequrity of Great Britain are imm . This spectaculac;leak may well have ;
- frgm the ordinary critical gaze that th come from agents-in Cyprus who have '
“rE th} case of any common défaulter wif’ & coePt, hate the Bgyplans
: agains’ S So ;
Loe sehd him to gaol for three months fer’ “it is at this crucial state of our milk
a . non-payment of his rates. - -: . tary affairs in ‘the: Middle East that ! .
Messrs Burgess and Maclean have. there are, now at the Staff College at; '
escaped. and nothing much more will” Camberle sore Olea highest fa ag j
happen to their reputations in Eng-: our combined strategy. Good idea’
and other than a Parliamentary drub- eee oe oe
bing. ‘The. officials who are responsible .” ces The Big Tip hate
for letting these | blackguards slip - : -
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: _? " SIPHE Foreign? Office has Just pub- ; :
through the-net will be chided but not, T lished an indignant statement
brought to book.
. °° gout the bripery that was attempted °
In the meantime, while all this soft for the oil prospecting rights over terri- a ;
ate _ | soap is being appied another remark-* tory near the Oman Peninsula in the, '
ee able but somewhat unnoticed leak bas Persian Gulf. Ay *. wt I
FP taken place in Cairo. - ayo. ‘The bribe offered by King Saud of: }
oe Colonel Nasser has produced for Saud! Arabia te’ Sheikh Zaid was &
public gaze some very remarkable secret squalid ttle tip of about £30,000,000. }
documents which might well have come This bauble was hotly refused by the . : }
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from the top drawer of the Burgess and. Sheikh who reported his bribers to the
Tae : . ‘Maclean conspiracy. . * + - British, The reign Office held ‘him
as ; These papers are aimost certainly up as a paragon of virtue. .-
ae ; genuine, - “L'" But note this. The backers behind
ee They haye been photographed by the the unsuccessful fbribers were.
" 7 7 Egyptian Government and have been “AR.AM.C.O, the fast Arabian-Amert- :
wea reproducediin the Cairo Press, Nasser:, can Oil Company, ho own most of this j
on ; allenges the British Ambassador to. part of .the oll-bearing world, ey :
ot Ibok on them and deny their. auther} ‘were Involved up to the hjlt in this dis- '
tee ticity. - ; wo © | reputable deal, ae: ; ; * ;
- \They are s secret appraisal by thp:: Address ali complaints not to the
litary. Intelligence Department . of “shifty King Saud bul. to his Wall Sfree '
e War Office in Whitehall -as backers in the United States. ~ -
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