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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14
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‘ could, although he.was not so
‘ favorably situated, « being” “ofS
far lower rank than Maclean.
. But Burgess was more mo~*
bile and he hopped about Lon-"
don and Washington as busily.
as a bird picking up worms, !
and he was clever enough not
_ to waste his time. “#24 1 3h
. But their lot was to do a%
i 5 ae harm over and beyonds
The usefulness” of purgesal
ad Maclean to the Soviet
On increased when. they,
. DONALD D MACLEAN,
Xegse of” the - Treason’ ‘Twins
on ae e-Th-eligs 8 considerable ad-
Ae ion. Both men were homq- | yance in frankness, for it tel
sexuals. Other homosexuals | no lies. True, it is not com
« Continued from First Page. came to their ald when théy | Oictely honest, for it says tha
| influence of powerful people.|, Were threatened. ‘This wasde-'}-yyactean “may have bee
1°?" But most of their pro-.
plorable. But it made it still | warned" that‘he was under
|. tectors were. utterly un. |! organizations to look at the | tin that he was so warned.
- dossiers of Burgesa and Mac-
1. were actuated by nothing | lean and say, elther In private wom drops the pretense,
{,more sinister than a de-; or in the British government's |. did not know: Burgess: and_
‘men who seemed to them ) PApED": So "Lh S] otherwise, however,” It’ is
to! have the makings ‘of | Yes, both of them’ were |! empty to the point of impa-;;
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| more difficult for the security- investigation, It is quite cera
‘tainted by communism, |
|ssire to help two likeable. |) recently . published : “white , | ‘Mactean’ to be Soviet agents.”
good public servants if || Communists, and therefore |- gence and far past that '!.
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