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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 16

50 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 49 pages OCR'd
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Ta 2od4, whatever hand was INN Sia tough the digeescdve vhases or Russian fitpedidfieur is carder to believe, but there they Bre in ihascow, An acquaintance of tHe vene ‘ésevibes DBurevss as ioadebately tal, blue-eyed, curly-haired aod with the alert expression of a fax terrier, eigelle, a great reader, talker, walker, hoastes, who swath and gyvank like a fish. (Lis dria ip yeas that of a dedierted poper tather than an uniicveraduadie, He alsa wanted friteasely in te bked and Tarwoly gueeceded, fu “ea wanted, too, fo he taken seri eusl¥ and never was, TS wae said that, brilHant avind ated ali, he svmed a parody of the aan hed Vaated to be, Doors upen dy Eeltain vo cpr ¢ell-counéected yours wien jeer Cambridge. Buepess' vartieuher: door-was iy the Talks Depart. nent of the oovcrnaent-ounied sritish Broadcast erpor: tion, About this time, li the middle Mds, he anrouieer tie eonyersion to Paseiear, his wond, to ian peut, Later inparnigtiog Teak the this aries ¢ HT vet begpe aa t Eotryess, wis. Doge oy Poaptigy aaih seceeds worm his aey divl. wacsh Patty. [His seiWOR wiedttindesd, Whey eet or Ue slaved promptly dot, che Bastisld BS UAT wosilid tee a hese? a thrsd Bhp ipl Stir eds Fim AUER er eeiTey far roteuterinteldon nen Uverseas aad in a braden tle, “ad to do with deeppine seers hy Parachute, woupurution wiih resistance farce. sweat Pins. wall “a keen yvoune oflctat” ard wilely adivired, In EOAL Ee tieved the i hae UBC and remained thew yenics vo & producer iu the Burcnead DMOpapande departs, “ese BRO years be ~eerel of his eatesua Views. ‘heh an ally.- “ Progen’ Bei epg nraie “ ¥ LE theoawh eollews sid tuts bis BEL days, Bara. stedioushy Cwtiewted ce cnicen ADMIN Creating a. taboeful chae- velew, The Bathtach ines tut infrenrnthy. ifs habit of hreukfastine, the Ritz. Now ang vould vent a auite at Cintide the fine het, ated foe no pur lee eeeson toss a pete, Burgess habitually Soe Inia! ftedes a wishuced, | i Pa He was immenselé ons | Peerage | He was what the Gris: Thea! yaliticad j Russia, of estargie, wag | : : eo Oe) tors because of anti-American boat } rua agit | style @f dtess, in tive manne: af | Futesety Pie : ouiadbiggs Buvvess’ ine, to the Foveign i} uv diteéted \ OiYice, He i beeane a wember of the News | Departraent at fivst, fen assist. ant private sceretary to the No. | 2 man in the Foreign Office, Heu- j tor MeNeil, In 1947, after a ' i if hvie? gral examination, he we nada 4 member of the perniz netet struih, Veoough all these tears Buse ; Sess was ivi notoriously with {2% pudey ex-ballet dancer named | { i | | Jack Hewit, being artestied from Hine to dime for drauken driving (ie was an abominable bug per sistent dviver } or getting involved in deinken brawls that did not | Perch the courts, # 1 AWE de ail, wat the waual pie~ fere ef a British diploanes, Bat | Whitehead cither did nok kyvw ae id nok enre, Bue moral deterioration ayiyicars to teve been accelerated after he poiwed the War Bast desi wt the Povvivn Office. We and i Howin Jiat a fat in New Band iL. da whieh they strred almost ‘aiehlly allinale padtios, ' His Parties Were | Really Slam Bang sa? i ‘These galherines were riodefs Dot disudes, There was se Fen Iiitte Paid shoutinw mud the crashing: af _ bodies, frequently left in hbatidages arr turgess Himself ,atece made his exiten a stretcher, LA fellow Gplomat had thrawn i hin down a stairwell, tn addition cio Uiese Inadequacies as a tenant i he ow Nevertheless, Btirgcss ix Ange wat, $IG, wis eppoiuivad Seeard eecectiry af the British Eye bassy de Washington, ¢ pluin of phous. Bitrgcas hired frequently epresseil a disteste fur things Aer: tied His eureer in thig Caraley ais uiatthibiled ti the fied erie, {lis tables to the Poreiyn OMice were held ap by his supe- tye bias, We was unpopular with his : peal leollearues and he was drinking ceaschessty. On ane diy in Feb. wy J001, he was arrested three times within an hear in Virginia. fue deiving over 80. ntile 2 wis hour, Whee a British visiter to the chihbassys reported hisy te the Animssader for anti-British re- marks, he wis ordered home, fr there. was seme Machiavel- Trin puepose in this evcentrie, N.Y. DAILY NEWS bee Perfect Picture as nel prompt with thé rent, - ieheview if has vot yet been dis- : Po <OFered, A normal secret” agent. hid. nave awisheit wei hay ktening post in ih tae world, Furgess was baek in Tonden qe May 7, 1051, amd the Poveien = {52a made it plain that his re- Bo. cation avas expected though. he erayl take his: thine about sub- Poitings TL Washington, he told @ itend, was “absolutely fright fil. Senator McCarthy. Alb these perges. Terrible atmosphere,” aH, us fe Prd Duart Maciean’s stevy is iiffermait, but the provression toward disintegration is as plain ta ere, iJe was the san af Sir Denald Maclean, a distingenished Tdheval taember of Parliament and cabi- nef minister whe dicd when young Jicnald was 7a. Is father’s for- toe was small and Donald ¢ tered Combridee with the as mnee of relatives, j Maclean v then talS, sandy+ ved rnd vathec fat and Cathe. Diffdent and withdrawn, ha wie Bilneted to the-ecemingly extro- weried Barges’ anid he, don, - lantetive Erde ish afar, sed friends of Hive period as ble hue weak Ryall he himself has sadd that Bor- gess hed a strone influenee ever jm, an Tafluencé which he claimed to biive eonquered aticr feaving colleeé, Tis senolars was brilliant am? he wassed die reeuly fret the ciiversity to tie wantnt Pereign Service, Big died. his scpbon te the At Winelenn an i af British Diplomat HMeowas in Londun uniit Lass, ther was sent to Pavia as is wrdersceretary and worked very bard. He nilopted the prave man- wer and the derk suit, hombure mend umbrella of che diplomat and he was marked as a young man fe watch. ; His evenings he spent in sniatl Left Bank taves with artists are acoiptors., Thera were no Bore Depe shenanivans. We tmpresséd hiv elders by his stendiness and ti petworthiness. A friend has said thet if you gave Maclean a jettor belwould have mailed it, while Birgess either weuld have fov- otten iL ot opened it and rend it, Phe Maclean of this period ence remgrked that. thevgh he wenutiagd «a Marxist he had dde- cided ta throw da iis lot with the Op pwersove, In 1940, In one. of his raniites throvgh the Left Bank cafes, Maclean niet and promptly mar- wae extremely abtractes—aut avealthy girl from Chieago, Me: 68-69 < eS euuital ALG: hinds Cutiy > Miele yeh Hever, lhe openiy deposed Rennes but he teontfested the svi when ¢ ko We stark. sherry iL oflen diene The Germans avcre soca | France and ithe Mae Re sonth to Bordeaux, Myeucks they returned to Maelarnd on Maclear worked steadily at i Forefgi GMee welll 194. WA hard work. he mixed eccasiena’ hidtd deinkine, There wete. los weekends ducliv which Khe woes Gsappedar Teen his wife, then ye Chrn pedivent.to move lard work In 1044 le was disyatehedt t¢ Washinglon as First Seeretacsy & rare port for a man of Si. He was there throughout the perioc of the develonment of the ston Domb and he avas in & position ie know of what was going on, ‘his owes the period ef Alovy Hiss’ greatest infheenee in Wiate infston, aud if Weowt Be interest. ing to keow if thay were se ipiktinted, — Whe Macleans lived apart 1saer ep eee eater.
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