◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26

66 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 19, 1956 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 66 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
CO. conspiracy bial ‘to discredit — ra the BY ATSERAA AT HAPMAN ‘@) PINCHER VIDENCE that the spate of security | yee — which may not yet have reached its height—is part of a vast Communist conspiracy to weaken the morale of the . West is accumulating in the flies of British and U.S. Intelligence. Having given up the idea of imposing Communism by force the Russlans are ¢con- centrating on psychological warfare to achieve their purpose. A LEAK FLUE concept of a pilot L to discredit Britain’s leaders through exposing Inefficiency and vice may seem melodramatic. But it 1s no more so than many of the indisputable facts in the succession of post-war events culminating in the unmask- ing of Harold Philby as the Third Man. What other explanation fits this sample of events?:— THE NEWS about Philby, Which was—m+<—months oid, é owes ae mos . ae . s sting ge cts emg « *, T _ wen we 2 ma! a mt 5 end A was Government as a result of a U8. newspaper “leak” Just when It critical originally timed to break just in advance of the President's visit to Mr. Macmillan. more’ and more’ forced out of the was already In trouble. It was FIRST Indication that Mr. John Profumo, the War Minister was involved In a scandal came to Mr. George Wigg, the Soctalist M.P., in an anonymous telephone call. Mr. Wigg. who was In a Itiend’s house In Dudley, Worcs, has never discovered how the caller knew where he was. It was a mysterious phone call In Paris which first put a Daily Express reporter on to the news that Burgess and Maclean had fled to Russia in 1951. ' CALL GIRLS A RUSSIAN “defector” A gave the U.S. informa- tlon leading to the arrest of Willlam Vassall, the Admiralty spy, just when Britain was negotiating for Polaris submarine missiles. A MAIOR scandal can- cerning call-girls Is develop- ing at the United Nations headquarters in New York, YOUNG POLES visiting relatives here are being induced under threat to cultivate and report on promising young Britons who may one day have responsible positions. COMMUNIST agents doubling up as diplomats and business men put advertisements In newspapers for pen-friends and partners to play games. AS PARLIAMENT was told recently, there are pimps and gigolos to compromise Western women travelling in Russian ships. The Kremlin’s prectice scems to be to “shop” fts Agents as soon as they have outlived their usefulness so that the resulting trial will cause a scandal. * — —_ —— _ a British - . ade ong he one “at “ es Pow : te fa. : . ie ~~ eS AS a ERT DS DAMAGE : wonder how man @se6 defectors 7 of deliberately Planted. Seems More than coinet- fence that in many cases exposure reveals vy. well as security ineMetence On this evidence, which 1 only a fraction of on material available to Intettl- 4 gence authorities, Y submit there {is a World-wide conspiracy to discredit our 11 And the Way of . hammering iP is giving the Cc Alllance wilt ontinue until there is a mbssty ~ ment in secy ity, @ Improve ——_—_—_ —— = wawaae
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 59
Jump straight to page 59 of 66.
Reader
Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 35
Stay inside Cambridge Five Spy Ring with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Cambridge Five Spy Ring Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Intelligence Operations archive hub and the more specific Cambridge Five Spy Ring topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
Related subtopics
MKULTRA
28 documents · 928 known pages
Subtopic
Interpol
17 documents · 1676 known pages
Subtopic
Basque Intelligence Service
10 documents · 965 known pages
Subtopic
Release 2000 08
2 documents · 77 known pages
Subtopic
08 08 Cia-Rdp96-00789R000100260002-1
1 documents · 4 known pages
Subtopic
08 08 Cia-Rdp96-00789R002600320004-5
1 documents · 12 known pages
Subtopic