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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 27

50 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: May 25, 1951 · Broad topic: Kennedy Assassination · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 50 pages OCR'd
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- Rawle WUT oo” fF ry Mohr \ Bishop. The woman who married two. traitors is herself a committed Communist, and Oo} ME! ANDA _ chose ,to”'live in Russia.. Dées she cearreee row regret her choice? The strange life PET EEE Pd bby SCENE ONE. A ‘corner of the Baku “e Testaurant, possibly Moscow’s most ecle. brated, which takes ts name from the Caspian town Te- aan Temas a om OG nowned for caviar. name t ft RECORD ERind nave are drawn A hard-faced man in be yone: Meters, “ise his late fifties -is by JAMES LEASORvres 18% issla for reasons of finishing” Tunch’ with snotty aaty reorse Blake, two middle - aged - _ — Wormwood women Scrubs after being sentenced . ; camera to photograph theatre two visiting English ta 42 years’ iinprisoument ; He is Kim Philby, the Melinda, for she is always school teachers recognise the various Left-wing journalists Most publicised traitor of news. Philbys. But before theycan and expatriate British and the century who, by his The strect |s crowded, and speak to them. Kim and American apologists for the “wn admission, while work. I the biting cold, ‘with Monga panish. idenis sh Communists. . ee epee ER crhaps 20 women wearin ese’ two incidents show 2 sf ing for the British Secret Py ABS, 20 womne coats, he their pathological nateeg oy have crs ibys are see Service, was for 30 years hesitates; everyone looks so ‘fear of any personal pub- tnye, times to avold being TELE LLL also Russia’s most SucCess- Inlich alike. He focuses on icity. traced. Why? Has their ful spy tn the West Philby, thinking that Melinda Was it for this over-the- notoriet ad in the West __ ; wht follow, Shoulder look back at life endowed them with a come ~~~ On Philby’s left sits Hilda But oMetinaa + 4] inat, 16 years ago, Melinda Terham, now a translator in wrapped in furs-and so out) gave up Ther country house plex about their safety ? @ Moscow publishing firm ; wardly tird{stingulshable im England, with its houses’. - S. on his right, a dark-haired from the other women knows keeper and gardener, plys ecure ane hO tatks with quick 0 Geng of dispersion. She the ever-prodigal genérosity In Moseow, with the KGB animated gestures, . turns swiftly in the opposite Of a rich and trusting secret police—of which She 45 his fourth wile, direction, ‘and disappears American mother, to fee Philby is a senior and Melnds, a~woman With the ; ores ilty of With her three children, the _ ; . ; into the safe anonymity of honoured officer—-they are OP pee epenvied distinction ihe Metro station youngest still a baby in arms, surely safer from unwanted —— of having marrted not one, a to join her first husband, visitors than they could be but two Brivish trattors— - Donald Maclean, tn Moscow ? anywhere else In the world frst, Donald Maclean: now, Recognised Did she ever imagine what . Kim Philby. ? . her present life in Moscow | But their safety naw seems Philby stantis up, puts on SCENE TWO: A Brittsh Would be ke? And is she Uucomfortably like the safety his peaked cap, his heavy Shakespeare Company has content with it. if she dig? Of people behind bars. If it “goat, and ushers out his presented “Al's Well that et 4s examine the 4s theirs is a prison they | GNSS. As they leave, a Ends Well" in Moscow ta Philbys’ iife together ,now, Rave carefully built for British tourtst outside recog- enthustastic applause. AS Melinda sees few fofttiners. themselves over many years. mises them—and ratses his the audience leave the Such contacts as she and her When Melinda fied to | < re wey
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