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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 34

132 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 21, 1953 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 128 pages OCR'd
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eg ce ee Eee metas wa Faber arta Te ow-Burgess an spefulation which gpfve then household - familiar names. . Now the stare is setdfor their reappearance. Officially the Foreign Office knows : / nothing of the M. and B, . "EL story, Some officials doubt whether it would be to EMPIRE NEWS REPORTER Russian advantage even now io mention the two men, Ict ease BURGESS and Donald Maclean may show their alone produce them. faces to the world outside the Iron Curtain for the ‘ But this view is no: shared lirst time since they desertcd their Foreign Office jobs S°77F8)3,, by foreen diptomais na disappeared irom Britain four years ago—all Since ne went away Guy oe if : Burgess has sent two letters 19 cause cf the thaw in the cold war. Dee thar Mrs, J. R.~Basselt. But by returning to this country they could expose o1 Arinrion house. Giccaaills. it iOS j The dirst was al ristmas. ‘Nemselves to charges under the Official 1953. posted in London by a ecqets Act, said a Forcign Office man ‘courier trom, Czechoslovaki. ac . 5 v 2 U »lprcay. A charge would depend on 3" Lonclon pactmare oth . wheat it = i F : And Dona aclean? ere whet its believed the men had actually end oN ers to hin wife vont, Otherwise the men have committed W@W Melinda—only £2,000 m: de pay- > oilence.” ‘able to her by an unknown wan a7 01 ' ‘in a@Swiss bank a few mopihs | The great thew that has aircady jalled Maclean's disappearance. erought amazing concessions by the & Communist world has now also brought arknowledement for the first time by hussian and British diplomats of the run- rays’ presence behind the Iron Curtain. | : Argel a year ago Mrs. Maglean - Gave advice pwith} her two children van chea jfrom Lausanne and has never ‘been heard of again, Maclean and Burgess know nothing about ato... bombs, but it has long been suspected they had a a hand in advising apon Russian propaganda, ‘ he us? uiness of these two ex-Foreign | -Wice men to the Russians is considered | tglbe about over. They were. small fry in L& 26 ‘he dipiomilic world. It was only their = asaclean. t ai mae ae ~ a t tf a. ‘ v7 . yor de : ne aeot i . i ne | lL ' Py vty 1
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