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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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| ~ ot 0-19 ee Eden and Cabinet Meet To Approve Spy Report LONDON, Sept 21 ()—Prime Minister Eden met with his cabi-|Papers continued to Jash the For- eign Office. | net today to put final approval : . on a government report a the!” The Daity Express said the two Burgess - MacLean “runaway/™e? fled from England in 1951 spies” case. after they received a warning from “a British official in Wash- Sir Anthony, fully recovered]. og ' ington,” described by the paper from a recent attack of influenza,|). “a Russian spy.” drove to London from his country," .. . | Ty In his official capacity he re-j ne ° Binet amet in the mid ,iseived information that British “of the - ning sevieune newspaper security men were after the two attacks made on the Foreign Of-| arplomats. the Express declared. | : : : s unofficial capacity—as fice in recent years for. its: Russi h handling of the case of Denald/® #ussian Spy——he passed on! MacLean and Guy Burgess, Brit-|the Information to a Soviet con- ish diplomats who fled to the!#¢t m Yasiiligeon, Whibin tum Communist East in 1951 aiter| arin Burress and MacLean. serving as longtime Russian! “Who in fact is that third man spies. jwho gave the tipoff?" the Ex- For four years the Foreign'press asked. ; Office, under both Labor and! Had Defense Secrets Conservative governments, main-; Both Burgess and MacLean! tained tirht secrecy over detalls:had access to allied secrets at a| of the men’s defection. This was/time when the whole Western broken last week end whenlagefense setup was in its | former Russian spy Viadimirjiye stage. P n forma Petrov desciosed they had been According to Foreign Office Soviet agents for 20 years. spokesman, secret documents of Disclosure Cofirred importance were withheld from The Foreign Office then con-;MacLean beginning in April, firmed Petrov's disclosures and| 1951. . said Bureess and MacLean were| A man accustomed to.reading! under investigation when they|top secret papers could™guess: fled. : that the flow to him was thin-! Spurred by anery newspaper ning and that this could mean’ eriticism, the government prom-./that he was being watched, In ised an official white paper Fri- ‘such circumstances it would day giving full details of the}have been easy for MacLean to! cake, pass the word to Burgess Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News ~ Wash, Srar / < 2 N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror | Ms : 1 Jey Rea teste vient rae Spt 4
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