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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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53 . LONDON CAP) <A CHRISTMAS Ep ote IN THE HALDWRITING OF Guy BURGESS, BRITISH DIPLOMAT WHo VANISHED 1/2 YEARS AGO, WAS DELIVERED AT HIS MOTHER'S HONE TODAY. SHF SAID IT was THE FIRST REAL EVIDENCE THAT HER SON zs ST ; URGESS AND HIS FOREICN OFFICE COLLFACUr DONALD MACLEAN, AN ANERICAN AFFAIRS EXPERT, DISAPPEARED bu MAY 35, o THERE’ HAS prey WIDE SPECLLATION Tha > THEY FLED TO THE Fast 2 HELP THE COMMUNIST WORLD ITS COLD WAR AGAINST ThE WEST. a BURCESS* woTHRE NRSEVELYI BURGESS BASSETT, SPEAKING FRon HER APARTNENT NEAR Picéaprite CIRCUS, SAID SHE was "ABSOLUTELY CERTATN® HER SON WROTE THE LETpeS SIGNED fw HIS Nanre "IT IS A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT,* Shir SAID. IT IS THE First REAL SICN WE HAVE HAG THAT HE Is STILL Avyipee conta FRIELD OF MRS. Baste TOLD REPORTERS IT was "QUITE A HAPPY LETTER® CONTAINING ORDINARY CHRISTMAS GREETINGS, RTHERE WAS NO INDICATIGN IN IP ar WHERE GUY MAY BE,* TuE FRIEND F Ss LY "NOVEMBER, ® IT WAS POSTMARKED MCHDAY NIGHT, HOWEVER, AND IN TEE DOCKYARD AREA oF LONDON, 4 THE LAPSE GF TINE BETWEEN THE WRITING AND TRE MAILING OF THE LETTER Pe GES TED THE POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS SENT IT TO A FRIFEUUD HERE To BE REPOSTED, THE FACT THAT IT was POSTED IN A DOCKYARD AREA ALSO SYGGESTED A POSSIBILITY THAT BURGESS, IF ACTUALLY IN AN IRON CURTAIN COUNTRY, SENT | THE CUTER TO ENGLAND IN THE CARE OF A SEAMAN, WHO DROPPED IT IN A Xe \ LOCAL nN : WE1116AFS 12/23 - od | ad ee . . wee _ Me . - a _ . ENCLOSHIRE
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