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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 6
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: a a ae, a : PR ke kes Cn ioe
J: ra Tr 9 ‘the BBC. joined Maclean f the}
ep ra) ° _»,* foreign geryice.- He shared fag, -
boot rs #:#" with Macidan's brother Alan) ‘« 5
Nock oe yocG. « Burgess and Donald Mac :
; BL ghey Aye OR gE a "corresponded Occasionally. ~.Their'
i : Jf ’ ircle of friends overlapped. Both
5 - . new Teport switched the hunt to were In touch with the artistic and
; > From PAGE ONE ' "Montmartre. — poetic world, with painters and; *
neo yO the efforts of French police’
we islands, and coastal] towns such as) and British agents from Scotland pote, 824 people on the tringe of
. Fositano and Amalfi — traditional | Yard have new toc added those |: t tha
"playgrounds of -the international | of the mete, FBI A number Maclean had no: Coes eaert that
a set i? which they believe Bur-/of FBI men in Para investigate | cathies and thet Burgess thereon:
'+." fess and Maclean belonged, ing the route by which Communist nowledgable about Russia and the! .
"cabal pensions, private beaches,| agents are smuggled to tron Our-| Bolshevi Revolution, had neveri - . oe
cafés, and a clubs were | tain countries Olned in the Search | voiceq admiration for its leaders or! *
_ watched, for the British diplomats. — :.. thelr principles. a 7 -
. Swiss police have been asked te A few friends add qualifications,
found § men under supervision if! on, said yesterday : “Maclean js
nares has ‘Dass rt numbered n treineng igh-minded m. B with
& tremendous re Tha
1674591, issued in London. Mac-| Pret perhaps singin si Thab
2.
lean hag passport number : ‘¢ High mo tives’ .
C365675, issued
From Saris Mr, and Mrs, James| * Burgess might have done s
thing allly, and a little irresp
Scherres arrived in London by air 7
toad, iennneY Shaw” Tataheld ible; Maclean would have had the
Surrey, to nelp Mrs. Maclean, who
is expecting her third baby thig
week.. Mrs. Scherreg ig Mrs, Mac-
lean’s sister... a “ER oa ber
They: differed *::'
In London yesterday friends Te-
called that the friendship’ of
Maclean and Burgess was a WAYS
illogical, stniee they were of dif-
ferent types. Tt started at
Cambridge, ->. .-- 0°: Sa
Burgesal was the dominant
character, though Jess well-
endowed. intellectually, according
to the college authorities, Maclean;
- -Ttalian police say they have been
asked by British authorities not to
repeal any information ag to
repults of thetr inguiry, but to com-
mfnicate directly wit ondon.
¢ hunt is also going on in the
Riviera. -Police are checking on
departures of bassengera, steamers,
” and private yachts at such centres
as Cannes, Mentone, and Nice.
y* In Parts last night a Streté off-
cial said: “In the pet three days
' : we have -checked and double
co checked on every possible clue,
aoe “Thousands of coples of the
‘aA, lotures af the nissing men have
ae en seen by police and the ubiic.
Yet up to now we have only flitting
traces of thé men." .
’ The French manhunt, Involving
over 5,000 police and other officials,
_ has been greatly complicated by
-w 7. “the fact that they were asked by
.- | the British authorities to join if
the search less than & Week ago,
long after the men arrived in
' France on May 36. the brilliant, nervous student:
The proprietor of a Paris hotel found something to admire In
Temorted that a man similar to B
lean came to his hotel a week
om
very highest motives. If he were
attracted to Communism it would
have been as to a region. He ts
of the stuf of which martyrs are
made.” : : .
Another sald:: “If you knew
Burgess well it was on a&@ ques-
Hon of time before you heard hi
arguing about Russia. He woul
raise his voice and lay down the
‘Jaw. He seamed to know what he _
was talking about. -: —: a rn :
‘,“On: the, subject of the “1917 a Las
Revolution Ihave heard “him poo
argue with White Russians on: we =
historical points and put: if 20} .
he
‘
right, Why he made himgelf 80
expert on this was never clear;
singe lt wasn't in the line of his‘
urgess‘a" devil-may-care attitude, Joh’ vee ee Bd
“ After he had left the Press:
the freedom with which he did
and sald what he fancied. - department ofthe Forelgn @ffice}
‘ In ister Years they were not 8/in” White all his stibjects Were
? ig and other reports set police | closely associated but the link of America—where he was posted—-
concentrating on bars, hotels. and undergraduate days Was not! and then the Far East. Both hete
ter and in America hig colleagues did’
. Tesorts in the St, Germain ares, “A’ broken. Burgess, after a spell with
oe Hot regard him as brilliant”
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