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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 6
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Car craze
n‘and out of office hours Begr-
gébs's chief interest seemed to
‘s——fast cars, ornate cars, CAIs:
hh character and gold Sttingg.” |
é would deodle on Foreign
Office notepaper, drawing antique
limousines, Rolls-Royces th
enormous headlamps, menacing
ments and gold-plated accessories
"5 One of the Burgess cars.” gee
model by & mahar.jah or an oll
multi-milionalre from Texas.
When he drove a car he drove
it .st—frighteningly fast, some
of fis passengers have sald., :
Iu was fast driving, which to
50 extent led to Burgesg re-
turring to England from service
in Washington. Three tim in
one day he was picked up for
speeding by police in Virginia. :
On the third occasion the driver .
was said to be an acquaintance he
had met on the road who wag not
licensed to drive. He pleaded.
diplomatic immunity and the:
police action was stopped. But a:
complaint went to the Embassy. , /
”.;. Two scenes’. "™
Burgess returned to London and.
renewed acquaintance with Mac-,
jean, who was still apparently
Caird in which @ colleague pas.
said nave broken a leg. iro
newspapers referred to m fracag in
which Arabs were involved
The Ambassador, Sir Rowaid
Campbell, did not think Maclean's
réle called for a serious reproof.
Later Maclean left Egypt to ‘have
| psychiatric treatment in London,
since he was in a state of high
nervous tension. '
In London, in a Soho club, he
was involved in another: scené.
table was knocked over, glasses
went fying. Maclean fell the
floor, and the manager threatened
to cali the police.
The fact that earller in this club
he had been led sobbing from the
Hitt after it had stuck between
floors was regarded by acquaint-
inot a cured man.
‘and hag been full of anxieties an
-doubts. " Whether, those doubts;
were personal or, political was, nok;
- lavident
he answer to the riddle maf;
forthcoming from Paris
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‘to | which’ the Yallway town’. ©:
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mudguards, of with the accoutre ="
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worrfing about an incident, in: -
ances as confirming ¢ at he was | Talso. shows the ee ot te
"One sald: “He has been going’
_through great internal co tetas, |
News’ in U.S.3\ 3
. ‘ New York, Sunday.*
THE missing diplomats are
front page news for most o
New Yorks newspapers today.
Only the New York Times prints
the story tucked away in Page 14,
but still running for nearly a
solumn under the ' heedio :
yoritish Still Hunt Diptomata Sa
ain.
The Times also prints a 12-
résumé of the case in its pos
News of the Week supplement.
The New York Herald-Tribune
comes out boldly with the front-
page headline across two columns:.
A.W.O.L. Britons Political Iasue :
Their Private Lives now Suspect.”
The New York Journal-Amert-
can, a Hearst paper, whose week-
day afternoon edition has all along
been headlining the story in two-
pages the story today. under
it e tiwo Srereh Shifts i Atrios
oma
ru . for 2 ‘snches, # dispatch
@ New York Sunday New :
the’New York Sunda irror also
place the story on their main news-
pages, The Mirror's ten’ + ingh
states: “French Do ;
Briton Flies Prague.” ubts Miss
All dispatches now make’ o
mention of the private lives of the
two men. Papers als. make con-
siderable mention of the secrets
| both men might have known and
the potential danger there could be
‘if they did get into Sovi
oviet hands.
; |The Journal-American says the
‘disappearance of the men, whose
“names were signed in messages to
: Britain by a ira Man in Paris,
-and perhaps a Fourth Man in
: Rome, has given British officials
ithe worst case of jitters since the
Klaus Fuchs atomic spy case.,
Public and newspaper comment
‘British people over failure of the
owerful and mysterious M.1.5 to
ifrn up a potential clue about
absent-without-leave diplomafs.”
Theories range ‘from a : beilef!
at the men were on a “ ti
2 rolic " suggestio :
they are: on a “two me a
aoaTe 2Ous aaterata Pues
se
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