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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7
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Br Shs Planted
Flight to Soviet,
Friend Declares
i
Panis, June 8 OF News)--A
third man in the siysiery of Brit
tein’s fea missing diplomats con-
firmed donight..thal they “had|
“platined fo escape into Russia and
‘that: he wag to have fled wi
thent, but gop seid fost ab. the Isat
q
minute. BO Jatt right, Do not. MOTT Love to
i He, t00, a “gnemnbeg. of” the. ale + & De at. AS RTA ct
British disiomatls corps. Tonight cs ee a Sir?
{ke arrived from Yanden” do foin
crack counter-esplgnage’” agence |’
lthruout western Eurgpe in search
tor his Russian speaking par,
Telegram Implied Theent * . Wee
Tx London, however, the ‘British!
foreign office sidully maintained
that the diphima ts, | ts, Donald D Mac
Lean, . 36. and: Francis money!
; ‘géad, 40, went off to gay spots
in’ Rurope on an itipebhous es!
capadés in keeging with what Lone
don described aa their “emotlonal
instability.”
But disclusure of telegrams oth}
laent their families from Pacis {nl
ash oue of them implied he
was forced to leave under: threats
put a néy complexion an the batt
‘ing cede.
thier, at the sania tiie, received this
Telexeana ( Coples Studled ae San es
ss. red * Hist
i mather, Mrs. J. 3. Besseti, that)
» [he waa. off for wm gay time. “Ter
‘ ees Te ef io aR
atin ae PE
wen’: ‘ee
sone "fourth ¢ mar”
ae to be af 8 Aifterent nation:
“4
“Maclean's” American wife, the
former Melinda Merling of New:
York who expecta her third chfld
viext week, received. this message
semercny: ¢ ;
“Had * tenve unexpecteddy,
Sorry, darling I love you. F e you. Please
He nat atop loving me. Donald.”
tady Mecieas, Donald's raolhe
unsigned, meseage: ‘ey a guile
Burgess, * nowaver,”
: Dab -aorre for my allence”™ the
message sald, “Am embarking x
along Mediterranean’ holidey, Do
fergvie. Guy.”
The original, sending saptes ‘ot
thie telegrams. were found in a
Paris post office today. Thay: were)
in the handwriting of a een
individual and handwriting ex«
perts of the Surete were snalyeing
fihem tanigng. .-
The telegrams could have been
written! days ago, then filed when
it became apparent the bunt for
the missing men waren. “"
Whether the “third man? wea
teonnected with the “fourth man”
Just how much the “thind man” wa, a matter of speculation, All’
nas told officials of the plans of/ police sett aay was that the!
‘the other two is het: being
vulged. “Dhere were * snereasing
ahi"thied man” had backed out of
the escape plang ab. the jest mo;
fears that the wealthy, acholarly.iment when he realized the enot-;
‘debonair MagLean and the xn
wey, droapy-shouldered Burgess
may have taken Angic-American
peurlop secrets. behing the iron
curtain, . Log
Pied Man Under wrape
' Both know about WW there te to
imow about AngicAmerican diple-
the American department in
‘foreien office, Burgess from
../seareh oon. fhe Continent,
mity of the step, giving up his a
reer and forsaking hfe famib.
Some 16,000 secret. police and
special agents had joined in: the i
Bn
French offisiais acid they were
jeertain Maclean and Burgess no
longer were in Paris. +
Ther had conceniraied ‘their
magy--MadcLean from heading a jaar’ in the ‘past
ound Montmartre and places
men Haye & gay tans,
tz. Ladd s.
Mr, Clegg ie
ir. Glavis
: , ‘gonfidential position hy held until! in
MT ; frecentiy in the Beta ‘enxbasay Mi eee, ce «
me, Washington. ee
British officials in “London a eee
isisted hat neither mlasing iste an _ *
boo itpat had worked on codes or hadi: .
. jabeess bo them, and said that
slate. papers or. codg, Books: me
missing. :
b Nevarthsless, officials axl ‘that!
¥ their having collec ornite| ret
tion. aver a long peried the situa-| oT REC ORDED —
tion could be serious. American’ 449 Gui x wal
authorities were. kept informe ot; pe
the developments. 1 a
The “t man,” aver, was! .
udder ‘wraps. Ik wag he who're: a D AIA Ape
. portediy Vipped off London ea — ae ETS y ae hung = Times Werald .
’ were Rot ON as cor vie
~ ane they vanished cae: BY LETTER ER iiss me xf pave i3
today, but on p serious tnlsslene. Bi FOIA Re QUE a5
RL a
one $ Ysa Te,
Ree. a a
- kas
n ae . 7 :
Saas ee i Suances ‘s ” wey S, ox
fear aM tet EIN Bt nee ae oe
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