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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 9

51 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 51 pages OCR'd
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a * z half the question, It would be mrad £6 adopt ths. view, pyalant in Ani@risa, thal @i ve amunisie kre spies. Indes, the Russian. apy melwork ¥ the best, intelectually br prSfessionahy, are good enough. How, then, did Maclean radoate. fram. Communist to lommunist agent? Why did he - . follow h thie spofession Pah roug @ years. in ‘ blackest treachery ? Brink problem Henna aseeneetnnhitmmnnnant + rising T “is also important Ace bene onnn histories. or he ponent o + | x : , Or Maclean” tenant traiters, Fuchs, an otherwise | { cajolery; depression has bedn | seems to make the ous austert and guiet man, ees | rabiaced' by booming prosper dy. ate Meee eee oslonaily took refuge jn extra- | agd overfull employment. \ Kreater, As s@ many ethers did, erdinary bouts of drinkin aga t Rioyment. he might well have outgrown Burgess. drank to excess for university studen’, Communism, Like one oulgrows Many years And Maclean > Spreading his polucal wings to- the spolty face of adolescence. | f earliest letiars of Melinday | GRY. 5828 Bround him a system Steccess imight have hastened marrage describe Rie “drink, | Of Hving and Government that, une Beets. por. have ne doubt. ing orgie” in Pariy Hig drink. | om Ge Whole, works pretty well DOMISIAE Gponee ie waewae | BE In’ Washington was heavy Over the past ten years be promisine Man of Ke Hime dig °2eash controlled. ' aise should fave seen suiiecent progress in the Poreign Service’: But in ire, and lefer ty evidence of the true character WAS exceptional, At the vary LOPdon, jt got completely gyi ] . of international Communism to | wieast an aimbassadorshig $n < Of Bend. In his last tex months avoid the pitfalls stumbled inte 4 " Washingion.or Paris lay ahead - He fhe Foreign Office he usualy by Maclean and bis fellows, = © . Weihay never know the exatt Geg.% Ogtlle of whisky in bis The generation of traitors was and & nip from 3b wea. BpSrmeselStR” ie MERESAS ofa Uneceraly” to Naat Taf | | 3 lSlose abduct an Shatpy cret Service, What we do | a ar the morning period of me. In this fact Hes: wark : some reason for confidence 1p This gort af drinking certain ¢ know ia that Mackan sther i Britain's future security. - had ng inclination or no oppor- tunity to abandon that em. O88Peaks the pressures of pork |} ployment Bhd clidae instead ‘the eee : perhaps those of black. | cance note Hd id Wasehate abandonient of his country, : ahd perhaps those of that a cambination of fashion: , fear: Far fear, t60. ls & wea of the Communist ‘spymasier a '., No, Donald Duarh Maclean's life hus not been a happy one.“ We may believe with f fidence that the yout The fact. is that Communist agents have tthe opportunity to ohatige their minis: Ones Feergited they are ruthlessly: | retained in thelr sew loyalty. ii is virtually certain that Maclean was paid for the Infor- mation he handed over fo the | Russians, ° _ . Pram the oase histories of . Fuchs and Nunn May we know the. Communist spymasters are punciiilicns on this pointy! -they know that once the agent, has received money. Rowever : t gmail, for services rendered, be is toma tlicaly Suscapible to. all. is @ distasteful subject. At is t! o j able anti-Americanism and the ' , Beemlin's present moodaf aweet.- ; reasonableness sould produce aiyilar delusions among tocdey's me ei 4 geheration, Nrese j “8 ‘o them, the relenfless anypl- Pree eeetrstion do not ahare | why and icrevocalsle dlecinitne th telere, wil nee < Ge of liternatlonad. Cammunt “traedy. SUR OE ee ust be mats crystal clear, e : 4, Goday Jarrow te boomife: | TT - the Hnondae manen is ieee sot of Rhe National Goal Best's Seenamehdahiie yeaa aera ds ! ‘ bu Important to @r ut derStandin Macleans Tevahty to tie Contmunist canke Hbistermittently, a homosexugl. . Hpratsexualliy above evergthigg | ee is the blackmatler's favouky +! : i devers oe, Lo 4 cytes 5 a % ri ce er i tt nari Bg ngs Sa rg OL TER Ge a Gimeno gs Be De Pa oh eS a MR Ra REE Bg naira a a alt Tete Ran ey et ee STEEL
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