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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 9
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d Burgess, 44, appealed to thelstop them from Jeaving the |
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‘Russiang for: asylum: after dis- country.”
-eovering they were belng investi-| Petrov wrote:
J gated by British security agents. “I can now disclose beyond
Petrov sald another Kremlin all coubit that these two men
‘agent who worked in the Soviet "@@ularly supplied the Kremlin
iwith all the information they
Embassy In London told him! could Jay their. hands on as
that in 1945 Burgess brought trusted servanta of the Foreign
thim “briefcases full of Foreign) Office.”
Office documents.” They were| Petroy said a Russian secret
photographed and quickly turnediagent named Hislytsin, who had
back. been in close touch with the
Even though Burgess andjdiplomats in London, told nim:
‘MacLean became close iriends) “Tt was posted to our embassy
lafter leaving Cambridge, Petroviin London in 1945. My job was
said, “the most astonishing fact!
.; «is that the two men . . JM. V. DG. (secret police). I per-
did not know of each other's!sonally handled all the material
apyinig activities ... until they [that Burgess supplied.
were almost ready for their! “I received brief cases full of
flight to Moscow." Foreign Office documents. They
Questioned about the article,;were photographed at the em-
@ Foreign Office spokesman con-(bassy and quickly returned to
ceded that the two were under/Burgess. The photographs were
invcetization before they skipped, quickly sent by courler in the
but said, “We had no powers to diplomatic bag to Moscow.”
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