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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 10
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exse are under invesligetion been. taken in ‘emotion pnd}
and it je not in the poublie awony. She most have fived in}
fnierest. io diseluse them." the botfomless pit of hel in phe
: That waa three years age, ated weeks, possibly months, hegre
j With practically no variation it she finally Sed to join ber mah.
* i Has Geen the line taken by She must have Known ibe sor
Thesé are not steps & man Foreign Office apokesmen aver TOW ‘and worry her going would
tages Lightly acd His clear that : ince: eause her mothers ibe pitifal,
fof many months before, th Bucwith Melinds we enter {he thin lithe letier rhe was 8 lewed}
~ figs! decision Donald Maclvar. pealm of ‘pure gmotion in whee te send showed that. f
idea ead ‘Gebtg behind him: ihe money; soptays Wath %, tse Hine efast
ed-in guck “fyi nq @ ieee reason plays Uitie: par — But against the Hngering ashes
W i "i guck.« tervitying 35 was went by Swiss Banks © “when she drove of fram ot her love for Donald, ageinst|
indecigion and gullt that bid. August Iran Interval of 67 dayn: ai th man : t
héalth was. affected tram which should be deducted Geneve with her three small the Sparking Pee ray fe ts
He was of the i-starredi hh ti oe eae Donald to get children on that sultry Sepierss which she was being drawn, none
ventrations whe grew to oes | th Maod it we one te i her afternoon exactly a year age Gf shig mattered, He had called
t rh naturiiy fspm Tatefield te wherever AC she was, knowingly and of her her back i him-~and-so. she went}
}
atween the two world wars, and oo wat, and also ihe fime ik look 3
; i wn free Wit, going inte exile, She was. 3 4 way, Juatitying her-
whose impressionable years were for ihe arrangements to be made ® borne self to Tike woridcaned tS herself.
ficed “beneath the appalling to send a meskenger te Swilzer- ‘ ’ She was mo longer deserted. no
shadow of Fascism. ; land te diapateh the money. Pers waded longer unwanted: that was 3]
. Neither need be jong. but oa Ss ese gaive to cher-turt pride * awd a!
was going to jain # hys- Rratifization af ber love and ber!
git acaneeivabie conditions, band whe has qesertat hero WHR Wor ; :
; eerste might have enmed that worm she bas bers nearly Eon. Melnds ane they owe rere
In. hig latter years at Cam= cum in addiien to whatewer it dimususly unhappy in, thee ive trom f eter d ery
bridge, in. coinpany with. Many cost Bim te tive. te around thisteen sears of married fe, anda believe from reliable informe}
hundreds of other Uberai-minded gays. Was that possitie? Ie it she was doing. this although she tian T have obtained, ett Lu
young intellectuals, he became 8’ gaycinte? “Obviously not ib “Lad Seeided to divorce. him and British sources, that Donal Ast
Tomumuniah, because Carmmunisin aasibie? ObWiousy Bot try. ig remake ber shattered bite, gone of the chiate af the Soviet:
together they probably cut che Sh
aciiak ime in whieh, fa ‘seme
WE BY HON TUS id - There remain ywopassibiiifess inl she was going: in ihe fuli | Government's Payshological. War-
Fascia ve defeat “iter bs firsily, that be war paid. io ads jencwlede ak die grievous. bart f fare Department. de is Hving i}
rallied ta Stalin, _wanee for services te be jer action Would cause Mer fa gart of satellite ciiy some} 60)
rendered: secondly, thay he was mother, her family and her miles from Mascow whith wast
_ being paid for. past. services friends, built selely fo heuse the ma
‘ .
Which fe the more Lely 7 Why did sha go? various igners working for)
kL suggest the Russian Intell
fenee Sarwice Rept a cloge wat
on the careers of many ef the
: i : ; intl tou i was the Rossian Government in this,
fdmer university Communists. e combination af these twa Obviously Melinda was. on the 3 :
a the middie ottie the Saw . |) tacfomthat Danalel dexerted 10 tacied by agents speaking. in particular field. \
Upion. was concerned anove Me i -Rubsia and that aa remarkably Donai@’s name tar several
wh stoic cerned Reore e | Saget Sime was ip a position net menths pefore she eventually G ee a 3
Biot joist be termed A bul | oni: to send Melinds a large sum went They were probably men . eek eRe S
praduet of Gur. possession of th af maney, but also ta-obtaid per and waned ot her own class and re pe cittay, aroma a |
: tat gur possession Of Ue | hingian and assintance from hie eliter of ber ar Donald's, nation-
aiomic bamb, our atemia policy,
was # high periarity, And thot
made members of tre diplomule
service Valuable te the Russians
and likely fo be apprauched. if
there was just a hait Liat they
were approachable, ;
pew masiers to dg sospointe in RNG it tg & grass between a dom~).
pne& direstion, and one qnhvs that Aad ier were supremely foxune anda prison ¢ the innate: :
Donalg wes appraached & clever, They prpoably leld her aye excelent living canditigns,:
Russian agents and did work far, Donald was »Aghuing for peace J4rée, comfortable igri ORG)
them. probably long before be --helging to build @ nes and gardens. Shans, Cues, schools |
fled, © Beiter warid.’ They certainty iat ne treedom of movement;
‘played on her matersa), instinels There are guards all around.
Was Danii. Maclean 30 ap! % . : ave fer Inwing pitkure ostensibly te protect, the geeat
proathed? IF do nos think ans- & xpl oifed ae EN pienaid, eee her chiid: tadie inansmitters. but also te see.
one knows. it seems impossible 4 cana ren would have in the Soviet that nea one leaves without fer-:
fram tne apgeintments he held L a a worry Union, _ mission. Ch te rare oecasigns
before his Wight that the guthe- Doesid was pitifully vulnery — Donald's excelient pasition, his #7 of the foreigders have W gC
rites had any suspicions of him. shige, fle must have appeared a8 Ane hase, comfortable living jo Moscow or Bisewhexe if
But there are twa inescapable ideal man te be @pprozched by conditions, would be giressed. Russia armed guards sccompany
facts, ‘dhe rathless agents of a country None of ibis would fave taken her. oo,
The rst le that he did dia- ready io iyke advantage of apy jn a wainen wha ‘had kept her- it ie there, dn ils fown with
appear and official opinion isthet «Auman weakness OF Sny miss acit wellisiarmed ap world no name, inst Melinda and the
he is behind the dran Curtain, placed idestism. affairs: but Metinda had been children joined Thimald, ‘She, wae
Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of how much do the British autha- supremely disinierested., almost ceriainiy told that yf she
State for Fovgign Affaics, sald fn: rities really know of the dis- Yet beneaih ail this there must did not Uke tre life therp she
reply io a Qpestion on January: ayyearance of these two ment have been somp kind of flection would be free.to leave, takige Her
28. 1954, thank if anyone were to, Top his statement to the House of far Donald “Gre whole ihing ts children with her, Will ths Rabel
presume thag Maciera and Bar~ Canmans on dune. b ESsl. meaningless, impossible, un: keep that promise? it Beesis
ress are behiad ihe iron Custain.| acfenteen days alter Burdess asd believable wifiout that | Fer bighly unlikely.
. would probably be right” , Mpelesn disappeared, Me. Werbert Melinda Was daot Jogica!; she THE END
The second is the £2.09 Rigrrigon, said ¢ wis, guided bp cher ermotions<~ ~“
Taald sent to Methnds ihrovgh “The security aspects af the amd this final decision must have Pwartd esowright]
Mix, Dunbar, Donald. left Wa, o----- ee eee Oe eee tenanmanamnns se naga SaaS an gS mn ES
Heine af Tataleld on May 24. gs!
hal up ae ever. and leavirg.
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