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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11

85 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 84 pages OCR'd
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Pao Sétret papers A TAs ‘he Cicero touch © “|-by Maclean | By Daily mai Reporter POW did DonalaMactean H photegraph secret Foreign’ _ Feared capture | | iOffice papers and avold suys- ent 'Dicion ? They apparent ¥ tock no ac | . beekuse they feared capture by Tt is understeod that he to KT British Seclrity seryires. them home to Tatsfeld ahd Tt is therefore assumed that [Photographed them Overnight Be. jaye Maclean, having made full ; en. jfore returning them, atangements with her husband, : os i A tradesman with a shop anly Donald, herself togk the mitiative “2 Tew miles from the Wenernam jin making contact with Russia’s ome of Sir Winston Churebill Secret uetwark in this country, crest Ie me SUSPICIOUS of his in- She appears to have done tis terest in photography, ata time when she May have Maclean had used his darkroom | been watched at her home in to develop. his film. Tatsheid by British security : . olicials, , No details She pergiiaded the authorities en lo allow her t9 iravel to Switzer. The tradesman wrote to Sirjiang in 1952 with her mother, Perdy Sillitoe, then head of the Mrs. Dunbar. and the chidren— Secret Service, - By then the net Fergus. now 11, Donald, nine, ang ‘Was closing in-on Maclean. Special Melinda, four. | pBranch— inquiries. were almost complete, r | But nan for fee ae the Mr K tradesman for fur fy lp. Hel ge, flight across the Iron ure ihad fled to the Continent. ‘ain in September 1959 ic said’ to Last night the tradesman, have beeq Arranged by an MVE whese mame has not been ais agent under . instructions from closed, saiq : 7 foting out a good islytsin, ; ; deal about Maclean. But T must Birgess’ ane Maclean are now Hob give details.” ing | WOTKing As advisers in the Anglo. Maclean’s method of sending Ameriogn Affairs Department of | Photographic copies ig COMDAT ithe Sovier Foreign Ministry, } j2ble with the method of C870. ey are dn excellent. health wartime valet of te British |and live just outside Moscow, ; S™passador to Turkey, Kislrtsit. who met them when | Cicero photographed D-Dhy they flew from Paris to Moscow } landing papers and Sent them 0) via Prague in 195). is. it°ig under. | Bertin. The film “Five Fingerg ” stood, their « Watchdog,” deart with his exploits, . , ° : 1’ He appears to have “anpeointed | several MVD men to help them. with language ‘ana other | 'problems. i Aislytsin, while holding an: VD post in the Soviet Em. hasgy in London, was indigeects. in [contact with Burgess arid Madiean and helped in the + aris. misfion to Moscow of pkoto- Tufn to Page 2, Col! 4
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