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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13

86 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 86 pages OCR'd
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_ Mr. Tolson Mr. Aman ; Eg ji Ki Shar Mr. Belm a all Britain’ S “Third Man’ whem | Mr. Harbo ~ The idehtification, by a me ber ae Mr.. Mohr 2. Parliament, of Harold. Philby as fhe Mr. Parsons “third man” in the Maclean-Burgess spy Mr. Rosen 1 4 case sheds little new tight on this Mr. Tamm aie , ‘forme rl in ch f Ko _ Mr. Sizoo y formerly was in charge «6 security at the British Embassy here.. . Me. Minterrowd His particular job was to see to it that ele. Noom embassy personnel protected the secrecy Mr. Holloman of official documents. ; Miss Gandy —W__ According to London reports, Philby , unwittingly pull the trigger on the, ; ff apy case. Donal aclean, then. head of the American department of the British , : Foreign Office, was under suryeillance as & spy for the Russians. Guy urgess, an’ all-around bad actor, had been recalled to London from his post as second secre-~ tary at the Washington embassy and forced to resign from the diplomatic: ; service. But this was for misconduct. Although evidently a spy, he was not. oh suspect.on that ground. Philby, whe aid Ve j | not know that Maclean was a spy, is sup- Be A ¢ posed to have warned Burgess that his conduct was under scrutiny. Whether Maciean also was warnéd is not known. Bul both men in any event fled from London in 1951, and are believed to be working for the Russians in Moscow. (T8, Philby resigned from the government. {O0-¥ 3 sil service four months after the escape of | rate ae, Maclean and Burgess. — ROT RFi The thing that sticks in the craw in Bou. | isd this business, and which ostensibly touched off the row in Commons which ene nem ements resulted in the naming of Philby, is the ae altitude-of the British government. There is considerable evidence that Brit- Wash. Post and ish counter-intelligence bungled the job Times Herald prior to the escape of Maclean and Bur- Wash. News —_ gess. There is a great deal of evidence. Wash. Star Ze AEA “ that the British government. has tried to N. Y. Herald * . gover up much of the scandal. It is this’ T su: . latter aspect which has provoked most of Tbune _. .° the eriticism in London. « N. Y. Mirror ve Prime Minister Eden now says that Daily Worker the matter will be called up for debate. The Worker ‘in Commons at an éarly date. Since New Leader there is no other way to establish the facts and allay unwarranted suspicions, the sooner this is done the better it noe €66OCT @? Wood will be. Sen cinnall Date _ DELETED COPY SENT 8.8, mae Dow Qh BY LETIER SUN 22 1976. ns PER FOIA’ te5f, Pa
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