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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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ey ve ee oT ‘bargess Tipster Worked Here cose: ang dys Third Maw’ in Spy ( Case” To B amed i in Commons Tenet Lishen g * s90t we 08 3, some Sradiegig i Bete eNAT “ LONDON, Oct.. 22 -The mysterious “thir an,” whose seerepraraing enabled Soviet spies Donald MacLean and Guy. surges to escape 2 counterintelligence Wet Sad’ doc ts behini ron: - Curtain, will ‘be.named in Parliament after it meets Tuesday ————ao» Norman Dodds, a Labor thember; today demanded that Foreign Minister Harold Mar- millan unmask the tipster. “If mecessary,” Dodds’, de clared,, “To will stand. and aim in: the 8 House 16 Of Gonimong. & and , mame Identity of this mysterious “Mr. X" has thus far been 2 ; hidden by the Foreign Office. we Tipster ‘Served Here’) wea tt ee The New York News ¢ was in- formed today, .howaver, that tha man Dodds will denounce 7a js Herold A. BR. Philby, 38. ren . Philby was made First See ras retary of the British Embassy in Washington in. October, 1949, when, he.was only 32 and had been in the British Foreign Service a mere two years, His rapid rise to such an important post ig “best explained by bis ; real job.-r . j ‘Philby was, in ‘fact, an “Sn. telligeace agent working for the hush-hush MI-6, a branch of the British Secret Service, His Embassy assignment was only a cover. for his. _Apying/ activities, ~ + i Pen ee Although the Foreign’ Office} ja dead aure Philby triggered jthe May >, 195i, flight of Bur- Bess and MacLean, punishment was being fired. . : Believed Unwilting Dupe ~ ‘One reason he was sacked): without fanfare is that detec-|/ tives beleve he was the Rus-|: “oo . glan spies’ unwitting dupe, that/: he did not even know they}: were traitors. m . “In a white paper on the case,| L the Foreign “Office admitted). that MacLean “might haved: been warned.” This official re-| a > ‘port issued last month said < |*searching inquirles inyolving|' individual Interrogations werel: BR , made inte'this possibilty.” i But, it added, there was not enough: Pyidence, 3 for’ Prone cue ition, * 4 \ \} Highly ‘classified Secret Serv- dea reports said, however, that by got the word to Burgess, Se amet? ir Bi © > DEC a. MEE pene | 4 SN inter ene a rere _ Bis only cre Vdd 4958 : PED FOUR 8 ¥ is i. 53°| ‘ -* Mr. Tolson nel Mr. Boardman Mr, Nichols r, Belmont .__.__.. Mr. Harbo ~ Mr. Mohr — Mr, Parsons . Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr. Holloman ——— HH Mise Gandy : ftw a Wash. Post and | Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Ster _. N. Y. Herald Tribune N. ¥. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader _ ae Dew . cesey Re ee wed,
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