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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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fy BURGESS—From P. IF. | MRP a aE
, Rendesvous With Red_.——
a bis intimde Friend, to “watch, “Bonald Maclean was in Lon
your step. Philby ‘evidently| don serving in the Foreign Ne ee snappy
g-3 scandalous sex. behavior andi first secretary in the Washing-
drinking. ton Embassy from 1844 to 1948,
z tion also must bé suspected, He
But to Burgess, it was bint| well before Burgess’ - arrival
aen Aa hare or
;warnea MacLean, set-up the
enough that Red spy game] there.
7 . tach 4...
yy Was up. Then he and MacLean| They knew each other only
y MacLean was indeed under
4 slipped away. 0 7 ** - iby reputation, and neither! spi .
and roe . ‘suspicion, slong ‘with. three
ve ae? knew then — that the other ‘
: 3 Lived With Burgess was In the Kremlin's service | thers he was, however, allowed
gq Philby, who holds the cov-/ When Burgess got Philby’sid pence c’, Ms normal routine
FP] ced Order of the British Em-| message, he immediately went gence arenes ld lead intelli
ma pire, had been very close tolto @ secret rendezvous with the MacLean’ Spies,
Burgess in Washington. Bur-| Soviet agent who served ag his h at. oan § country home
| sess lived with Philby in his contact man. This Russian spy|™ he he lived with his Ameri.
rented house there. “was also MacLean’s go-between|Ca"-Dorn wile, Melinda, and
. their two sons, was nat gha-
The two often entertaing! with the ring. F| :
, owed for fear he would notice
lan MacLean, Donalds urgess evidently told the and realize he wag suspected.
ounger brother, “when Fpssian he was suspected and : . N
isited the Capital The young- t¥at the game was up. He hath policy paid off—except
t MacLean also: was in. the demanded that. the Soviets line/f24 @ quarry escaped,
“qj Toreign Service and then was Up an escape route to a Red|f Maclean was spotted hand-
“ai Private secretary to Sir Giad.j ssylum for him. PUNE:
--wyn Jebb, British Ambassadorleci 203" <b - ~
H{ to the United Nations at thepasr- fegemie ee eas a
pas. over @ brief case full of
wgdocuments to a Soviet agent
in St. Martins Lane, London:
These+papers were photo.
“Aj etaphed and returned tp Mag
q 4 Lean, eo, . 2,
ge: Burgess’ conduct in Washing-*-.
4 ton was notorious. A. known
4 homosexual, he drank to ex ute OE 4 Story of Flight. ve
"],, ces. He was stopped threaboieer> \warne :
4 tintes in one day for speeding. | oe - wrees died "Using ts 2
a ee +4: : yourself auto and called at Mac:
wy .. Jibes at British. Comraonwealth ; 4 * |Lean’s luxurious h far hi
ft. policies shocked his colleagues] “~ = -. on, colfe NN mS Home for his
“hy oe Weeks before his disappear- ot their familie éven members}
tance, Burgess Was bluntly or- ee ne leavin eee told they
rdered home and told to resign, a ; wr sight h ;
E. Knowing Burgess’ habits, Bo ey abandoned the auto on
~a@ Southampton deck and tack
Aferossthannel ship ta St,.
*
mea a We |
Philby was not surprised when
& his superiors instructed him to
femake a list, of the disgraced
a Mylo, France. All they carried!
* diplomat’s close friends and.zs- wiih them—twe small suitcases
sociates. a is irs oS ~. Shey leit on the steamer,!
He assumed the Foreign Off ° oo a, tbe Falaise” et:
‘| fice was piling up evidence of * ; Once in France, they gave
his friend’s homosexual actiy-( the railread station a wide
: iUes to bolster the demand for | : berth, fearing it would be
po. no ‘watched by British agents. It
. ; os was, rr. rnc!
, Uistead, they’ hired’ a “taxi
.t0 take them-te Rennes. They
‘paid off the driver and evident.
fy caught an express to Paris
. What Philby did not know
was that, in mid-April, 1951, the.
{ Secret Service launched an all-
|}, out investigation of a spy ring
Lin the Foreign Office and sus-
P bis resignation.
a
, picion pointed to Burgess and ae . $-dn-PariS thé trail went cold.
2 NThe. white pgpery-tasidentat ig, Was assilimed they reported]
ce e w ite Pr ery he ental ; oO ‘to the Soviet Embassy there
: iy adm: tt a 5 pro oe, ‘ os to be flown secretly to Russia.
2. Was was sta two years after 0 oF Vladimir Petrov, a Russian!
j authorities RS tip from a of ‘spy who went over to the Wast
3 “3 uesian “a0 aOnGon orelen ao ou dn Australis, said a talkative
{ Dinbassy a these Fore gn - a het teen indicated to him
1. } Philby, who suffered’ a head : : Rin jan ot ew BY Czech or.
( | Russian plane.to- Prague, then:
; pound in 1928 while covering: _ < . > tte Mostow. ste ee ins
;. bthe Spanish Civil War for af °° 8 t. " ) £? Petrov also’ said’ they were
- -_London’ newspaper,’ could not] «> a «luxuriously: housed tn? the
[> Gwarn Burgess himselfmweae {006 oS. 4 42°, [Russian “capital ¥ where $4
'. But he could—and apparent: cae UE ef UMASTARcapital,® where 5 their,
_ Hy did—tell- Alan MacLean tot" 0” oe fot "every “seg ane might
“st get eysage to his friend , gle fnew: ats ney, Might
Hhrough Alan's brother Yo 9 ON, seine sf aie
believed that Burgess’ su Office as chief of its American}! The goDetween realized that!
perlors were upset by his; section. He had been acting! MacLean's role in the opera-}
flight and put the two in SOR
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