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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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vs = [Spy Case Mr. *X” 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 eran ree a en tcarnncen rar omes | 4 Aeon a et “3 23 ee
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