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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14

85 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 85 pages OCR'd
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aly: mi" Rphek , 66; hero of two world wars, and now a) ATO land commander. in’ Europe. . ‘Others inchided. Defense’ Minister Gen. Pierre Koenig! ind Gen. Jean, Lecomte, ; Ee “Koenig's chief ot staff, coe Esl dast : August, they . “assigned? - Gen © Raymond |. Duval, then . mili- tary ¢ mmander of | Morocco, ° to! “get” “the Siewly appointed résident-general. Gilbert Grandval, a civilian and avowed advocate of compromise. Duval was - killed in a plane crash in’ Moroceo fast August. But he already had done much ‘ta obstruct the government's reforms, Stulnge Theht: and Gen. Boyer de Latour, a career mili- tary man, installed in his place, the gen- erals turned to another key element in Fuure’s program-the departure of the wntnationalist, Sultan, Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa and substitution of a re- geney council, Gen, Pierre de Benouville. at right-wing deputy, was dispatched to -, Rabat to urge the Sultan to sit tight. ‘Benouville was followed by former Air _ Minister Pierre Montel, chainnan of the With Grandyal out. “grades parliamentary defense committee. He — flew to Morocco ostensibly to inspect the military situation, but quickly turned to ~~ Last « * week, Faure ordered cance lation of his” military transportation’. | | The generals turned next to the pro: politicking in support of ben Arafa. “posed regency council, Negotiations had “and last regent. Faure proposed: Gen. Si -Kettani_ ben ‘Hammon, ‘only Moroccan | a ~ general in the French Amy, now serving’ “* in’ Germany. He literally begged him_ to’ “take ‘the job, But the Premier had over- turned down the post... "The generals’ _Pisgest. coup. camé last so" “The case of the missing iphone was "as The a fh sing ois was 7 wn The TI case case wis fo Americans. Last | onald “week, Tour years our years of doubt about - Maclean and Guy Burgess exp! woe Jooked one important - ~factor:. Kettani’s ' 2° top’ superior is “Marshal Juin. Kettani, ta ~-eried: s Non!, What t fol Kuropean Juin: Morocco for Frenchmen ‘ ‘Wednesday in. Paris, After three days of . . “consultation with the Cabinet (and Juin), | Moreceo ‘hot with new: instructions but: “swith authority to make his own ‘decisions. - De Latour so far has shown no desire to’ ‘buck. the die-hard. generals, in fact, has ‘urged Faure to‘ go. slow’ on: reforms. “;. As the Moroccan morass deepened, ~ vy iresh disorders swept both Morocco and * Algeria. The Paris newspaper Le Figaro. “What absurdity! What aberta- _ burst, of public ind fad ignation, that_forced -- thes Saeed ener eames oviet spies. “Voth i im 7" were government cnt to break its long silence - "With a 1 eight-page. White Paper, For ” the hr tn time atfcial London “conceded But ihe White Paper's attempts to jus- © tify the handling of the case raised fresh * doubts and_ fears. It suggested, for ex- - ample, that Maclean and Burgess ‘fled because Maclean liad been tipped off he was under suspicion. But it dodged the ‘question_of whether a “third man” was still at_work in the Foreign Off Office. _.. “An insult to any reasonable man’s ine ; _ telligence,” said Lord Beaverbrook’s Lon- . at. Beta te nan site Sie te * Black Mtar Eden: Why the uproar? _ ~ Resident-Ceneral de Latour returned to | “deadlocked ‘over. selection “ofthe third an _ errors of judgment of some Gusher = From Haute sinqitt, ‘a low. barren hi barely 6 miles from the Eyy ptian-he Gaza strip. a black gusher shot 40 fe into the shy. [Israel had) struck oil, ‘The well, brought in fast week by t Lapidot-[sract Petrolenm Ca, Ltd. ¢ per cent) Americnvowned), lad bed ‘started by the Britisheowned Iraq PB tralemn Coe. and abandoned when t Arab-[sracli war broke out in 1947. Of -men believed they had fotnd a maj field, For tsracl, the discovery held tl promise of casing a yearly burden of $ million in petroleum jnyports, and of gd ting the huge Haifa refinery, now cri pled by the Arab boycutt, back to f production. [t also made the Israc more adamant (han ever against any be der revisions as the price of a peace s tlement with their Arab neighbors. ‘ FRANCE: Strike Fever _ “IE we succeed in maintaining t present rhythm of progression, the star ‘ard of living will double in ten yea Premier Edgar Faure told France | _ week. It should have been a boast; é stead, it was an appeal. Even as. « spoke,* Faure's goal of. “expansion : tgtability”. was threatened by nation “demands for more’ wage hikes that & : bring only more inflation. os Already 200,000 Frenchmen were “full. or part-time strike, mostly shipy ‘construction, and metal. workers, “a ‘mostly’. members‘ of the Communi _controlled General Conféderation of * bor. In Nantes, strikers and police stag oo Vy * Bowe se we. don Daily Express of the White: ‘Pap De “explanation of how Maclean and Burge _had been allowed to rise to sensitive fp ~ sitions—and then escape. Prime Minist _Sir_Anthony Eden, who had n Fa "eign, Secretary, ‘through 43 months: “silence about the scandal, braced for ~ fulleseale: debate after Parffamen “convenes In October. . Newsween’s’ Edward Weintal, lo personally acquainted with the Mactea fends this hac ground: The Foreign Office never chad ay oubt Maclean was spying. to conceal the true reason for ina fe mer <lBappesraics Because of (1) a un _ten law in Britain's services which p “tects those who belong and_(2); rtd side Se Rip le ate a RA ee i
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