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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 21

25 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 24, 1962 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 25 pages OCR'd
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says | _ ‘Everyone oo ‘makes a_ mistake’ : oo MOSCOW, Thursday. —: la ‘Runaway diplomat Guy . Burgess gate-crashets- ,Weatern party last night and | sald about fein Russia: ’ “9t comes to everybody to - : feel he has made 9 mistake, — * and you can uote me on. » that.” a _ Burgess, “now 49, “Western correspondents: "Of : / course J would like to go. back - "to Britain, but I won't go back | oe, - lasts.” : * Wearing a single-breasted : se, _London-made grey sult, red: Said: “I’m more happy after 10 -walstcoat and Old Etonlan ; was after ave | But he refused to say what bie bthe, he drank vodka and | champagne and chatted | . almost carelessly, : _After the party he Was |, ‘heard to say: “O God, : Suppose this, will make head- : vlines again.” ‘ - Burgess isa peared from : Britain in ~195] wilh another . Foreign Office man, Tel, , Both later Ded up _in Russia, . -, Ship. I'm British tald correspondents: ve “y ave not taken Soviet. citize Tam a British subject. * ca not speak for Maclean,” te generally unders Maclean : eanged vhs nationality. Burgess said he would ike j i : to return to Britain for a hollday, Lb as Jong as he ares be certain of - urgess Getting back Union. He said a suela had. been issue Government wiich. called him a . Soviet agent, “ which I was not. “I'm @ Socialist, Heap, Pm £8 py wn, we 22 has not the Soviet | White Paper | ' the British: I'm not a> . Communisy” he Said. : cal a % They're 2 afraid’ Burgess added: “ They couldn't - lel mé go back. ‘They are more- Just think of the pressure ‘ the Americans would put on.” + told | BES fraig of my going back than 1. ¢ Burgess insisted that. he was ~ as long as the Cold War not talking for Maclean, whom he said he had not seen for some time: Asked about life in Russia, he . years. than I yeara” was he disliked One corresponde und errors pdn’t you 7” ne T \‘that Burgess came to the Soviet | Union while Stalin was alive and i ked whether he thought ‘ere any errora then. Burgess replied: y . under Sta ca. “\ Jot haa oreviously. nt pointed out % re, - Every 100 -37Y/b9 74 ” 149 OF. 28 Iyb0 Mr. Ingram __. Mr. W.C, Sullivan, Tele. Room_____. SVENING STANDARD London, England October 20, 1960 (for info)
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