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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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a a we ee 0-19 (Rev. i 11-60) deferttd to Russia nine years Ago, appeared unexpectedly at & Western’ party in Moscow Wednesday night and sald he would Jike to go back to Britain for a holiday visitbut “only | T wid hea as iong BS a COUId Be cer {ain I could get back to the Soviet Union. cn * Burgess, who with, ‘Donald MacLean sneaked off from the British Foreign Office in 1951 and defected to the Soviet Union, appesred~ somewha nervous “when he was sure, rounded by Western journalists, “Are you happy after 10. years?” he was asked. = - i “YT am. more happy after 19 years than I was after fve years,” he replied qalekly but somewhat defensively. « “Not = ‘Soviet Cittzen’ ; He also said: | “r haye.2 not taken Soviet citizenship. I am British subject but I can't aépeak for MacLean.” -: > Burgess said he had not had any contact with Bernon Mitchel or William Martin, the two American code clerks wha left the United’ States in July and are now in the Soviet Union, where they have ‘been ‘granted Soviet citizenship. -But again he added+ ="T can't speak for MacLean.” Burgess asserted | several times he would not go back to’ Britain as long.as the cold war’ is on, Questloged on the cause: of the cold: Gar,” “7 Petored,: fe the AmeSicans.” 5y OCI : “British Defector, ays: ‘He Wants to Visi t Home’ homeland. “eis of Wwanoelatio agecle le ’ books Sealing with po Tittcat ma “Vaatters: ve a | 3 ‘He alec’ commented, here is better than it was, and ite getting better.” A journalist polnted out yed|would not- let. chim, visit . _ his.|Burgess had arrived during the Stalin regime, and. then asked “They are more afraid of my /whether Burgess had found going back than I am,’ ignt. He was after peace.” He’ declined. to talk’ about|make world headlines aga a ‘ts work, which ih reportedly con-|he said as he left. : _ cate: ao nae eccemn tee ae "he said.|any errors under Stalin. “Just think of the pressure the Americans would put on.” ~+. | “Khrushchey Was Right” " Jn a discussion of the recent “Everybody found’ errors. “Have you found any errors under Khrushchev?" he was asked. He did not answer, de -, “Oh God, T suppose this itl ee be ee mee “ped ap RE ayGek © ve Faia ne . 26 1900 [129-3762 NOT AFCORDED M5 OC) 25 1960 under Stalin,” he replied. ~° | Burgess came to rty ‘eclared, “in. six months time uninvited with » British rahe Ou will agree Khrushchev was) natist, : 4 Date OC Malone MeGuire Rogen Tamm Trotter WoC. Sullivan Tele. Room Ingram Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington oo The Evening §ia New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirrar New York Daily News New York Poat. The New York Times The Worker Tha New Leader The Wall Street Jourmal CT 20 1960
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