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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 23

49 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 49 pages OCR'd
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nail f. let, Cn i: By @ Guy BurGEss IN A FRANK "DISCUSSION. WH oF * TOM-DRIBERG REVEALS ‘THAT. “MACLEAN. cao | aby : AL ; CONFESSED”! AM BEING FOLLOWED.” MACLEAN as ,bassy there, oat Pic “TELLS BURGESS HE 1s‘ GOING 10, Moscow.” '- ‘We counted . °* "BURGESS. DECIDES .T0 Go.; TOO. Fy" ete ‘| i “| i i: ve “ caer? is on the week- end URGES :} : NOTHING except ‘the: ‘boat’ had 'B e been’ worked: out. beforehand by: Vs 4180, by tht midnight . Berne before our ab--' - Sence from the boat would have - ' been ‘spotted. [*. | the boat was held up for one hour at St, Malo on the Saturday morning while a search wa Fen ee leetin Tho, he , Was mads for to missing pas- 2nen né ou a a "French ‘yailwayt ‘time-: 4 sengers.... without whom the i table on the boa He Spotted Rennes a as the es eventually sailed | | “£3 Wain we arrived in} ® anybody, but Donald had suggested ‘that we {| ought to make for ae because there was a. if Trade Fair. on, which -v 2 pee visas.” ae “This assured that the ca as Junction for’ Paris, 7 a ‘tain would report thelr fallure ARARS aa re joy k tie. aD on Ais. . arrival bac mpton on. That taxi-drive | [Monday momuinee een oa “Pot g enn ~ | | that time they would be gone {be ond recall” (Geoffrey He 8, he Missing Macleans”) } ‘dat thought that Part a‘ /. a ‘ELL, we "arrived: at ‘sh. Malo, and walked ifce | _ be fhe a ince they'd be ‘mm t Pd YY Simenon ‘characters across the ‘ratny-quay—i | to look for us first. tat ia and found that we'd Just missed the train | | th aio course, count on on a to. Rennes heh about two minutes. The only thing was‘! knew that nobody wo pi art Rennes, “) 00135 hte oA Pret ons mks eg id | Some time on Monday.. ws 1g “1 see that the taxl-driver has’ been discredited” by: nae fen # reckoned: rea the French police, but he told the absolute truth: :‘Two%' | Zurich to Prague. Donald 4 : f, Englishmen fust jumped Into ‘his taxi’ and told pim’ to?! : thought they-went every day, : Oh, and that man on the boat who said he” saw us, and ae Uhl bas ‘ ars ia ere to Rennes. oy") oe LE Sy F Bn alten’ He was easy\ yaw someone meet, us—pure ‘maginatlon, #,0r,"else, three, i + different people. ty"5: Mags, SR 1) We just beat the Jocal train. We caught ‘the’ expresa lin tn Parte fram Dannas’ When we got there we bought a es ONALD,* ” pein “the: ee Mn tee ee seca, 7 . ¢ Guide internationgie, or whatever you call it, and fumbled 4 | fenlor oe oa of athrough ity I fo a train about midnight to Berne. , ; es i the ao ‘We ght tickets ta Berne | in fhe normal Fry, f0t ed. | ; gual was eal Re Second Y ' sleepers, ner a es. € and arriy & , In Berne’ gbout six o'clock on Sunday moraine poe atl Embassy ne Berne and got our t -Then Petrov's statement that you flew from 7 4 Perfectiy easy: with’ the | ‘Trade Fair on they were siving 4 Vises to everybody. : have an ides oe may ve called a wi o ERG ¢ 2 RIB 4 Paris to Prague is wrong,’ and ‘the statement’ ; fh tat it ‘we virtually certain” that you went. ftom Orly | Air: P -; port in a Czech plane is wrong? eee fy ' URGESS :°: r Absolute nonsense, like'most of the ‘atu P ted” . about. ug,” Hg Tae, SMa ee She DRIBERG 3 gWoy did you go via Berr Bere Deca he
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