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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26

66 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 19, 1956 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 66 pages OCR'd
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by the FBI of four more Soviet agents in this country shows ‘again that Red espionage is not _ by any means confined to Britain. Two persuns using the aliases ‘of Robert Balch and Joy Ann ‘Balch (subsequently revealed to an _be the names of innocent, loyal ‘eltizens) were arrested. So were Ivan D. Egoriv, a «Russian personnel officer at the United Nations, and his wife* | Aleksandra. The FBI also reported that it had identified as spies two ‘other Soviet U.N. attaches who- had skipped the country in May apparently realizing that their: game was almost up for them. Three-cornered links between Moscow, Britain and the USS. have been uncovered. Swedish Air Force Col. Stig Erik Wennerstrom : | -THE appreiension on July 2. “confessed that. he-had been a Rus-. _sian agent for 15 years, during five of shich se was in Washing- -_-~ton, ( Herbe ert~ Philby (now he-' 4 seo lieved to be a <x fugitive behind the ee - Jron Curtain) recently was identi- fied in London as having-been the Ian who tipped off Burgess and _ McLean just prior to their flight. “All three of these turncoats had . tours of duty in the U. S. with ac- ‘ cess to West defense secrets. THE ubiquity of Soviet espi- onage activity throughout the Western world has been demon- _ strated many times over beyond : ” the least’ shred ‘of doubt. - ; It is, by: now, common knowl- ’ edge that every Soviet embassy iat al a “ is a spy. center and that the : United. Nations is honeycombed i ee with espionage agents. "And as | - f this was being written, news wires carried three more stores which underscoré-the.paint. “ was Bese eet Sek aR a as mein
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