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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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' bald J Anftriems is cooperating authorities wore when deal: were mounting and his ered- P . ing wit elinds aclean, iters became restless he wih British security authori ithe wife of defector Donald would suddenly announce es. _ jMaciean who confounded that he would soon be in the They, in turn, are giving -them and her trends by fol- chips. When the money ar- her protection and although Howing her husband to the rived he paid the barman she is said to be in Britain ;Soviety Union. ; and other creditors for a row, her whereabouts are ,,)mmediately after Philby’s party, which would continue . disappearance, friends of tis afterwards, or until Philby secre wife In Beirut suggested that passed She is, of course, free to ve ; pa out. enter or leave the country as she was “very worried about : United States security of- . money.” But a short time lat- /sisers in Beirut are under- she. wishes. ‘ - Mrs. Philby is, in fact, be. .°T Mrs. Philby left for Eu. stood to have suggested, some . i hildren, a ° ing treated with the same kid TSP® with her two ¢ +4 two months ago, that they | Ne oe te i ‘ trip that must have cost be-. had evid s had evidence that,Philby was | ees at Britis ‘Y tween $1500 and $2000. "behind the Iron Carame ‘s Philby had no money ex-* ry cept his earnings as a for- eign correspondent which are assumed to have ended. He may not be as useful to the Soviet Union as Maclean was when he disappeared. But surely any man who has worked in a British counter- espionage organizatioh must . have some value. There is little need to 1 stress the similarity between , the Maclean and Philby cases. | Both men are from similar « backgrounds, the same age, iCommuniste In thelr youth and Soviet agents while they ‘worked for the British For- eign Service. . . Further, they were attrac- |: tive to women, had American wives, but indulged in emo- F tional relationships with oth- jer men, and both were drunk- ‘ards. ‘ Philby used the once lux- urious Normandy Hote] in- Beirut as his office and gen- eral meeting place. He had much of his maik.addressed thére—aire! when “His aebts + “om”! aes net . ‘ af a Se they ag a wy wet” : . tt Me rt paybee ee ie toda “ek a’ Y a nate te ee fatty oy fp
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