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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 31

121 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 25, 1950 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 113 pages OCR'd
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Legat, London — see pirectosEeay iim ~ 7 ‘an HAROLD ADRIAN RUSSELL PHILBY ESPIONAGE = RUSSIA Reurlet 4/18/66, one copy each of which is So for New York and Washington Field Offices, The Bureau does not agree with your suggestion that the review of Bureau files and the files of the New York and Washington Field Offices should be expanded to include the names of 85 Americans who attended Cambridge University during the years 1930 through 1934. These are the years during which the subject, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess attended that echool, As you were toald this list is incomplete and covers only t period and yet it impinr Hy} If file reviews and inquiries are directed to all Américans who attended those two schools during that period it will mean investigation of over 500 American citizens with no basis for such inquiry in fact. <—_£ As an example of the above, the Bureau has located a book entitled "Register of Rhodes Scholars 1903-1945" published by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 41350, This book ghows that from 1930 ~ 1939 there were 32 Rhodes scholarships per year awarded to U. §&. citizens making a total of 320 individuals who attended Oxford during that 10-year period, Thus, from this source and the incomplete records we have of Americans attending Cambridge from 1930 to 1934 we have a total of 405 names,
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