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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7

54 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 54 pages OCR'd
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é London,’ June } [ the names of the missing men} : 1. Security agents also investigated the possibility seign Office aides may have been, ured to Paris and kidnaped, a4 *_@ Travelled from Southampton] ” Ewas growing that they are being} England, to St. Malo, France, F held somewhere: in}-steamship on round-trip tickets Mai France against their will | 25 with the announced intention of - However, the motive! returning -toEngland three days behind the disappearance! jater. - vy +. - forcible or ypluntary—| * @ ‘Unaccountably’ left their, suit-_ - of Donald Di MagLean,| cases aboard the ship on their ar- . 38, head of the American} rival in France next: morning, but. department of the Brit-} took their briefcases with them. = Who's the ish Eoreign ‘Office, and} # Taxied to Rennes and boarded i Sd Mant? Guy “Burgess, 40, a Far} a train for Paris. - i : + Stern expert formerly} There the trail vanished except, | assigned to the Washington’ Em-| for three telegrams received by pbassy, remained a mystery. i their families on Thursday. The One of three telegrams ostensi- { ; =originals of the telegrams were ibly sent by the two missing diplo-|: found‘to be in the handwriting of) ‘mats to their families in England|.a third mans "= 70°F) came from Rome, a foreign office + spokesman said today. . . | “The Rome: telegram, sent in the ;mame of Mr. Burgess, apologized for his .“sllence" and said he was \*embarking “on a long Mediterra- paean holiday.” .| three days. They drove to . ‘The original of the telegram, re-|: ampton from London in a car hired covered in Rome, was not in Bur-.|. by Burgess for three days, and told * Bese! handwriting, the foreign of-} ‘a garage there they would be back . fice spokesman sald, Ui May 28..¢ 0 0 90 he ese t At the same time, a highly-placed/ @ Their decison’ to travel to St. French official ruled that two tele-| Malo on the northern Brittany coast ? grams sent from Paris in the name ‘indicated that their original ‘ desti- , of the other missing diplomat was. ! nation was not ’'Paris, but* some’ not written by an Anglo-Saxon. - other ‘part of France. It-was be- One telegram sent in Mr. Mac->¢ Jieved ‘they might have received Lean’s’ name informed his Amer- ; some message after arriving at St. 'dean-born wife that he “had to leave) {| Malo’ that induced th Zo. , unexpectedly,” The -other, to his paris... yy: rf , said that he “was quite all | &°s-°"* . g ‘right’ and. told her.” 5 Frabout him. a 00 i The theory the two men had been Jured to Pacis and were being. held prisoner gras, based on, these : fac ad They original “ad “shown pin onl every intention 0! i ay nly “JUN 9° 1951 sweet OB” pevereo Oo oT Sot py LETTE. yun 22 1916 PER FOIA KeQUEST. Rees) .? \)0- T7LASA NOT RECORDED 196 OCT 19 1951 Page Times-Herald —_ Wash: Post, a Wash.! News” een dautadl Wash. ‘Star 9 sam" N.Y. Mirror © : “N.Y. Compass___ ;.
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