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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8

101 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 99 pages OCR'd
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HOSE who become obsesse with a puzzle are no vjere rey Ukely to solve {t. b C s Lre ll is one about which I have - * srooded lor u year and would . y : yr v onno 1y ; 3 ike to unburden myself. Some- r hing of what I have put down a ee ot ht might of DO As one of the inany who Weer nay cause pain; but that Ivor of a private and psychological oust risk. ovcause where pature AO when two boys run away seople are concerned the truth ‘rom 2 PI ; Fhe compelled exit, the forced int. Le ick an never be ascertained with- move, 1 ferent standpoint, Let us put aside vut painful things being cald, move; LP oa oe Srivate the facts Ot er the. knw Salis ‘ha because I feel that what I blackmail or ‘OF public exposure: | involved. In so far as ‘one indi- vut down may lead to some- or again it mig a result of vidual can ever understand jody remembering the fact oF whi ; another, we may fin that we have ‘nrase. which will suddenly wich regarded One on oe ras grounds Ye eand 39 some or down ring it all into focus. having become too dangerous. fhe value of X. as we shall name TE aig not bebieve oy stint nat ey Pereira a pening | the Taser, cespargie fae We an y scher than, reason) Ue cong wo See tS are sent aerate that | One SNAP nee z rite may well have been victims ot ter anped. jured abroad and then Lo olin é Back to am st calamity. e . wee ‘ ‘There are simply not enough : waite would nol extet and I should tacts to, exclude ny of these |” Childhood Wwe NOTHIN LO SA egrets, | explanations, oF Savion even pre- hs o¢ _ fexplanatcy pe obenaviour of both | TWO, farts distinguish Bureess ive not talked to many of the ) Maclean and Burnes is covered DY find Maciean from the so-called 1 ple 1 should like to, I offer no aM 4 5 the same explanation. ‘The most “ atomic” spies—first. they ae pauon, only 6 few subgempiesity | Stnking CEPMAUR agenness of ROL known UO, Hie committed eeaeads to murky by) meu | thelr ‘disnppearance—suceests | & ) ANY crime, second, they are Sh. T hope, will y, bypaths bop | Panic, but even, MGs suddenness | members of the governing class, of se has any right to jum to Pould have been counterfeited. ‘The | the high bureaucracy, the “they” Se hs any _rient to Jump, 22 | spontaneous, tngroUe ieate ae | te lle 38 ana Bontecorve e search wonld seem to indicate that ul is a oa cahey enow nothing. | f8'poreign OMmee Arse accented the | Bik es Whe figures like Nunn Mav . theory of kidnapping. and so would Seong. If traitors thee be. then A Matter of Choice | tend. to aeeae the notion of a | they ‘aré traitors to themselves. . secret mission (unless self-imposed), ) But. as in ‘al!’ cases where people or Necessity secret mis preneh police official | Sec 3? fact against their own has maintained that tt would have politica! angnosa. we must 80 HI " een impossible for, e two visitors ek a child? 7 (AE deer ast sonards im | to impos Ple dig the dragnet | | Politics begin in the nursery: no need eed Bbnald: Mack Guy | spread for them withow! LAIR pro | one is born patriotic ot unpatriotic, ery which cannot el a | tection” of ‘a political organisation. fight-wing or left-wing. and eso” mul. fact solv Tiere are. however. countries Tike child’ whose craving for love Ka0WN, ane eel remain here it might be possible for two {D° Unsatisfied, whose desire for vanation can be. bi eens any « Sylcbodied men to obtain work and power is thwarted, or whose innate Halance of ap obabilities. only on | Suill escape notice. put ‘hey are Bot sense, of justice os warped. oat t ¢ so easily reached frot station vi iy We uch solutions fall into two cate- | ay Sones, io shed from ence uney exemutionary of & dictator. In . ies, according as they presup- Nand we attach spiritual val Pies, eee a Mearance tO. be anished on May 26, 1951. ngland we attach spirltua’ vali ‘ y ‘ Erie to childhood | and ter of choice. or of necessity. mast a!S0 cone the possibility | Egnlescence, sing. political ‘ actions of f ive nature as youthful es ‘But in fact such behaviour young is the Sund often Tevealing i o the is i presses the rue meaning 0! le e Sunday Times pressonship, with the father in London, Sept. 21; 1952 20° its most critical phase. |” Guy Burgess lost, his father atan val . carly” age. and his, mother | (10 whom he is devoted) remarried, Re: Uonalgi Duart MacLean, x is the child of di ished Liberal | parents: Espi - guis 7 et a Espionage - R futher, who was then President fatne Board of Education, died “ e was nineteen. ‘Burg! was porn in fott ovsioe 6 fx Trai MTTACHE . ER IASC a AUSRICAD Tov NOP RECORDED 7 DON. FIGLASD ; INDEXED - 125 " + oc Peer ave
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