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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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i) BRITISH SEE PRANK | AN ‘RED’ RECORDING oreign Office Si . Diplomat, L Mimicking Churchill Made } [ "Platter Ascribedto Another, LONDON, Oct. 20—The. ? yn ABC! Lt “Lean, lp which the former Forel i ficial wae supposed _to) have set Yorth hia political views, \ackually was made by Guy Francia, (aa Money. Bi urgess. another Brit-| ish diplomat, who disappeared with| Mr. MacLean, the Foreign Ottice? . | tgclonsd today. 6 Foreign Office spokeaman idismissed the matter as of Ute limportance, saving that the re- cording Lord Elton said had been made in the home of a friend of ‘4 member of the House of Lords in the United States, a, Drankish mood, on. a_night in} fay 1951 before Mr. Burgess_lef' ‘ington. A_good mimic, Mr | Burgess cave 29 good an imitation) {ot_Prime_ Minister Churchill that]; this, ‘on recording the monologue, ott epurcen and At the oseign Office Te was said|! ‘that the recording made no refer-|. ‘ence to Mr. MacLean or to com-|' munism. out Bitar in the esterday. that he _under-|. clared_hi ciated Hinge te ee yang! as F 4 yee] Vinterrowd —— tary, referred to Bi ‘Sording ‘at question time_ix._th Tele. Ra. —_- Haus at Cancion ie said that Holloman___. e there wi ecorg Uhl while the eeati Gandy. “Lhave_not nad. it played_o to ma, BuET ‘understand it does not, aaquite well-known _p! ‘Both sides of the House shouted) to Mr,.Eden to name the public! figure, but he’did not do a0. ‘Elsewhere it waa learned that. Mr. Burgess was well known for his a Before World War If, the story goes, Mr. Burgess, then working’ for the British Broadcasting Com~ pany, recorded Mr. Churchill's] caustic comments on Munich for the broadcasting corporation. * ~The recording was not used, but) mtr, Burgess kept the record and by long practice became 80 profi-' cient in imitating the Prime Mints- ter’s atyle that listeners coulc re) Tines-Herad peas [oo- git Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass Ln ‘then err| Becretary sdded: . peeen
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