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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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BRITISH SEE PRANK |
AN ‘RED’ RECORDING
oreign Office Si . Diplomat,
L Mimicking Churchill Made }
[ "Platter Ascribedto Another,
LONDON, Oct. 20—The.
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“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
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as
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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.
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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
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