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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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Bedurjty Officials Si 4+ Names Off List Sent To Ports By ‘Sunday Dispatch Reporter HE search for Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, the Foreign Office men who disappeared “after landing at St. Malo, France, from a cross-Channel steamer a year ago, has been called off. _ . Their names have been removed officially from the list of “suspected persons” compiled by the Government for use by immigration officers at every British port. . : This does not mean that the two diplomats have been found. . It is an indication, rather, that, the possibility of their return to Britain is considered so remote that further watch for them would be a worthless waste of time. Have They Had Some News? One question raised is: Has Whitehall received information which makes it certain that neither man will ever attempt to return, even if he is able to do s0 ? The “suspect list” supplied to immigration officers contains the names of persons, both British and alien, believed to be connected with subversive political -aettvities, or otherwise likely to endanger the countrcs ron Security. Officials Strike The ir | If any persons named in land in Britain the - gration officera have instr tions to question them. delet Possible reasons for the lon of Burgess and Maclean from the are: i The authorities concluded some THine'time ago that Burgess and Macican are elther alive the other side of the Iron Curtain or dead somewhere this side of i hi msequently called off the " search Jor them which previously ; was being carrie out by the British and Western European security services. . Moscow Claim at midnight on May 25 last year. ‘They arrived at St. Malo at 6 a.m. next day and went ashore Of their movements after that nothing is certain. There were some Central European rumours — completely unconfirmed—that they had bgen | en In Moscow. jf But all efforts to check on this pave failed
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