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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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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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