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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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= ipa . Found, “ays 3: no clues to their disappearance. Co ~ The case was revived iast week: A! tadd 7 when Chicago-born Mrs, Mac- “Cl Lean went to the Riviera for | es eee vacation. Glavin _ Nicho British Paper, Rewea e yy ‘ LONDON (Thursday), Aug. ; { 30 (UP).—-British intelligence i officers _h missing ¢ British Riplomats, Guy Burgess and Donal/ ae) MacLean, after a three aoe months’ search of western Europe, the London Daily Herald reported today. The newspaper. organ of the Labor Party, said intelligence agents informed the Foreign Office yesterday they had traced the movements of the two men since they walked off a channel steamer at a French port, May); 25, and vanished. The newspaper said Mrs. Mac- ‘Lean, now on the French Riviera, had received a message from her husband, but it gav .no further details, Mrs. Mac| -Lean’s housekeeper, Sylvia Bett field, said at their country hom ipPhat she knew nothing of such ‘bh communication. ‘ard Is Noncommittal nei deny_the report. One. _yard_official said: “T Bs our_provinee._It is office affair.” purely reigi q_otber_ Lan newspaper carried the story. thie ‘two diplomats walked down the gangplank of the chan- nel steamer Falaise at St. Malo, France, and vanished. Their disappearance brought down a storm around the head of the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons and sent Britain's Chief of Intelligence to Washington to talk with J. Edgar Hoover. Many jumped to the conclu- sion it was another case of \defection to Communism and ‘that the two men had fled be- jhind the Iron Curtain. But there was no concrete evidence. No Bodies Turned Up i Another theory was that one * or both of the men might be dead, but no bodies turned up. A third theory was the mei ad thrown over their caree! s the result of a “bender.’ urgess, 40, a heavy-drinkin; achelor, had been recalled from ‘ashington because of a series of scrapes over fast driving. MacLean, 38, was worried over the expected birth of a third ; child. —! Tracy. Harbo Alden Belmo ation , Lavghlin. : Mobr Tel Room___ ! : — { gore oo 45 SEP 28 1951 —_— ooo oBanet Del Page Times-Herald -_ _ : 7 ew Wash. Post / ' Wash. News Wash. Star -s___ N.Y. firror N. Y. Compass
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