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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 9
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During'the last Three years sev: |
rai members of this floai
ation of would-be spleg
‘tral Europe have been *
ched by Soviet, been
otter? :
“You will work for us.on such
id such « mission in Paria, Lan
& or Washington. :
“noe your work fs accom
Rshed pr if you get into trou-
te, we will transfer you ie
cuegla,
‘Tou will be given a house
2 south with servants and ta
plortable pension to lve:
“the reat of your ite.”
te owe
SURPRISINGLY ~ ENOUGH,
uld-be apies are not at all wor
YT about the prospect of spend-
the rest of their lives in Rus.
oThe only drawback is that
¥ never will see thelr families
. or be able te sommunicate
aut toh mtany of this cynical,
serupalous get that doesn’t
stlery f %
Ae word among them is that
da perfectly, comfortable
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Russla provided you have-money
and servants and ere protected
by the, regime.
And » particular advantage
is the chance to indulge in all
your Vices. + -
‘The Russians are not partion
Jar how you. uve it you serve:
them well,
re ete
¥ USING. security’ and com-
i Fable retreats as their recruit:
idg Jure, the Russians tap on
dbors that Westerner might
Lgink would ever remain closed
to them, =~ >
For example, a high official
of a Middle Eastern country wae
approached recently. + cal
People of the intellectual.
standing of Br. Kinus Fuchs
and- Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo
have agreed te work for the
Russians,
Donald Duatt and Guy Bur
g¢ss may be latecomers among
the “marked” spies who Hve {a
some beautiful resort on the Cri-
mean Sea, tar from the tnquisi-
tive eyes of the Western world,
(Myucks and Pontecorvo were
bosom friends and both worked
on'the atomic experimenta for
the British, Fuchs confessed to
being 0 spy for Russia carly in?
dihtoad ts wow aerving @ th
ee
privon, Fe ‘ontecorve disappeored ”
late im the aummer of 4:
while on @ vacation in Centr
Europe. He reportediy wend
Ruasia
{MacLean ond Burgess were
membera of the British diplo-'.
matic services when they var ;
iahed in Poris this summer.
AfacLean was at the time head
of the American department of |
the British formon office, Bur- |
gers had recently retumed /
from Washington, where het
had been a member of amie!
basay atasf. Both were famil.
MacLean and Burgess ha a
worked for the Soviets for a long’
time hefore they were found out;
o-Faty had been promised that
when thelr role was finally an-
covered they would be ‘akea wo
«Ranglin, -
* No British foreign office ‘gocu:
aMents disappeared with hem be
cause the Russians already knew,
what they wanted to know. -~ H
mehetean's mission had fs
‘been completed... t
it wag time for him to retir
a ee |
THE RECRUITING methods of
the Soviets are all the more suc
cessful as they-come as a com:
{plete anticlimax to the way both;
ithe British intelligence and the:
American Ottice of Strategic,
Services (OSS) treated some of
thelr. agents, perhaps not the
post worthy, ' ‘after. the war,”
Where. ates” ‘expected te,
generous ‘grants: ands tind
fobs 'for' the ‘rest’ of their Hvis
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