◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 10

74 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 74 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
B rgess. ‘Went Ei Curtain ing AY Be ot ‘ Sake tees" ¢ ee DUSSELDORF, Germany. You would expect that ritlsh Intalligence officers would intercowd —. £ least give a routine cheek -over to a man whor’s : eet & close friend of Gu Ny the vanished Br 7" Holloman passport in Miss Gandy = ee atm a Eastern sone lomat? Pte T soined a oo wt Ki “® Has himself fied trom Britain gg BpeD ined a commun! pul Yroa Curtain and halds a fob ishing firm, communist office in Ber . Ui e : << By now the baron” was well + ranches on the Re paganda ting he bad come to the West to preach: - x Ee ® How the Soviet Union's only at Sresent visiting hia moth. ‘ : . potey, with regard to Germany was ‘er in West Germany and therefore 4 rmany's demilitarisation and de vallabie for questioning? . i s jazification, But vo far no British Intelligence : ) | @ How the German People's Po- bothered 52-year-old : Bos Army had been formed in East Baron Wolfgang ra Bo in his *e Germany purely as an answe: Cologne hotel, Dr. Otte John, £ R to West German rearmament. ‘Thi headot ‘of the German Security Serve > id Would be aicoanded at once, he sal “has had a chat with him. . 7 if the West abandoned rearmame: WILLING TO TALK ‘ ye ¢ © How the Russians themselves ‘The! baron fs quite ready te! were Jon; te leave Germany if; hat. “You know,” he sald, ; _ only, he other occupying Powers ve been the indirect ins A re How the ‘oni ft Gi ~ of Guy Burgess’s decision to come y be seinen Of Germany: over fo us.” Se smalled and addedt é cout be. quite simply ettected by “OF course X cannot be certala : + Od the Beet Gen eeemane “hat Maclean” and Burgess are , » Libs Dae re ears thembelven “with wa J Rave never seen them GUY BURGESS *: « g- «- WMM Interference from the allies. ° or bree | been told anything about low they hoped to make a litde 3 them, But ten--such things are {WAS at the farewell party Burgessfextra money by arranging for some| : : gave in his Bondst. flat before his| West East business deals. ; ‘yetigwever, Lave s good notion | departure for America, wariloly the baron looked. ss {hat X was reaponslble. Yes, that | Putlitz, # naturalized British eltl-| Hs hoe locked dome ea LE: possible.” we by ihe, oping cer we -week | far older than when I had last seen! cy é a oh mae tive on hat | ae ng him fm London. almost nine years ay Wolfgang zu Putlita, member of | 52% $0 eat Irhed "and up Sashed the propa | og gunkers tamby, had used bis po-| ot day, ‘My rent slone cast me ans oe line "E afa bapp) tbe By ae ra In the German Foreign Office to fight Hitler by passin; eo tet in al while T atarved Britain es theres is is. Don't you formation to the Bri between | support the rearmament of this of Burgess Is a man 3995 and 1929, many and the rebirth ot ‘German Pabelligence experts should take But in September 1939 he man. aie : te Jock over whila be Ja! ged to get on & plane and escaped ing in tact was et wm The Hague to London. stored that-E-abhorred and te eeoBurgesa,” bead the baron, “had| which I had sacrificed my name and an intimate friend of mine] my career. , ~ a Ie He was immensely im: out and ee i nomen! fos sted with what I had done. He Be teen |) ny he telling everyone we met he pean T. was the bravest man he tf ER FOIA ibe i" i 3 i ex met.” his British | Last time Puviitz ‘and Burgess comtanist pullers he on
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 59
Jump straight to page 59 of 74.
Reader
Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 40
Stay inside Cambridge Five Spy Ring with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Cambridge Five Spy Ring Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Intelligence Operations archive hub and the more specific Cambridge Five Spy Ring topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
federal bureau
Related subtopics
MKULTRA
56 documents · 1684 known pages
Subtopic
Basque Intelligence Service
20 documents · 1930 known pages
Subtopic
Interpol
17 documents · 1676 known pages
Subtopic
Subtopic
ASSIGNMENT OF AUDIO SURVEILLANCE FUNCTION
2 documents · 12 known pages
Subtopic