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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11

85 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 84 pages OCR'd
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DAVID LAWRENCE Cee Soviet Spies in Innermost Circles Slight Interest in Burgess and MacLean By Seitish Might Have Nipped Them-ot tvs the same old- story — ihe first siery from @ Russion Inadequate laws and tmeges oul Messrs, ManLear quate security measures to sg: Lt was revealed in ptotect a nation against Com- man ted article published y Us . News < agents and their dupes: thes the world, as the facts come te Hgnt abont the penetration mad: by Soviet spies inte the Brith Foreign Office aud the Ausire- ian Foreign Office. For, just as Alger HG Sereomeeission’s report on. tragsraitted seereis irom the: United States Department of & Worké Report. axste from the document 13 sued by Ub Boy a} Comunssion : a at week. vine espionage wag yeleded by te State, so did high olficiass ¢ ent in Austealia, Petrov the British Foreign Office give Ze trat he could nou tale them to agents, “Se- /anout the MacLear-Burgess curity risks” who should long, case. before have been investigated were nol carefally examined. * Possibly st was Because the atmosphere was poisoned by + the syeeious elaim that in dividual rights are sacrosanct + suis any. fpidivichae supersede the © to prutect i ne revelations about Mac beats and Burgess were printed Spaper over fe waek end By arrangement Morning Her- ‘alia. British Fore eign Office officiais, wha have vever admitted that they really knew what hapyened to Mac- Lest: and Burgess ar even what the pair had deen doing, now «is defini finatiy conesde that "on the Ystps thas Denald "foueleen fuuily sone ages Goetvay's wfho, up te” May 25. 1054, x te) he pPesunrnt Statements) £7 pee decupied the American desk. FAESEOS Be a documents im the British Foreign Office & 5 to the Soviet was & Soviet spy and monsh after month transusilted se- 3 Soviet what quantity we Bul Petrov thal Second & He declares retary Kishyi~ sxikassy in MacLean ia had keen London second 1 Br aud told him ‘Petrov? that Enmibassy in JW ON he Rad handied the material dur ing his s pied, pis Borat NOT RE aoe ngs 6 leg a6Gr's wi ch were pid! aoe in the Soviet Embsasy and q rieic~ the “mare ent information and catle ow, The rest be pr yared for dispatel: by courier dq the diplomatic bag." Shis strangely paraliels the ADE Retroy national cammities of mats which dealt with atomle- enersy information. For four years now it has been reported that the two men were beliind the Ton Cr, tain, but the Britisin Pore Office never confirmed ¢ TYow, fromm the pen of Vinci Shviet’ Embassy im Australia velationstip of Alger iiss of ahd told many details of the Ub U.S. Departmeni of State Soviet_spy system, has come and Whittaker Chambers, he whose “pumpkin. papers" di closed the documenseste-E8t “it Warns out th Hunt after wot Br Forean © fice stunved lovesiigating Sines dé Burgess, the two men sned of the danger and told the Soviet govermuent, which hisiped them te escape and | liter brought Mus. Mack. ean and the children to Moscow, The family nov ing ghere, . impor BaShOnS arise Im commetiion with the pis One is why the Brite Ish seeurity system didn't tance tion eit Mackean and By Bu and what possible etfeo were WEE On Soviet Boliay bane theary advanced etroy is tuat MacLean anfi MwESS are today advising te ovict gavermment on how to handin|Great Britain andfihe” United {States in the field of diplomacy. It may he the. x ROHS Sevier armor af The They have inside ivermation about, Ame ova axed British relations t was 4 on in Mexeow de~ wofied to informaiton received bu MacLean and Burge: The two Agents were t en while al Cambridge Uni- Petrov writes: visin was im Lender he fe Mining course, peciahzed in English, he was pointed te the & te of the Comms special gix the topencettt Rr Section 0 chives. Mr. Tolson Mr, Boardman | Mr, Nichois ate Me, Belmont Mr. Harboe __ - ME. Mohr Mr, Parsons Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr, Sizeo Mr, Pinterrowd __ Tele, Room . Me, Holloman aon “Phys section was “ devptec sofely te the great quantit} o miterial supplied by Macileat argl Burgess.” yeaes i048) ws 1882 important events wer ivappening iu the United State ef dirzet concern lo the Com monists. ‘fhe Karen wa 1880. MiMbar gess when they Sante to "0 te Uhem amid also iim ping it worihent ainly is to be hehe those British newspape: whch hace been sueering « ih American security syqs nage isn’t after ail just a fi Senator McCarthy agingtion and that “guill } if fellowe and thelr fetends, would ha’ aped the plot befo did. Eyen a ib ihe subieet of nioy s shown by a previp vestigation of the person ecards of the two men wap pave raised a que Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash, News Wash, Star é N.Y. Herald Tribune _ N, ¥. Mirror
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