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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 11
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Secret papers
———Papers
he Cicero
touch ©
“\-by Maclean
By Daily mail R, rter
FLOW aid Donala™Mtactean
photograph secret Foreign
ce papers and avoid sus-
[rte
1: {8 understood that he tol kB
101
them” home to Tatsfeld abd
{photographed them overnight
jfore returning them,
A tradesman with @ shop only
a few miles from the Westerham jin
ome Of Sir Winston Churehill
first became SUSD.CIONS of his in-
terest in Photography,
Maclean had used his darkroom
%0 develop his film.
: No details
Sails
The tradesman wrote
to Sir
Perv Suilitoe, then head of the Mi
Secret Servic By then the net
Feared capture
They apparentiy took no acon
because they feared capture {by
ritish security services,
Tt Is therefore assumed that
Mrs. Maclean, having made fall
Donpeements “with her hushand.
Donald. herseit took the initiative
making contact with Russias
Secret detwork in this country,
She appears to have done this
at a time when she may have
B Watched at her home in
Tatshield by Britigh security
officials.
She persuaded the authorities
to allow her to travel to Switzer.
land in 1952" with’ hee mother,
Mts. Dunbar. and the children—
Fergus. now iz, Donald, nine, and
&
‘was closing Maclean. Special
+Branch- inquiries were alniost
complete,
But Maclean dia not ask the
fradesman for further help. He
[had fled to the Continent,
| bast night the tradesman,
Whose name ‘has Rot Seen dis-|
closed, said : “7 found out a good
deal about Maclean, But 1 must
not give details,”
Maclean's method of sending
Photographic copies is compare
able with the Method of C.cero,
Rapime, valet of the Brit
Ambassador to Turkey,
Photographed — D.-Dhy
danding papers and sent them
tye? Glm “Pive Fingerd >
his exploits, .
Melinda, four.
Mr K
Her flight across the Iron qur-
{ain in September 1953 is said’ to
have been arranged by an MVD
agent under . instructions from
tslytsin,
yieess’ And Maclean are now
Working ag advisers in the Anglo-
American. Affairs Department, of
the Soviet Foreign Ministry, !
Gey, are in excettent health
and live just outside Moseon
Kislytsin. who met them when!
they flew from Paris ‘te Moscow
via Prague in 2931018 it°s¢ under;
Stood. thelr “watehdog." 1
He appears to have -anpointed |
‘problems
Several MVD men to help them
ith language and other |
i
FSvisin, white holding an
MYD frst in the Soviet, Em-
n
Maqtontact with ‘Bureess and
Madlean and helped in the’ fans.
nustion to” Moscow of shore
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