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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 12

86 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 86 pages OCR'd
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HE “Third Man” Donald Maclean who tipped of hat M.15 wer hadowing him has been traced. Secret Service nien and officers of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch know him, But if is wilikely he will ever be charged with any offence under the Official Secrets Act. There is no evidence that either his intention or his act was disloyalty to the Crown. The investigators are are certam that they convinced that when he : beqaine aware that Maclean was being waiched, he | consiuded that the only Matbican’s “careless talk | eomysneed th possible explanation was Guping drinking bouts. fix only motive was to ; sn Maclenn to “wateh | He bel isean bad | been gy onaMee fer hs | When be was carpets 4 CURES ierelions aid anus n Cara. and Ulat the Dinios | make Corps career ob we young man ofl excepilonal ability Bromise was Kboue ber end a demand for iis vesghanpn, that Magesn feas hed was Known} 3 handiul of seas ere ign Aled fo Gall nin.” This Exiled the number of those who—as the White Paper on the Mac coupes affair res yeattd— bnder caspicion ag Ee cd” Mactean, These men were saan cleared of any -deligerate astiod in warning . Maclean that the sesplonage Ret was ing on him on the eve’ of Dis pissed exty from Britain May. 19310 the eatara were ither there tad ss talk” bY One of sOWF, OF that & acruaintance of sed whe mag ec to suadow Tia. . Weeks of Inquiry proved this Be TAWRY BeTOS| the 2 the Southamgior- i j bride man. Good intention ied into Mactean, a Cake He was senulneh: coicerned phat Maclean, son Af & former Cablner Miuint Donald Maclean—was Hot his country but is tnd: tioh, was being false to als het ibage, And 39, almast Rt the exasy , moment that Hi Moty!son, a Fi tary, was sanctioning a progoua) | that: Macie: be interro. | Aled AS & Suspected spy. ths | wellintentioned “triend" was socaxing 35 man-fo-mean Maclean, then a a senior branch of the Foi seu The Bussian ge with vas in phe week er day, May 26, 1051, On the Friday Mr." Morrison put his signature to We cocti- ment sanctioning the Maclean guestioning By uidhignt, Mact were out Paper mainiained sone he was put of London. When Paciiament reassembies MPs wil demand an w {wn of the Ix watch kepe on Maclean by the Bo securily crganis beginning af che Beli of fomna te: a oger Shree persons, Q ae rexarided agents bay yea or kn cats
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