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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 12
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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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