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 12
Page 81
81 / 86
Continued from Page Four
appearance of being foreign, and
was certainly not that of
Burgess,
16 According t information
given to the Foreign
Office in confidence by Mrs.
Dunbar, Maclean's _mosher-in.
Jaw, who was then living with
her daughter at Tatsfield, she
received on August 3, 1951, two
registered letters posted in Si.
Gallen, Switzerland, on August. 1.
One’ contained a'draft on the
Swiss Bank Corporation,
London, for the sum of £1,009
payable’ to Mrs. Dunbar: ‘the
other, a-drafs payable to Mrs.
Dunbar for the same sum.
drawn by the Union Bank of
Switzerland on the Midland
Bank, 122, Old Broad-sireet,
London,
Both dratis were stated to
have been remitted by order of
Robert Becker, whose
address was given as the Hotel
Central, Zurich.
Exhatstive inquiries in col-
Jaboration with the Sw
afnorities have not led to the
iddntification of Mr. Becker
ang it is probable that the
naihe given was false,
AT ANY TIME*
oO Ce
| abroad?
A letter
Shortly after the recapt
of these bank drafts Mgs.
aclean seceived a letter
her husband's handwriting,
Tu had been posied in
Reigate, Surrey, on August 3,
193, anid was of an affectionate,
personal nate as from hus
band wo wife,
it. gave “No clue as 10
Maclean's whereabou' othe
reason for his disappearance,
pus it explained that the bank
drafts, which for convenience
had been sent te Mrs. Dunbar,
were intended for Mrs. Maclean.
18 fix
on August 15,1951.
Ro doubt that bwaé in his own
handwriting, 1) had been posted
at Herne Hill [in South-East
London} on Aust 11.
LQ Mrs, Bassett, the mother
UY of Burzess. received a
letter in Burgess’s handwriting
nh December 22. 1953.
The letter was personal find
ve no information as| to
Jurgess's whereabvouls, It fvas
Imply dated “November.” pid
Had been posted in South-Hast
London on December 21.
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
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
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
pigs operation
soviet control induce
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic