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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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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.
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