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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13
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ee .. From GORDON YOUNG. a
Burgess and Maclean .. , names synonymous with esptona,
the man behind them ; whose idea was tt to infiltrate British intellectuals,
with Red agents? These, and similar questions, ate answered thes
H interview with a man who claims to know the intimate background,
“ astonishing BURGESS AND MACLEAN AFFAIR. .
seensecneseves METZ, sreee :
ROM a highly nervous man in a brown tweed sult who
spent part of the last war in Pentonville: Prison I ¢
eard today a most remarkable story of the whole back-: GF { F
round of the Burgess and Maclean affair." ‘Ee 4: . bos oy
“.\ The." man from Pentonville" even claimed to give'the name of an | ‘
ee
‘the secret agent who first recruited the two British diplomats for th
Soviet Intelligence Service. . Before my informant would meet me yoo ‘
; had to give a solemn promise that I would not reveal his identity, ani 4 4
\ our meeting in a back room of a busy street was arranged after a Serie! ad . y |
‘of complicated telephone calls in which code names re used. ** am ?
et For this man claims that he Js still trusted by tl
f Intelligence Service ‘of an Iron Curtain country f
which he has worked for years and that he still has m2
j zelatives in Soviet-controlled territory. ~
is “Mr. .Pentonville® pro- — Loe
(duced to me papers which, Lo .
jj identified him as, in fact, a
fk person who’ has occupied
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2 ef cles, "ome a
f squnds largely a pruned Coe SENT o. . Rhee Renate
bit Judge for _ ; eet
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‘nist is what @i¢ said :.. °
_ BY LETTER JUN 22 1976
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. . . . REF RECORTED -
6s iy FICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE 438.06. ina 1955
OCTOBER 20, 1955 . AMERICAH EME.ASSY, . . 2 43
LONDON, ENGLAND LONDON, ENGLAND, Meera pememmte em
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