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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 13

86 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 86 pages OCR'd
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1 te ent aay ot Val rou mnunists who were An the British Government, Be | Pentonvitle and later on 1) eof Man? wer i bs Th 4 \ man whotclaimed to have been « [the Red agent who originally j contacted not anly Burgess and { x Meclean but a number of ether 4 British (people whom I id j Se ‘same if I wanted to and eo won | e them over as secret Byanie Sos, the Soviet Government,” 4 butthely: help was sought ‘y RURST IDEA © iio By ce, a —————_—_ i thee car an f The frat fen ot of eae probiems of the British Govern: : a the, British “pent Ae eee wT a pena and a end e soaner “ wy. act as Commun! i) 5 seenis “origineta, “sod ue: ; DYNAMITE vee _ Beplanie with the shea Sovleh “yo, garticuiar thove were five ter. ‘Coen special iiblecte on which » SReak Gene duee a So SaseOw SRB, , itviney was strona! HE ie mbetore the , nese o GANOY, Stalin's “onest ‘si Y soree age RY Cohen dgpuly, the conventional C Noth Hitler: a mist doctrinalre who believe The alteg: ed ‘intentions of. ¥ all Wenter, antetlectels AGP. British " eactionaries ten ¥ ‘comp é al _ worthy, eepeciaiiy in matvers ot | SpUr@ sate ides ot evga espionage. Seo Ret Prelfist fendencies © This gash of opintons pads aide the Gogaus and Li the Kremlin itself, said parties Pe onvile created many dui culties at dileren times for ae ats 0! ie eng. Of, th hed Intelligence. [Ps i dt was this man.who shered i ttuprisoninent with Mr. Penton+ ivi in Britain in 1980, i * Hig name,” said fr. Pen! ton vile. “was Ludwik Prevod, a> FBudeten- German Sewish: nigin, wha, was bore in, ; Relohenbere. e Beis Fahne in Brague..3$3 ‘gangerousao.0 eee ; LAR eT OU a (gee young saga pee teh. sw fer ae on Hf nan. } Botan ta the early ‘trurti fostensibly, to atiend lectures { Oxford y: an Sdge (.. Lu LSiniversities, ate des Died si DANGEROUS is emis ioe in ff amaleurs, we: hae Sfaternal divisions etme nh embers, rye Oe Bri tisk Cor mangenish 9 spread Bee ‘and Asterloaniem, among membeys ‘of the een Civil Bervices a: ritish public opinion. id Mr. Pentonville: “All ; these Ideas were dynamite at * the time. of course. abd Maclean and Burgess. and the other + embers of prominent British families who were recruited by. Freund did a ead eal by their. ports “to confirm susp ‘cians of the Kremlin that Brie tain was preparing to make & ‘aeoret dea} with the Nazis and agi not seriously. intend to fight - wes this belle in Moscow that largely influenced the Kremlin to sign the fatal Mit pith Ribbentrop oo ip August, Burgess and Maclean aad the, other members of Freurid’s net" wokk. sald my, informant. never recived: poy ‘real train lonage .- work, subpec disgialine, accustomed: {Of Burgess and Maclean. More 7 pPositive, “factual Wanted. fod ESO. time official The post sons ‘nel by the two givlomats Pireativ: increased ‘their userute Bess, and now for the ‘iret ime , Moscow allotted te them anas- ; Chal payments, aI Freund was orien, 4 the Kremlis to * seek eae stone with ich. a former director of the Esminteraa British section in ‘Soun men were released from | fafermment, after Fassia entry {inte war, Bad if Was easy : for Barress. to maintain com) ) tact with them, < At one period during the ‘war, said my informant, he Was as frequent visitor to ine. @adquarters of the Czec! a ak Gavernment at 82, Pips ote London, Swi f z me he kel Haka Se tte BS, BEDE, Ps pend qemantians ia War-tiie F estes “Mr.” Pentonville: re koew at that tune that B: spy K on behalf of “Rrem! id on poe. men at Mtoe jajecyk, of Benes. of " Glechosidvaris, Klay Peler ot Yugoslavia, and Dr. 7 brngre ta Wan and pier fiustHoss Sagres tn 4 ee _e ered “British, Security "Bervices ". a “ lowed | Burgess to Cy it: 1 Savie' + RDG most oft us thous that i ‘must be a * gounte: pent ang also” for th e ee ine :lUgence. So! tS Even. ft neem sat the eaponaitle ple. or the Centrad European ‘and Bastern wernments that, Buryese us $ 8 i, security risk 2 eave The impressiont of iz # homosexual, a deprayed Fe vuigrly unreliable man! tonville then added
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