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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 14

85 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 85 pages OCR'd
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‘ ‘ By JOHN 0’DONNELL = Washington, Feb. 12.—This current installment of the great Burgess-Maciean spy serial, as contributed by the Kremlin authors, has left this constant reader chew- ing his finger down to the second knuckle and wondering where thé next chapters are going to be printed and who will be the authors. f> Almost five years ago, Guy” “Burgess, the ecrewball Britisher assigned to Britain’s embassy Here in a post where he was Puy te our nati ry and top policy secrets, and Maclean, head of the American ;: ‘tment in the London For- eign Office, vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Both were Commu- nist sympathizers and haters of the “Anglo-American” attitude toward Communism and “the senselessnest and danger of the American policy in the Far East and in Europe.” But why have the big boys in the Kremlin after years of silence parade Burgess and Maclean at a Moscow press conference? We suge7st a couple of answers. These are mere suggestions be-" Trend eguse this reporter tr eee eee - with Winston Churchi sa May, 1939, observation in the House of ‘Commons: that the thinking of the bosses in the Kremlin “is a riddle, wra a mystery, inside an enig: Wash. Post and F we note that the date of Times Herald “Maclea PI Red Boss Khrushchev Wash, News Sf '61 was shortly after the deck aid h in the dark sion of Harry ‘Truman to remove S74 Me wae in the dark Wash. Star abruptly Gen, MacArthur from his Far East command. N.Y. Herald The current volume of Truman’s biography and Gen. Mac- Tribune Arthur's blistering retort pivots on the unanswered question: who ; tipped. off the Chinese Reds that they could enter the Korean war N. Y. Mirror _.___ - with the vital advance knowledge that the U. S. State De-*' N. Y. Daily News partment and the White House under Truman would hamstring Daily W + MacArthur by giving the Red army their “place of sanctuary” north aily Worker ——_—_ of the e Yala and prohibit him from bombing their bases and svPply The Worker ° Ny Borgess New Leader andMaclean, reached Moscow 46 hours before a decision was made P j rete two British defectors out of their long concealment f; . Date 31956 } Seen casereeT GB OT ipl : DELETED : T ie poualel Be FEB 4 3 BY LETTE? JUN 22 1876 ? - als) PL. us TS * beh ee Dyege
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