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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 16

50 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 49 pages OCR'd
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een RCRA SSCS HIS CLOSEST FRIEND SPEAKS AT LAST @ This is the first of a profoundly “OR 20 years one incredibly vicious man used blackmail ad corruption on a celossal sale to worm out Britain’s most ecious secrets for the rulers + Russia. ~ That is the truth about Guy Burgess, 2 missing diplomat, that even teday ae men whose duty is to pretect us som. forvign spies dare met adralt, only last week a comfoitiee appointed vy the Prime Minister presented a report + the state of our security services that wedged th. Bameful truth, ‘The report spoke of the danger of empoy- 3 M confidential posts men with “serous <ings sued as “ drunkenness, addiction ta dags, homeseruallty, er any luose ving.” vi th Patled to disclose how one man who ¥ of all these fabings—Guy Burgess ore CAMBgG to-Brivain than any or in our. history. disturbing series of articles. They @ London, His chiefs had reveal appalling jafts about Guy @ received bilter protest Burgess, Ure mixsinys diplomat, that from our Searct agents that Bu the authorities HAVE NOT DARED Burgess are only able sion because THEY HAVE sIHNDS IN HIGH PLACES HQ PRACTISE THE SAME “RRIBLE VICES. is the failure of the MInERL cm these wo e counts that Has at lass compled me to tell alt I waw akont Burgess and so ce the publle in posses- of facts that qught uver to have been con~ sled. 2 abi net going be N ihe wale canes @ about how sable to} i ogeb aw ef them SoHE so sit for We shared ad {here {$$ no one nu The WAS has the kno 50, an T have knows Gury Burgess dit failed to warn the nation that men to, escape de- Aye wont Ye had the same frenss, He is godfather to one of my & on. He wioie io me fre~ quently when we were separ He Has Aven Seno We WESHages of fvien fram Aiascor, pie Br guped pie, his, Y reign Office and cur ehinis that te the mast ng oud temnfying pars ol sy Bhory Guy Burgess is the grealest tisitar im our history. Yet for 2% years he ploved ihe part of & stalwart Brito He was & Communist of tie teepest Red. Yet for a } time he conwin hat he had Nazi sympathies a to parties Loge teetiee two roP 8 {T SERVICE MES broke ove: he ret 3 when, ESS TO LET THE PUBLIC # S208 Ae aw. SThes dixelo sures | come from the one wan | ia position te kanw, the | complete story. He was | Burgess’s closest friend for more thes 20 years and nave occupies a high in Gib: There can he no coud! now thai Guy Boomer Was, acedensvtc post, + Bin fact, pie carry’ sab is treact as & Russian syit. BOnly he can revesl He was attempting ts the fidt depth of cor- gather information about evr Secret Service netwark in ruplion thet lay belind Guy Burgess’s treachery. Nene he speaks about the friend who was te greai- est treitar of all. Western Europe for transe imisslan te Muscow, His “indisereiins ing the nantes of Pp in Tac me, He ba Shar he was sacupable ot ontvoling Ais tongue. (Pho was oa sius suman xt the Foreign OF 2 Tanet Nevertheless at rhe esd of i Even Am diselow ¥ 3 e can be 19 yy story than to ick {8S owl Ve EEE AL HT i oa t doubte i: Bee weotised ini tor m pone | Often, reas dws fae day. Ib was supposed ta be a! yet man to bond break £ his duties at fy at cur key Goverment Foreign Offes, where HEY gonarments. | was Bex sone ee wo * Hector McNeil, Minister ct Staie eee and Se command 19 Terrified Evness ' * And — Burgess Ged of beixg accked. But his trip to North Afctes in searen of sunshine tarred out to be ene long alcoholic arouse. Brance sud Spa mopped qa for special celewrations jin Hadid and Gibralta: Thea he capped the fet RR alcotighe—and dipiomatic—t inte the afar dome the Me up igs Gur she dura he to the ob Soak 86 TH i} “Tk te too They
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