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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 16
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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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