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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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¥ young mien of & bad cone “ty the HG Systeme Whick os odis pression Sagland had failed rust be replaced. Pal ba ad Maclean, vharactors wis omethi vvisid orthodoxy bad a panacea appe: semained enchunted iaunis tarough the vhases oF Russian imyperiahisur arder to believe, but there ¢ are in Masvow, » An acquaintance of tne eseribes Bureess as awidors wall, blue-eyed, curly-aained am with the aleit expression af 9 terrier, He was imuensely cigelic, a great reader, t walker, hoaste nay stant geank like a fish, (is: dviniing yas that of a dedi ather than an un He alsa wanted intensely ia be Ped and larwely suereedod, fut Ce wanted, too, ie be taken serie ously and never was, ft wits said that, brilliant miind ard sti, he ‘nat Bree Communion Vhat ‘y with (on ws Leer, seemed a parody wl ie ae he wasted to be. Doors cjon iy Beisin wo velLeonnected yours wen |. Cambridge, Ruegess' pitrtiouley door in the Talks Depurt- went of the wovernment-on nied Sritish Broadeasting Ue tion, Abvut this tine, middle * Re gaint t people, Luter injarualias ike that this + 9 ahegtege ns teat Brorgens, ihe baad ve ques. Ryeytiny f tnd seereta, emplarer Brite sat y infos Ti Keist Barty, His Mies aeiMed giedtt fed, - P When aur ryese soved promptly fous the Bevis ageney far reuntecintellignnns erseas aud “ad to de ina brane: No deippingy aenis Y Parachute, oaperatiog wills istaner forces aid supplying vrus. He w ail “a kee at In 142 be moved 4 BRC and remaine? thvow + & producer ju the propaganda departuient, “ese BRC yeas he ceret of his extrsas " sais, OF eutersie, LE throvgh colless aud tute bis BRU days, Burgess cultisned us oucenpt style of dress, it tie manne MN Creating a colueful cher ster. The bathtus fiwss lian | cue infrequently. ibs imade habit of breuklasting. unshaced, ae the Ritz. Now ane age sould vert a suite at Cleric the fine hutel, and for nu pur t Tee meucon toss a ie Burgess hibits aad | S What the Gricisa' Pbias, hey aly Has | « jobs, partiodarly the ® nq nave wiesned P hat involved reem E Eetening post in theenpital AGGAG. they Whatever his post, he mada it © the world, ; . euil pess j Sud a bttle more inportant and Furgess was back in Tondon $y sxplit person, 4 lille tore secret, And never €2 May 7, 1951, and the Foreiun in the histovy of the human raca € ) s & Rn more poorly equipped 2-H to keep eerets, thensh if now ea tah y | appears that he successfully kept peitiing if Washingtes, he tuld [his biggest one for 20 years, & Wend, was “absolutely frijcht. Tn Bed, whatever hand was fl. Senator MeCarthy, Ail those guiding Burgess’ destiny directed Barges. Terrible atmosphere, ‘him. to the Foveign Oiice, He * { beeanie a member of the News | Department at first, then assist. made it plain that his 1 ituy was va pected they hohe cnald Duart Maclean’s story is ferent, but the progression Maclear worled steadily at , int private secretary to the No. toward disintegration is as plain Pores iMiee welll 100, 2 man in the Foreign Office, Hee. te £ce. ; had he j tor McNeil, In 1947, after a | He was the san of Sir Donald jidrd deiaking Maclean, a distinguished iiberal made a inember of the perma tember of Parliament and cabi- newt sty mt minister who dird when young Through all these years Bug. Ticnald was 14. 1053 father’s for Sees was. livin Notoriously wiyh FI was small and Donald eng a pudey ex-hailes dancer named 2rd Casmbridee with the assis ck Hewit, being arvested from Bre of relatives. . j time to time for drauken driving , Maclean then tal, sau | (he was an abominable but per bsired and vathes fat and (aiid. sistent dviver) or getting involyed Diffident and withdrawn, he was x deunker brawls that did not ®t! : Preach the cuts, # verted Buryess and AME ia ol, vot the usual pica? qc his vethee tom five of o British diplonat, Bat? “ken to the Muy. [Whitehei cither did not know ,, Mactean iapress ; ov Hid nob enre. thik pevied as uniahle but wea <<? “mural deterioration #7 he himself has suid that lors in have been accelerated EES had 4 strony infiuenece over jnived the Bar Bast deste 13), @n Talluencé which he the Forvizn Office. He ang Oaised to hawe conquered sf (brief ora examination, he wa eted to the -scemingly extro- he, | Mos act a flat in New Bund Having college. Mis “scholarship St. in whieh they stused almost 8&8, Pri Hane ane he nasser alt iwhtly allwate parties, ree frum the univer to tke | is i . Really Sloan Bene Perfect Picture : hese gatherings were models & British Diplomat los [of disopley. There was screaming Me was in Londun untii 1938, | ted shoutine aud the erashing of ther was sent to Pavia as roy t fuses. Gues ; Heauently lett M3 undersceretary and worked very paivdiges and Buryess himse : “al crave mane ouce made his exit ona stretcher, 24. He adopted the grave man i edi rawn HET &Ad the dark suit, homburg LA Fellow diplomat had thrown POY Gnd We ce the diplomat and Hin down a stairwell. tn aiidition i G a § ell, he was hed as 8 young man ty these inadequacies as a tenant Bo was pray ed as a young mal he was not prompt with the rent, #6 Yate spent in sua Nevertheless, Bur in Aug Left Bank cates with artists aed wate 1650, wus eppoivicd Seeand sculptors. These were wo Pureesse Recretury at the British Ete deve shenanigans. We impressq bessy in Washingtoi, @ pitun of laws. Rargess had frequently repressed. a distaste jor things American aud his esreer in this corelyy wus aninhibited tn the hig elders by his steadiness and % petworthiness, A friend has said ahbt if you gave Maclean a jelior he] would have mailed it, while Birgess either would have for~ vent. gotten St or opencd it and read it, {iis cables to the Porelen "Phe Maclean of this period ONice were Ueld ap by his supes ence remarked that though he riors becuse af anti-American vendiaed « Mervist he had de- unpopular with bis es and hte drinking On one day in Beb- cided to throw in his lot with the Oppressors, In 1940, in one of his ramlJes he was” wrested throngh the Left Bank cafes, within an hour in Maclean met and prompily mar- Virginia fur deiving over $0 miles-ritox extremely attraction ws bour, wealthy gicl from Chicago, Me- When a British visitor to the “———-—-—— reported him to the for anti-Reitish re- mmurks, he was ordered hame, fr there some Machiavel- Van puenose in this gecentrie, heivier if has not yet bgen dis. SPY Teed. A normal ne apent ° . Shae N.Y, DAILY NEWS 68-69 (UF OG jugs openly « z eee : but be take his time ahout sub- yy i oflen depressed ly France aad soni they Was there throughoat the pe ever, The Barwone vised hoinosexs The Germans re the Mae hte Terdeaux, returned to Fone Nagland weekends duchig sappear trom his wife, rhea firn penitent to more hard wo In 1944 be was dispatched tc Washington as First Scecetacy a rare port for a man of lie ioc of the development of the atent bomb and he was in & position iv know of what was going en, This wes the pesiod of Aloo Hiss’ fest inieence in Wis ston, and if woul be interest ing to keow if tiey were ne anitinted,
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