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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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is Ritz Hotei. op UY B Sunday Express Reporter . : BURGESS yesterday made a further dramatic contact | i the Western world which he left behind when hd i pd Donald ’ Maclean skipped behind the Iron Curtain five 4 ears ago He sent an 800-word message to the Sunday § Express. Une hour after Burgess and Maclean illo teal ote ; Meena ave their five-minute Press eonference 4% 3 made Wentical offers to Maclean eek ago, the Sunda » both “men. It was the Natienal Hote! Xpress Sent a cable addressed te them in’ Moscow, where It xaid :-—~ vey had emerged from hiding. “Wants grently appreciate >» fodey's Pres nay confersice, A Prepue rep five hundred Edtior, nday Express, London.” y such invitations have been sent fo Moscow . Bargess and Maclean, None has been answered. seemed that this message, too, was to be ignored, Silence, then— Por six days, silenee, Thon yesterday mo a cable front “Burgess trepradeced atore} ug to send not 560 words, but 860 words. In the a the arlicke self Hn Column One transmitted fram: Moscow on to the Cable and Witciess in Lendon. A testse ait up in the vast operating room ab the siden end-when,.at £15, an operator reported : “Its E Moscow have Just coute up to say they have age Teady and will be transmitting in Fifleen minutos Jater ¢ame the LK: "I's pounding over. We've got eight pages Ly MESS: Burgess had promised 600 words, siete ran ta 789. I teck copies of ihe messages to Burgeas's mother, oR. Bassett, at ber fat in Arlington House, new in the end his “Obviously it is written by my sen,” she said. “Lam in ne doubt at all about that. I can tell from what he sys and the way the attics is written. Lan absotuiely ce strvugthened in her ruetion to send the ynoucy in payme convachion, S im the article fo the Roval Natlanal Lifebout iution. Fler son wanted to join the Navy. He sat to Dartmouth but faihog eyesight foreed him to © up that career, . Money no object The article self was a rouiing resiatement of the eumunist approach to East-West differences. Whab of fascinating interest is the cable from Burgess ouch preceded if. further quetes i iLed., dk only Burgess replied. favo in the Moscow s ' Foreign Office was far below that of ‘ eae OOK at that prelimig ignificank clues to the presene re ry Mos¢ow. addr d to “ Bunday Expre esho The title of Benven S come inte emistenece Burgeas. € He is clear: “hs tall of of Burs Baa Newspspe years an acule “study of the Brili He is. rR position, 39a. x shan q a moni aga dbo Knowledge of Burutss nd Maclean, nd Bur fap, witviorgh his post jon & fy the senier of ih nm thd i ied
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