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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 16
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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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