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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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Maclean Tie to U.S. Aide |
Ja Ca
ro Embassy Aired |
‘quite drunk, and they burst in}mit him to eome into the Em-
and began pulling down cur-!bassy to clean up his desk. He
tains, smashing pictures, turn- was airbound for London by "2
‘ing out drawers, ete.
o'clock that afternoon.
‘The girl fled and telephoned) TTence there was searcely an’
for help, and by the time the opportunity for him to pick up!
‘police arrived the apatiment any conspiratorial mail in the!
‘was a wreck and the two men|Embassy library.
‘had passed out cold.
| American Ambassador Jetfer-
‘sen Caffery next morning
alked across the street to
h Ambassador Sir Ralph
enson and formally de-
aed Maclean to be “persona!
noa grata’ to the American
Simbassy, and demanded dam-
_ ing
ages for the girl's effects.
Sir Ralph. ordered Maciean
en the first airplane Jeav-
Timed did not even per-
The American Embassy in
Cairo knows of the discovery 6f
the “Cairo Letter,” but the ex-
tent to which the British may
have communicated the details
to the American Embassy or!
{have examined with American
authorities the question of who
\the American author of the let.
jler to Maclean might have been
is not, of course, known to this
|reporter. In any case, such a
‘decision would have been taken
seoretly in London, and not
Cairo.
As a footnote to the affair,
;Maclean in Cairo occupied a
large residence owned by the
British government, and as of
December telephone bills were
still coming in in.his name. It;
takes a long time to gerd
Baa a fanged in Cairo.
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