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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20

82 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 82 pages OCR'd
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1 . 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. mp
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