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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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oe ake ‘ orking "Its Mark Fraser who turnsSup at the Economics Institute, in the Moscow “suburbs, where he bas fre- F goenth been working, and it Mark Fraser who answers telephone calls at the Maclean ‘hy t apartment. rf ‘Madsoeyevsky has taken sang ies yal very recently, and : S enable Maclean to appear in otprint-4n Soviet publications i, without being immediately * identified. The Russians are * fhould pass for those of a _Rpssian commentator. “‘Madsoeyevsky has done a = colts of pieces for Pravda, but his mi in work is to be for “ heavy” magazines, com- menting on current affairs in © Britain. Indeed it was disclosed to- day that as Madsoeyevsky he be has just written for the maga- zine World Economics and International + Relations a 4,000-word assessment of * Britain’s role under a Labour _ Government. " Maclean was ordered to’ rest + ‘by his Russian doctors, is now “being studied in. the British Embassy here. Maclean accuses the ’- » ‘Labour Government of being ay. determined to fight eanxioas thar his—uiews— Year ee The' article, written before.” “Feapubt, wondering what was mele ates reese fm against national Tiberation? "movements. pent. But, he finds a; “few “lukewarm, | *"5 approval for for ime Minister Wilson's policies in what he “ describes as partial | de-* a parture from the rules of the, cold war.” ry litics compared. to’ AB “split between Chambecaia | awa ° on the cites as examples : tof the zap ; the failure of the Gevern- ‘ment programme in armé rockets, the failure of E1 to be accepted in the Com- 5 mon Market... all this this haar, caused 2 great echo in the domestic, political life of ‘the’ country.” . : So much fér the writer; Suni an Madsoeyevsky, but it, poral . Donald Maclean, in manner‘*; and in person, who took part q in one ot the serangest eneah counters Moscow's ipl lamatic. community has witnessed’ in'* Trams eee Accident_ Maclean and the BA i Ambassador in Moscow, Sit Humphrey Trevelyan.+" met accidentally in the foyer of a2) Moscow theatre during the}. © interval. They knew,-¢ach other slightly from }. their ¢- Foreign Office days. , both were on the lower, as 4 of their careers. t A second diplomat who was’ present describes the scene. - “It was something quite re- . markable. The two men recor nised each other immediately, For Sir Humphrey, of ooursey it was impossible to make an ‘** approach to Maclean, or ever = to speak with him. Maclean-./ looked as if he would ve" to talk. “ Instead. the two men, ius, 7 S"sivod looking at each fgr several seconds. “ea , S going on: in the ath Fas d."" ° je ‘Maclean has spoken of this “encounter to his friends. Hei told them: “As I looked at = aay . Trevelyan 1 kept” thinking + sate! "how easily I could be in his. place, but somehow" cay ry couldn't imagine hin?! ia % ‘He aiso says there Sole “no deep split ns ow er: tional problems " in British, “oe
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