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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 23

49 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: War & Geopolitics · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 49 pages OCR'd
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‘Boon *} after Maclean: revealed” he ‘was bdeing~: # fdilowed.” As they walked together to lunch at the Royhi’, Agtomobiie “Club: “Maclean 4 said: “I'm«in - frighttgl.- xtrl puble,~ being followed by the dicks. ead -"-~He -glso "knew ‘that-the’ watch ‘extended only to’ -London—that his country"home near: Westerham was’ not yet being observed—that the two" men, detalled to° follow him “just saw him into the train at Charing , Cross each evening, touched their caps and went home.’ ‘ of the ‘country and Burgess decided -to”go ‘with him} ",.. but once that anxiety was over there came only one ~ hhve been if Britain had worked faster.‘ t # They include Eton sketches,” ‘ * nt: PAGE'SIXS:- < ‘thre-of the story’... t y 4scape”” from England.« Maclean appealed to Burgess Tor, help in getting outs “because I thought he was right THEY COULD’ HAVE BEEN’ STOPPED *< _HAD_ BRITAIN’ WORKED FASTER. . ve a fe ' - Burgess—whose revelations run to 40,000 words— reveals too that they nearly missed their escape ‘boat Pa de moment of fear? 4: . ; Could they have been stopped’? Ral EE "The Burgess story makes’ it clear :that they could’ Y Burgess claims. at it took nine days to get the search going. , . The Burgess story—which follows Guy Burgess from his days at Eton—reveals too that Maclean and Burgess are by no means intimate friends, They live diferent lives—work for different Russian departments. : py In addition to his fult confession Guy Burgess has mafte available to Tom Driberg a mass of fascinating documen’ drawings, pictures, and letters, soe ete eG personal photographs, , and.. letters. from some of the; most’: eminent: men’ of;-the day ts ” 6 i § NOW TURN TO ind begin the first cha} the . st began and * they *
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