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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 24

60 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 60 pages OCR'd
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‘ » King, spoke of 2 second d agent ¢ information was then in no N & way Ink, The idealist But in London the Foreigh , fice said that King was Jul : r ten years in October 1! for passing Informetion to the Russians — who then nea a ‘weaty with Germany, He ws caught as @ result of ° statements made in Amerie by : Mr. Levine and General Krivitsky, a detective Russian agent. The statements were gent ‘o endon: ‘by the British Kriitsky, after referring to | who was & Scotsman and SGealistic | voung Gemmunish* Maciean was then But the British rorelan Office said that the infcrmation “of a general character” given about the Second Man was “not suffi- ciently precise” to lead to his arrest, okesman sald that after q 2 aiegpoearance of Maclea; might ha’ ofturred to wonda ether he was not the secon| phrson referred to." Now there is no doubt th: Man. Maclean was the Second The ar! if. He had been workin Foreign Office if & Third Sec- Is itsky the U.S. authorities, n° e390 that the Second Man * occasionally wore & cape and dabbled in artistic circles.” At the time to which Krivit- sky_wes referring Maclean was eT in @ small fist in Chelsea. Tt now seems clear that the d with Maclean by ritish Secret Services. | Maq- fan went on to become Cou! or in Calto. and lat later heal the Foreign Office, Nort rican Department. °° .| King-—-but not Maclean—was The suspect . u : ? , Three big questions ie. . . irom these ney itisclogures Pe . . meals NE.—Was King 00 asulige , ’ during the ing ies in ' : Maclean case? I" TWO. why did the White’ ron the Maclean case mel e no reference to the, a Krivitsky information ? a (The White Paper said that by the Beginning of May 1951 , —fust. before’ Maclean and | Burgess vanished — Maclean : Rad come to be regarded as the ‘| : rincipal suspect involved in leakage of information to. 80) irs eariter.} statement to Lord tornlen, He a convinced us there a le Bisel British information to The message that trapped * . Eth from Washington by Lord lan then British ‘Anibatsa~ dor, and Sir Victor Mallett, his Counsellor. » Sir Victor, 63. said in Londpn . yesterday + “after an inter wf; with Mr. Levine I rey is statement to Lord Loths oleian, le convinced ther: led ge of British information, “ft & result of that we sent London a very detailed and : , Secret dossier.” : ‘The informant ~ And Krivitsky ? He was found , az shot dead in a Washington hotel ° on February 10, 1941. “A verdict of suicide was recorded, But he had gone in fear of his life since he “walked out” on Statin— alter being sh his to fy in Urope—| lawyer, Mr. ore, Waldmn, ae not rdict, night, Mr Waldman - gecept the And last told the Dally Mail | Washington correspondent am more ever convinced that {t was not & ‘voluntary’ suicide.” . He believes that erivitsky's suicide was “staged.” possibl ly oan } after an agreement with Sovie! agents, that his wife and child iNould be spared if he shot him- Krivitsky ” tora, Mr. ‘Waldman In 1939 thet the Kremlin wi lly informed within-24 hou: f all secret decisions made Pondon: ‘He believed that thefe a lt a direct leakage. fro} g Downing-streetin ein yer t fl i
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