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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 24
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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
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