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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 24
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Bejore Guy Burgess left for America
he threw a party for his highly placed
friends that finished up as a drunken
brawl. That is just one of the startling
aisclosurcs made today about the spy
who fled to Russia, by his closest friend,
@ distinguished figure | in the academic
“world.
UST when Gu Guy Burgess was performing his
wildest antics as public brawler and
y
* alcoholic, the Forcign Office chose to give
BT EP Bees imports
him the most confidential task of his entire
—:
iHplematic career.
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"THE PEOPLE"
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Rb JuL o goe
» behaved as he did. . , NOT
@There was, for example, '
the remarkable scere—zt—z BS SOUL
- Mr. Nichols
Mr. Toardman
Mr. Polinent
4 BOTTLE. DI
——When I tell you how it came about, you will surel ly
ask, as I do, wlat sort of supervision the Forelgg’ pac
exercises over its highly ex¢lusive staff.» \
ne Iam quite certain. AF .
ls superiors knew -all
| MCNEIL
about his misdeeds. LEFT
Indeed, there was only F
one fact about his affairs } BEFORE THE
that did not come to their, |
knowledge—until too late’ TROUBLE
-—that he was a key! STARTE
Soviet spy in Britain, o.—_—»
I was Guy's closest friend,
but even I. kept wondering
how the Foreign Office could
possibly employ anyone who
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