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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 26
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by the FBI of four more Soviet
agents in this country shows
again that Red espionage is not
, by any means confined to Britain.
‘ Two persons using the aliases
of Robert Balch and Joy Ann
Balch (subsequently revealed to
‘. _be the names of innocent, loyal
. ‘ citizens) were arrested.
So were Ivan D. Egorty, a
Russian personnel officer at the
United Nations, and his wife‘
lAtexsandra. The FBI also reported
that it had identified as spies two
other Soviet U.N. attaches who-
had skipped the country in May
‘Spparently realizing that their:
i game was almost up for them.
Three-cornered links between
Moscow, Britain and the U.S.
have been uncovered. Swedish Air
Force Col. Stig Erik Wennerstrom
©.
| “THE apprehension on July 2.
confessed that,he-had been a Rus-
sian agent for 15 years, during
five of which-he was in ashe:
_--ton, (HerbertoPhilby (now be-'
havo” — ton tobe a fugitive behind the
- Tron Curtain) recently was identi-
fied in London as having-been the
man who tipped off Burgess and
McLean just prior to their flight.
“All three of these turncoats had
. tours of duty in the U.S. with ac- ‘
cess to West defense secrets.
THE ubiquity of Soviet espi-
onage activity throughout the
Western world has been demon-
_, strated many times over beyond
: . the least’ shred of doubt.
It is, by now, common knowl-
edge that every Soviet embassy
a is a spy center and that the
° United. Nations is honeycombed
a with espionage agents. "And as
- e this was being written, news wires
carried three more stores which
* underscoré+he.zaint. “t *,
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