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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 27

50 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 50 pages OCR'd
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il any guests ey could go second’ rode, "PR I for she had the third room on m. She has been brought her ow: e aitehen eo cope any in, up 4s a Russian mother could not better with her children Moscow than she had in 8 when At first, Melinda had no fone help her in the fat, bna indeed the place was so all that phe hardly needed any elp, But after some time she was ‘allowed @ part-time maid. drawn from the oficial Soviet Organisation that provides ser- vants for foreigners. This is also a convenient means of “Keeping foreigners under sur- veillance, Melinda did the snooping her. sell in” the Gtate stores in Kutuzov Place, wearing a head scarf like other Russian house wi her age. mas for this _framped, monotonous existence, Ww! neither would have tolerated, q lured. in the West, ‘hat Donald bad betrayed every ee major Western Secret to wi) je had access, that Melings 34 Sacrificed the gracious life rer ld have pought mmation from her’ hush. hy th§n they - wilt ever Tecelve frém Philby, yet, sy comparison, they have rewarded him aniser- Melinda’s mother, oval as yer. sent regular parcels of the family from clothes for ali gio or al gland and America. AS a Te. sult the Maclean children looked ' more American than Russian, So few... Moscow, Melinda t und handful of “other “Brtie nt expatriaves wind . ages. Cven more so than in the old diplomatic days of the past, ‘ere always r e same, and there were far fewer of them, Conversation was TeKutgitated, the same views were expressed, and] ri ressed, the sam ries presiea They ‘i cd pe Pag or the future. but in the drab mediocrity of resent, Sometimes ther would disctss Is 1 would ent, celebfa- tlons they would enjoy in Paris + Russ DeLoach Mohr Bishop or Rome or other European Casper ____ capitals “when the revolution P Sopies” when all the world Callahan wdhid' be Communist, -* Conrad hey would reveat again snd Ontad —— expin” how they fooled - - Felt evgryone; they did not adh a they bad also fooled than = * Gale selves. Their conversation dt R the unreahty of thelr lives. t tWaltore _screcies Nosen daha? 222 wy couand_& tiropmed ay deoett Si ‘eaally Sullivan —___ See dia ie hes ESE mien Tyg Gren, allowed his own smal And what then? after all Trotter —_____ Voika car and used it to drive vere ail expendable. Woi voor ones ite god ime eaten Tele, Room Dromise and performance jn the of allowing. even encouraging. Gandy Be areaghedateativ" gy (hehe, aha s Ze v 5 a Melinds: Surely her tuture had, SHE. Bs, ha Burgess ? thmething | ag tit Pemesr a And if the traitor deals only was virtually misroscople with | Behe ae betraved, five” et other Wi relugees who, in 1 other circumstances she might Tete A eae, BF. Drecariene mga ecessarily have wished to i can (be ue postion on ie q aitor’s wife It was into this ittle circle of i future ? Convers ves ooh tusapbointed Jeny to tae Gan reeumed fommitied Left-wing: fournattsts, pe Hae here kin Bue hat Kom Philby arrived trom Saw more and more of the Beirut. His American Wife + Macleans, This was to be ex: Eleanor foimed him shortly | pected : there were few other terwards. H ‘uropeans he could sec, and i althourh he and Maclean were af ry if. . | very different.in character they a Maclond geome Eines fe a both b 7 bateune iD 4 le ani ald ha een, patriots to meet Philby when be. Of the Foregrencouepartments Teached Moscow. -", ~ ‘ b Maflean and Philby hod haa | Important of ait Hey bad both few direct contacts in the pact | erve uss ut Philby’ was, in fact, the | {| pond Man" in the Mactean | Quarrel Burgess Miagection, a ad | shington Post ena Maclean escape by But tn Moscow, Philby quar-i8 Herald Warning ‘him that hig itterre- relied with onatPy 4 Ration was Imminent. The two married couples nad who). . Sccused him of still working forthington Daily News the British. From that time on {n common the fact that: both the only Maclean Philby saw°"iné Star (Washington) ____ women Ametran Pais, Bote Fe nese gS, And irom Melindaiday Star (Washington) Nas nota Communist! and she Of her worees and feat ewe (New York) reseated her husband’s lack of To Melinda Maclean, Kim . frankness with her about” he Philby must. neve a ebeneRNews (New York) espignage activities for Russia. eferyihing a nusbend ekg Ofce nal Maclean re bd except faithicl rk Post Blank ag? net, BS ts Md nice. fons 8g, When Dondtdy York Times fsgtssing the past "if they eXaspevated | her with Bi hadn't caught up with Kim, Grnking bouis. his outbreaks of (Baltimore) ~ violence, she had remarked toy HW Id . S friend: “Y wouldn't mind any !¥ World [vou would be Lady Pauiby now. ey Leader onaldenther, is a eee The Wall Street Joumal {pat Melinda’ would Bow | be The National Observer ~ diplomatic “parties, the People's World $f, 2iamat receptions ~ in —, Cope’ World —_____ foreign countries would now be *Spstead, she had her dreary fe tn Moscow. Her husbana was by this time impotent, her childgen were contemptuous of (x + Phere seemed no one from whon} she could draw comfort Asteach year passee—¢ne ¥alue] of her husband to the GaeeGs | would “necessarily diminish. Should the Soviet ever seck a thawing of the cold war. Pee. Examiner (Washington) eee Date DELETED copy sewp —. - . °Y LETTER PER FOIA amy: JEST SSSA TR ge ee Se Late at 2 A ne ate 8
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