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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 27
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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)
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Date
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