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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32
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‘Toe mere existence of the huge FB
fing system bas detertes mans fron!
anuaching Hoover’ totaltarian empire
‘A sluggish trickle of information
about the Brush Emnasty” leakage
continued to reach ue Apart {rom
Dwyer. whe wat soon to lepve, three
members of the Briish Embasss stall
had access 10 the material” Geottrey
vem
{ashinglon, myself and Bobhy. Mac-
Kenaie. the embatsy Security Officer.
‘an old colleague of mine In the FBI
sd
the offic concerned were Ladd.
Lishman. who was then head of the
antiCommunist secuon and Boh
Lamper. » nice. puddingy native of
Ohio whe was responsible for the
detailed analysis of the tase on the
American side We were sill far from
identify ng the source in the embassy
but during the winter of 1949-50. the
nel began 10 close round the Los
Alamos source. The choice seemed 10
bbe between two scientist of great dis
unction. Dr. Peverls and Dr. Fuchs.
<b
Kt was Duyer's lest direct service to
SIS that. by a brilianr piece of analy.
tis of the known movements ofthe
two men he conclusivel: eliminated
Peierls Thereafter. the finger pointed
sunwaveringly al Fuchs
Shortly afier Dwyer had identified
him ac the Los Alamos source. Fuchs
‘1 eal for England on # routine vise
He was arrested on arrival and patsed
{0 John Skardon. of MIS. for interre=
gation Skardon succeeded in winning
‘ne confidence 10 auch an extent thal
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Fuchs oot only confessed ts own part
in the business. but also identified
{rom photographs. his contact in the
Usied Staies, Harry Gold From
Gold. who was also in talkative move:
he chain Jed inexorably 10 the Ronen
bergs who were duly electrocuted It
i& worth mentioning that Fiserhower
explained his refusal to reprieve Eth
Rosenberg on the grounds that. if he
dud. the Russians im future weve
fools women a5 spies. It as wn a
tude worthy of the most pedestrian
fof United States presidents
An the summer of 1950 I recened
a fener from Guy Burgess "I have +
hock for you” he began “I have
just heen posted 10 Washingion ” Fis
foggesied that T shouid put hint up bo
4 few days until he found a flat for
Bimseli This posed & problem In
formal circumstances, I! would have
been quite wrong for twe secre: op-
eratives to occupy the same prety
the circumstances were ‘no! mor
mal From the earliest daxs ou
careers ha intertwined He
soflecied money for me at Catabridy
aver the revolt of the Avis
Schuetzbund sn Februar. 1938" hy
Put forward bis name as a powh
Teerus for the Sower service. a det
which he later repaid by smoothing
‘my entry into the British secre: serv
fee. In between. he had acted a
courte: for me in Spain In 1940 we
had worked ‘ciosely together in S19
and be bad paid me a professional
iol in Turket sn 1948 Our assox
1on was therefore well known. an!
a8 already certain that anv seriou»
investigation of either of us woul:
reveal thete past links. seemed the
there could ‘be pe real professions
objection to him taying witty me
‘The search for “Homer”
Burgess's arrival raised an issue thar
1 could not decide by mysel! Should
be oF shoud be mov be let ino the
fecret of the British Embassy 5
which was ull
The decision to iniviate him was taken
fier T had made two done mover trips!
0 points outside Washington 1 wus,
fold (hy Sowier agen's) that the al.
ance of opinion was that Gruss special
knowledge of the problem might
beipiul I therefore took Gun fils
into our confidence. briefing hin in
the sreatess detail, and thE sunyect
remtined under constant discus
between us My difficulty was that F
had onls seen Donald Macican ithe
leak”) twice. and brefis, an 14 years
had no idea where he lived, how be
lived. of indeed anvihing at all abo
Ine circumstances. Bur it no time
turn fo the ease. 10 explaic. how it
Hood. and the problems s1 involved
The deveiopmeni of the affair was
giving me deep amtiely It was hews
by imponderables. the assessment of
which could be litte betier than puess-
work We had received some doven
reports referring tc the source, wh
‘appeared in the documents under the
fende name Homer. bul litle progres.
had been made toward ideniilving
Tum The FBP was sti! sending us
reams abous the embassy charladies
‘and the snquiry into our men
personnel was spinning itself out end
Jessly To me, this remains the moge
inexplicable feature of the whol
ominaed om pose Bp
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