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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32

121 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 115 pages OCR'd
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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 Brooding castles on the Rhine. Intimate evenings in a romantic Pangcalé Hours Spent caught up in the vital and exhilarating aimosphere of baa ‘Your twst ghmpse of a picture-post harbour in Sardinia Happy days in Londontawn, ‘These are the things droams are made of and memories, 100. when you let dreams become a reality. Impressionable moments, that remain with you forever. making you @ richer, tulle. more interesting person for having experienced ther. | | ' I, 7 memory than a dream! 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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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