Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 39

124 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Cold War & Communism · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 123 pages OCR'd

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" collaborating on an article for 2 national magazine in the middle 1930's. cee eet AIR te CPN MRE REA OUP FOR RELEASE IN AFTER “ON NEWSPAPERS OF MONDAY, FL: 41987 FROM THE SENATE int vat SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE .@) . ‘ WASHINGTON, D,C,--The British government received intorn back xo early ae 1939 that a Communist agent of the general description of Donald MacLean had infiltrated the Foreign Office, Senator James ©. Eastland (D- Mies.) chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, said today, The original information came from a former Soviet intelligence officer who did not know MacLean by name, but described him as a "young Scotsman who played around in the artistic world." MacLean and cuba 4 ee lena. ess, another young officer in the Foreign Service, ee a fled England in 1951. Both are reportedly in Moscow as advisers on Anglo- American affairs to the Soviet Government. Each had served two tours of duty in Wachi:gton, D.C., with the British Embasey. Diackean recently was interviewed by a British newsman In Moscow. 4 y Senator Eastland said the incident is described in the latest publication of the subcommittee, Part 28 of Scope of Sovict Activity in the United States. The publication also contzins the testimony of Slowodin Draskovich and Bogdan Raditsa, who gave information on Tito's Communist government in ee Yugoslavia, . , . The former Soviet intelligence officer, General Walter Krivitsky, geve the information in confidence to writer Isaac Don Levine when they were 4 Levine said in his testimony that General Kriviteky told him thet while serving as an intelligence agent in Paris he was informed that the Commutss had spent $200, 000 to infiltrate two men in key positions in Great Britain, ° One of them, a man named King, he said, was in the code room of the Impertal Council, The other was the young Scotsman in the Foreign Office. When war broke out in 1939, Levine said he felt justified because of the Hitler-Stalin alliance in breaking Krivitsky's confidence. Levine went to the British Anbassador, Lord Lothian. He said Lothian was skeptical at first, but decided to foliow through since Levine Nid come with an introduction from the / — a

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" collaborating on an article for 2 national magazine in the middle 1930's.

cee eet AIR te CPN MRE REA OUP

FOR RELEASE IN AFTER “ON NEWSPAPERS OF MONDAY, FL: 41987
FROM THE SENATE int vat SECURITY SUBCOMMITTEE .@) . ‘
WASHINGTON, D,C,--The British government received intorn back xo
early ae 1939 that a Communist agent of the general description of Donald
MacLean had infiltrated the Foreign Office, Senator James ©. Eastland (D- Mies.)
chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, said today,
The original information came from a former Soviet intelligence officer
who did not know MacLean by name, but described him as a "young Scotsman
who played around in the artistic world."

MacLean and cuba 4
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lena.

ess, another young officer in the Foreign Service,
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fled England in 1951. Both are reportedly in Moscow as advisers on Anglo-
American affairs to the Soviet Government. Each had served two tours of
duty in Wachi:gton, D.C., with the British Embasey. Diackean recently was
interviewed by a British newsman In Moscow. 4 y

Senator Eastland said the incident is described in the latest publication
of the subcommittee, Part 28 of Scope of Sovict Activity in the United States.

The publication also contzins the testimony of Slowodin Draskovich and
Bogdan Raditsa, who gave information on Tito's Communist government in ee
Yugoslavia, . , .

The former Soviet intelligence officer, General Walter Krivitsky,
geve the information in confidence to writer Isaac Don Levine when they were

Levine said in his testimony that General Kriviteky told him thet
while serving as an intelligence agent in Paris he was informed that the Commutss
had spent $200, 000 to infiltrate two men in key positions in Great Britain, °

One of them, a man named King, he said, was in the code room of the
Impertal Council, The other was the young Scotsman in the Foreign Office.

When war broke out in 1939, Levine said he felt justified because of the

Hitler-Stalin alliance in breaking Krivitsky's confidence. Levine went to the

British Anbassador, Lord Lothian. He said Lothian was skeptical at first, but

decided to foliow through since Levine Nid come with an introduction from the / —