Comments on: The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town

By: Teresa Cherfas

Teresa Cherfas — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:32:09 +0000

Hi Rob, we love this post and would like to get in touch with you, please. It’s in connection with a documentary film we are making about Burgess.

By: Megan In The US

Megan In The US — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:17:37 +0000

VERY interesting indeed! I do have a question….The paragraph below the video clip of Kim Philby says he had an affair with Melinda MacLean in the USSR. How did she get there? Did she (& her baby) join Maclean and Burgess – if so HOW-WHY? I hoped there would be something about her after seeing the heart wrenching photo of her leaving the hospital. I’d like to know what happened to Melinda….did she know…was she able to move on…?
Thank you

By: Angel Priddy

Angel Priddy — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:06:24 +0000

I really enjoy reading through on this website , it holds wonderful articles.

By: mag Lovell

mag Lovell — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:58:47 +0000

Am reading Ben Macintyre recent book. Am in Florida back in a week. My problem with Macintyre is that it stipulates Maclean being tailed to Victoria Station on the Friday be defected. I am sure he was tailed to Charing Cross on the 17.19 to Sevenoaks. They stopped following him then believing he would not abscond at the weekend. So what a hoo ha on Monday morning when he did not turn up for work. The importance of this seemingly trivial event is that it may make the reader doubt other facts within the Macintyre book. It is actually an excellent book. I would like this train confusion investigated. Victoria Station is not as near to Foreign Office as Charing Cross.

By: Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:13:28 +0000

My life of Guy Burgess Stalin’s Englishman is just out and answers some of the questions above. Do contact me at lownie@globalnet.co.uk with any comments.

By: Thomas Rees

Thomas Rees — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:14:06 +0000

Guy Burgess was my godfather, and Goronwy Rees my father. I wonder where on earth you get all these ‘fascinating’ details which you report. Talk about Chinese whispers. They are a pretty shoddy representation of the truth, since you and nobody else knows as MI5 will tell you. Perhaps fiction is more your forte, given to a telling turn of phrase. Pull yourself together.

By: Nic Houghton

Nic Houghton — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:57:21 +0000

I was a young diplomat in 1975 having just joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Some friends and I had decided to journey up to Edinburgh to see Scotland and England play rugby at Murrayfield stadium. I was charged with hiring the car. I found a small independent firm in the Queensway/Bayswater area of London. When he found out where I worked the owner of the company related the story of how he was responsible for hiring the car to Burgess and McLean. He could still remember the license plate number!

By: Peter Parmigiani

Peter Parmigiani — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:51:36 +0000

I wonder if you can tell me where you found the photogragh on page 9 of this article? The one that says ‘this would have been the view in 1951 with the G Parmigiani Figlio Ltd on the corner of Old Compton Street and Frith St (my parents)

Many thanks
Peter Parmigiani

By: John Mepham

John Mepham — Sat, 24 May 2014 07:02:09 +0000

Very well researched article. I enjoyed all the detail. And was surprised to learn Maclean went to Schmidt’s because I remember this place as a child in the late 1950′s. It was a favourite of my parents.

By: Anne-Marie Cole

Anne-Marie Cole — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:15:57 +0000

Very interesting blog and pictures, some of which I had not come across, it really is such an amazing story.
I made a radio 4 Archive Hour for Radio 4 in 2001 called Spies Like Us which you might like to hear on the Radio 4 Archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/cambridgespies/7815.shtml