#348 | The Cambridge Five Part III | Beer & Betrayal
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The Blind Leading the Blind
By then, Burgess was also working in Washington DC and living with Phil B. As you might remember from episode 2, Burgess was hardly the most reliable of the five. But he was the only way to get a message back to McLean in London. By late May, British intelligence had indeed decided they were going to confront McLean about their suspicions. Incredibly, after Burgess saw the mental state of McLean and his uncontrollable drunken behaviour, he decided that if McLean was going to escape, he wouldn't be able to do it alone. With time running out, on the 25th of May, Burgess bought two ferry tickets and he and McLean took an overnight ferry from Southampton
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