Cambridge Five Guy Burgess Interview Discovered — Transcript
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- 0:01H so we gathered Jill Bennett the
- 0:04historian for the British intelligence
- 0:05service guy Burgess researchers spy
- 0:08authors a journalist who once knew
- 0:10burges and the Cambridge 5 to show them
- 0:13the interview tell the story of how it
- 0:15came to be so should we take our seats
- 0:18shot by a famed and gutsy cameraman
- 0:20named Eric dmid who captured some of the
- 0:2320th Century's most crucial interviews
- 0:25and said he had a few people he wanted
- 0:28to find in Moscow he says that he went
- 0:31to Moscow for CBC on a hunch he had a
- 0:34number of people he wanted to find he
- 0:35checked into the hotel Ukraine and went
- 0:38for lunch and met a waiter who said I'd
- 0:40like your jeans and he said well you can
- 0:44have my jeans if you give me guy
- 0:47burgess's phone number so he says he
- 0:49went away for the afternoon and came
- 0:51back that night for dinner with a little
- 0:53piece of paper was handed to him with a
- 0:55phone number and he handed the man his
- 0:57jeans and Away you go if you're all
- 1:00happy and ready here we
- 1:02[Music]
- 1:07go the show itself so curious enough as
- 1:10a time capsule the guy Burgess interview
- 1:13the last segment in Moscow last week
- 1:17closeup met guy Burgess and interviewed
- 1:19him in the shadow of the Kremlin this
- 1:21was Guy Burgess when he disappeared in
- 1:241951 at that a passport photo a lifetime
- 1:28later Burgess speaks to the the West for
- 1:30the first time about his defection I
- 1:33simply went as a
- 1:35terrorist I and my friend approach the
- 1:37Russian said could we come in they kept
- 1:39us waiting in Prague for some weeks then
- 1:43agreed everybody considered you and mlan
- 1:45to be
- 1:47traitors what have you to say to that Mr
- 1:49Burgess it's no use me saying that I'm
- 1:52not a traitor that means nothing uh of
- 1:55course I'm not but that's any I who know
- 1:58that the
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