CONCLUDING
GOLVIN
I've talked
THE
to him myself... I KNOW
WHY SOMEONE
WANTED THIS
T
MAN KILLED
Services, and
it S. Serret Frankfurt
THIS mnazing ske
scraper city which is the capital of new Amerien in Europe
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about
has revealed to astonishing secrets The Welk Around I's.
At this centre of the polti- for Europe War struggle
by
national e mmillers of refugees. Some are turned back on gaufed as spus, and others who prove mpat fear Me job re
parachutedl
back in un coli-war inissions,
First take the case of Georgi V. Horunschi,
ot Dealmant
the Novat Army, and bis Ger Dat wife Elisabeth,
the jampell clo
፡፡
K
on
between East and West, I August 1, 1948, and drove p
of East Germany site have discovered:........
Berlin 14 desert
Frankfort,
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1954,
WEB AROUND
They, too, watched
the newcomer, and checked on iris movements.
Khoklov revolted against times wo managed to go to theo Idleness and was allowed to arts theatre." return to Moscow and complete his studies. But he was not It was not until September allowed to resign from the Secret 1053, Uve years later, that the Service. free Russians in Frankfort were
girl
horrified to discover that Georgi In Moscow in 1951 ho met Mueller, allas Horunschi, had Yanina Timashkevich, " became a Soviet agent. He was with dark chestnut hoir, grey trying to work his риканс
eyes, rather pole and no make- hone to Moscow and carn GL
He had up."
known her In pardon by spy work.
their childhood and,
he
M
The US. tribunal which studied, he courted Yaninu. sentenced im heard how hu
large sums and rerelvec{
of
But, when this quiet, serious of Roman Catholic out daughter money. how he had sent Incages written on silk in in- parents gave up her career as a visible ink, how he had taken civil engineer in order to marry photographs,
His reports had shown the Soviet Secret Service that it was up against dangerous organisation in Frankfort, this Russian NT.S. centre.
by
And. in a slub of chocolate tukera across The frontler his wife, Georgi had conerated a photograph of the chief who was running the show in Frank- fort, a quiet-looking, little man known as Georgiy Okulovlen.
Where the US. Intelligence cutight, Horunscht the Soviet MVD (Secret Police) removed hals te from their Ist of Belive agents, But they studied reports, and they showed the photograph of Okovich to
man of their * Busted
own,
Captain Nikolai E Khohlov, ullas "The Whistler,"
'The Whistler'
THERE are many things about
The Whistler" that people, especially women, fud hard to understand today.
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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I assure you, Comrade. that no one regrets the need for reorganisation more than I do."
been deeply into his Nikolai, she told him tha:
not like this secret with just the object of d clearing
up those mystifying work. points--why he was Rent Wext manier → man, why he In-
emminated his wife in
Soviet eyes"
How much has he been Things that haven't yet
He went
military werth to the West? To US been told shout the mystery of heariquarters in Berlin and was Khoklow, the engarette-gun inan
on His friends called him "The telephone whisked out by plane te Frank-
Nikola Ohlebsk] Avenue. because The
l that Mchada fet Elisabeth lay low in the Whistler,"
few Khoklov had an artistic bent. Геори Mountains Maclean took through the Iron
whistle songs weeks and then slipped across He used Curtain with her children.
played
Why this city is perhaps The most spy-infested spol In
Europe
Th 14 rebuilt giyeets, behind
facades, ba
<>IT-
1 x new limil villas and brainwashing camps, this struggle with Jumat lives is going on all the time.
Haz
four
13
concerts. accordion.
When
to
He
Hier's armies
Furtively they had their baby christened by a priest. Some
Soviet senior officer must be paying now for not noticing then that Captain of the M.V.D Khoklov was slipping out of his role and going bourgeois.
Mystery tours
THEY sent him on a series of mysterious tours in Europe in 1951, to test passports and find out which frontiers were easy la
cross.
He travelled in Austria, Swit- zerland. and Holy, depositing Suviet secret funds In foreign banks,
Only once he got into trouble, when travelling as an Austrian and falling to declare to the Austilun Customs on accordion that he had bought nbrond.
Was
The
In February 1952 Whitler**
called to the Moscow headquarters of the th Section (Terror and Subolage) and offered the job of liquidating a Russian who had fled to Paris, but he turned it down.
Instead he became oBleer in Berlin, sending Soviet agents Into West Germany,
Stalin died in the spring of 1953, and the Soviet Secret Ser- vices were tained upside down. when Berla tried to unify them In one Ministry of National Security and Home Affairs under himself.
That grab for power led to his fall, and his lieutenants vanished into the execution cellars with him.
won
on
ди
By
US....IAN COLVIN
Mrs. Maclean
IT WAS ONE OF KHOKLOV'S
SABOTAGE COLLEAGUES
WHO ESCORTED HER AWAY
During his hours of interrogation with American Intelligence officers and Okolovich, I learn that Khoklov made an important die- closure about the journey of Melinda Maclean and her three children to join her husband.
Mrs. Maclean was contacted in Switzerland and escorted out of Europe by a comrade of Khoklov.
This officer worked in the Russian Sabotage Section at Baden, Austria. The route that he took was not that which Western observers were led to believe.
All that Khoklov has revealed on the Maclean- Burgess affair has been studied in the British Foreign Office. Full details may soon be published in an official White-paper on the whole Maclean and Burgess mystery.
her to
#
"When Khoklov came
over
to us, replied the chief, "ho was absolutely sure that the Western Secret Bervices could get his wife out of Russia. For he was not suspect then, and his wife's fat was not being watch- ed in February and March.
"Khoklov was thunderstruck when he was told that it was not possible to get his wife out. "Almost out of his wits by April, ho
thought that telling the whole truth would be the best way of saving her, if the could be saved. By then she was being watched."
I see little hope of Khoklov seeing his wife again.
Secrets fold
IN long nights of interrogation, Khoklov has told Okolovich and the Americans how Melinda Maclean went to join her bus- band in Russia, and who Look her there.
He has told who plotted the murder of Von Papen in Ankera during the wor.
He has told much of the present day that was not yet known about the Soviet Secret Service In Europe that the alljes are tearing the web open at this moment.”
them
Ал
Behind the barbed wire pro- tection of Frankfort compounds, Khoklov is turning over money offers for his story, some ut as much as 25,000 dollars. he scans these offert, "The Whistler" must be seeing the steady grey, eyes of his wife and he must know that the So- viet Police will tell her which offer he accepts.
Ав
She will be told too, I am of whai I take to be an surf,
a inspired Communist smear com~ palm. An anonymous woman in Denmark has come forward to say that she has a bundle of love letters written to her by Khoklov. This looks likn a move to debunk the the frantic husband.
Commitles
drive of the Communist offering do decided Party
the thug plan hospital, saying I had had must only go ahead when the motor accident," he told me. whe
Berlin conference was over,
"A second time two of their Major - General Kruglov
kidnappers were arrested I police K.BE,
took over
So it was not until February the secret
time they services in his stead. (He had 18 that "The Whistler" turned suppose this third
wanted to make quite sure of loltered that KBE. In 1945 up in Frankfort and
the outside the block of flats where m "But Allied security officer at
Khoklov Just walked the Russians live. Yalla and Potsdam conferences,}
into my fat and quite simply he He
What happened then to make told me the whole plot. He had Berla's plans to carried
on his not break up the Westerh cold-war "The Whistler" go back
He could out in Prankfort, and he put chiefs? And what made him, easily have killed me. His thugs the finishing touches to an as when the story was laid for the were ready, the cyanide Kun sassination plan, Secret Opera- first time, pin the blame on the had arrived." tion Rhine, In the autumn of wife in Moscow when he loved?
I asked this quiet, mole-like 1933.
For
he declared openly that little man, who has been burrow- was Yanina who told him "Don't ing against the Soviets since de it
1933, why Khoklov should be sent to murder him, That was his
And when it came to one of them moving house, it was “The Whistler who moved out of lus privileged class swank apart- ment with its three rooms and the Boris
a!
Ko moved the dlugier home
Into
his In the
port of Moscow, "because loved It and because it bad were memories for her....!
wife's
d
the
2
Blamed wife
was
'Silk' messages advancing un Moscow, 18-year basement dat in a plain brick.
اللحمة
given PEORGI was screened,
German papers 38 Georgi Mueller, and found a small feb For the Dulles brofners, Joho at
American ordnaner Foster In the State Department, depot. But within two months and Allan Welhi, head of the Soviet spies had contacted him C'entral Intelligence Agency, there They knew where he have made Frankfort their cull- was.
gel Number One for the Kreme Frankfort, In Secret Service
war headquarters for Europe.
Thus this city has become tar-
found his
the way to Russian community
growing dully und occupying new flats in the city. Every Rupan or East Euro- He went on to the newspaper 13 wh
He free
Eust and
100-mile-long
ally or enemy,
agent.
ur
ย
old
with a Nikola Joined
u queriiła pre-revolutionary house
and not a very group of Moscow artists to aldr. dark hall
attractive entrance." ish in the suburbs.
His neling qualilies got him Inside, a mixture of old and special work, In 1042-3 he led new, the television set und the
clock, after parachut- grandfather
1 marble-
partisan groups.
ing behind German lines, and topped buffet, a rug or two,
successfully passed himself off zinc bathtub that is hung up on German military police the kitchen wall by the Как officer with le papers.
ຕະ
slave.
He was taken up by Berla's "We did a good deal of work leutenants
promising in our home ourselves, put down no, laid tiles on the kitchen
Secret Service man.
At the end of the war he was walls, put up some partitions.
to assume
and left
"My wife preferred to do all housework herself, and
and
four years doing the
a new liked reading the Russian
man. German classics. She disliked Soviet wartime and spy stories. Some-
Cours through the Possity and discovered that it posted ko Rumunia
frontier between was run by Russian oppments there for West is a potential of Communism, by the N.T.S. nothing, just
double or National Liberation move personality ህ። another
Thal showS that the surled mil He thiscoveredt a lot else Service thinks ahead, does not teams of the about his fellow-Russians
In hurry itself.
The bavilers are
by the screening!
ront.
the ColonyE
NOU
SOUT
RNIN
KONG &
LYX-SOVIET Ambassador Pon.
yushkin
from Washington, now a major-general of Secret Police, discussed the murder plan with Khoklov.
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answer:-
spotted,
into
our deserters
Sabotage
myth of
re-
LL the same, I would
commend these busy, treo Russians in Frankfort to broad- cart the huge money offers that Arc being made to "Tho Whistler."
I have spent a good deal of time in testing the omelal ex-
For news of that might planation, and as the American "Our organisation has ideas interest Colonel Okun, in the Central Intelligence inen In that are dangerous to the Soviet Baden villo where he plans Frankfort are cagey, 1 set out Government. We are working European sabotage.
It might find the chief, Georgly back
home country, even Interest
Major-General Okolovich, the man he was sent helping
from the Alexander Punyushkin....... At to murder,
Soviet cause,
Moscow' centre of the wes He was not at the top flat in "We broadcast to them, Wo A fot cheque for 2 Soviet the Russian block. The flat next send over leaflets by air and sea. major-general might be better could not refuse it," sold
(nameplate Litvinoff. We contact people in Russia, than a bullet in the neck like "The Whistler" "or my family door would have been in danger."
accent Russian) said that the and those who volunteer can be Berla, Okolovichs were away.
The parachuted back to work for He picked two tried old Ger-
baker said they
We have lost four had stopped freedom, for the Job, their br sd. man Communists
parachutists in the Ukraine, but had then Moscow-trained in rough-house, Ju-Jitsu, and cape.
on
At the Possey printing house, there are others. where the free Russian news-
IN the night club in Frankfort
where the Okolovich is a dangerous man
Russians fore- poper is produced, several of to the Soviets in this cold war. gather, an elderly ex-officer is He had exact instructions to Okolovich's associates frisked me I asked him the question that playing on a balalaika, at my move in
Frankfort
in a with their eyes. They went out every woman in Britain would request, the wistful song "The roundabout way, separating from of the his henchmen. He studied
to and telephoned like
have explained: If wide sloppes_around.” There the about me, and then they brought Khoklov
loved his wile 90 are tears in his eyes na he plays; photograph of the chief in Frank- in the chief and he took the much, why did he change sides "for," he "Russia is stni fort. Georgly Okolovich.
question marks out of the story, and leave her, and then Impli- my country." "The Whistler" moved in, "Once the Soviets tried to cate her in his explanation to Everything worked. The Central kidnap my wife near here by the world?
room
_myg
The Frankfort cold war goes on counting its casualtics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S
Mrs Crawley, he now 83,
and
as a kindly octogenarian
widow with a mind still strong and
•
RING
Fifty years ago it
was given to Mrs Alice Crawley, who today, at 83, talks of the years she spent as secretary to the Lady with the Lamp.
For the Lady of the Lamp the interview had been a trial. "He looks so fierce," sho said. "I was frightened to death.” In her thirties she had been ready to dety or enjole the entire War Office; but Kitchener was some- thing new in her experience.
Another soldier came to South Street, young Richard Parry Crawley, the future colonel, now a subaltern, who had all but lost his arm fighting the Boers, He and Alice were much in love and eager to marry.
of Colonel nimble. Richard Parry
After breakfast, which sho Crawley who ate with good appetite, she fought with dis- would get up for an hour or so tinction 翅 the and go out on to the balcony in Brer and 1014- her Ince cap and dressing gown 18 wars, lty- to feed the birds. Because her ed in Florence sight was failing she could not Nightingale's tell the difference between house
10, sparrow and starling and had South Street, to ask Alice which was which, Park Lane, and zorved her
By eleven she was back in private secretary bed, leading against pillows and companion listening to Alice read from from 1900. or The Times. For ninety minutes thereabouts, until she would take in shipwrecks,
But how could Alice leave 1904. In those foundation stone layings, Boer
South Street? Miss Nightingale days she was War peacemaking and Parlia- Alico
The Cochrane, mentary debates. On the latter agitated her visibly. When this needed her.
subtle old daughter of
a her comments
spinster divined what was on and happened she would change the Alice's mind. "Forget Derbyshire Toryish.
about subject abruptly. How was the me," she said in effect. "Your family who had been friendly
how were There was another reading Park,
the shopa sweetheart with the Night- session
has been badly In the late afternoon, looking, how was Alice's brother wounded. His need is greater London Ingales for decades.
this time fletion or something Arthur coming along THE ring is strikingly
at the than mine. It is your duty to Sireet was a solidly No. 10, South
biographical. Or the College of Arms? handsome. It has a tower of a house, four floors, would talk, Alice's questions
be at his alde. Marry." with attle and basement as well, about the Crimean heart-shaped emerald One of the first acknowledged answered promptly and vividly. for callers after the sergeant war she Alice was the second slove within a double border of bachelor women of Victorian smaller emeralds and dia- society, MISJ Nightingale had monds. It glittered in a silk- lived there, on a lesse bought lined case on the chimney, by her father, since 1965. piece of Mrs Alice Crawley's sitting-room at West Park, S.E.9.
Mrs. Crowley in the garden of ber hocm. On her finger the wears a heart-shaped ring giren to her by Florence Nightingais,
T
There was a sizable staff, In- cluding
sergeant A
commis-
were tart
As she talked the white wall commissionaire. It was she who, ed bedroom with its vased daffos, after consulting, Miss Nightin- dils and shelves of Blue Books gale, had to do much of the Street faded and dissolved. The years rolled back, Florence Nightingale was: again, the trans- forming angel who des scended in the autumn of 1854 upon the stink-
Kitchener Francis
ing hospital barracks Martin
*t Scutari.
Was
So Alice Cochrane left South and became Alleo pollie shooing away. Crawley. She was affectionately One afternoon the remembered.
When her wergoant breathlessly daughter, Diana, was born a announced that Lord christening present camw from
South Street: down
pearl-handled below and asking to baby fork, knife and spoon. see the Mistress, Miss There was a card. "For Ittle NighUngalo was told, Diana, with Florence Nighün- thought for a moment, gale's love and blessing.” then said yes, to was
Diana is how the wife of Major-General Alan C. - Dun,
She showed it to me with elenatre on the ground floor who acted as a first' sleve against genteel pride. "I wear it
importunate callers. Minialers only on special occasiona of State. hobnobblag dukes, now," she said, "because the sociable bishops, makers of inscription on the inside is. patent bandages--all wanted to and war hospital administration to be showri up; but first of all
meet the heroine of Scutari and Kenerally, Florence Nightingale Alice must brief hor, v Mrs Cinwloy's, other 'daughter, ' beginning to wear away." boast about it afterwards, Mis coaxed or bullied men in high' quickly, on what Kitchener båd
In cleaning up Scutari
Nightingale saw as few of them office,
Sylvia, a lieutenant-colonel The inscription is still as possibip. Infirm and old, the rod
cut through jungles of been doing lately,
in the WHAC. Her son tape, made innumerable.
Ambrose barrister, is # logible, however. It reads: suffered strangers anything but petty enemies, "There were to Ten minutes later. Klichoner iterionant-colonel (ret.) of the "From Florence Nightingale, gladly.
many...atupid people who was ushered in, What passed Arillery Regiment, to. A.G. The Lady of the Hor while-walled bed sitting wouldn't things dong" between them Alice never kriów.
The Lady of the Lamp would But, she recalls that on his way have been glad about all this. Lamp gavo her the ring, and room at South Street
out Kitchener, mling his oyes She approved of the Britishi ¡et charuslerimically, said: "She's Armyssätter, she had minded ite
WE OF
with it a cheque for a hun- the first floor. Here she spent told Allée.",
the net fifteen years of her life,
dred pounds, on the eve of never going out, and mostly in Sometimes the memory her wedding fifty years ago, bed, Marn Crawley: runenberg the old frustrations and fights † Wonderlikekowe (@verything" "ways.