ROUND-UP
EXPERIMENT SUCCEEDS
TEEN boya from an Approved School near Leeds, Yorkshire, are among the 211 members of the 7th, (Freda Itißes) Battalion, The West Yorkshire Itement (T.A.), in comp at Sconybridge, South Wales. The boys, who are all Territorial Army volunteers, ate members of the apjatved whool's Army Codet unit. Lieutenant- Colonel B. Thompson, Cominending Offer of the Battalion, says: "The boys have been in the Batiation for about 4 months and are treated no differently from the other soldiers. They mix in very well" He described the innovation as on experiment-"probably the Arst of its kind in Britalu"--and said it was proving to be a preal success,
HIDDEN SILVER
silver was found by n COLLECTION of old Sheffield plate denier when his firul trok over sliver galleries in Charterhouse Street, Cly of London. The dealer, Mr Barry Langford, 32, ex- plored the plice after he was handed an old plan by Mr Norman Atli, director of a firm who gave up the galleries. After some false teaks Mr Langford eventually smashed through some hard- board to be confronted with the hidden store of silver comprising thousands of dust covered pieces of rare old Sheffield plate.
MURDER SQUAD CHIEF
For
CICOTLAND Yard's chief erine detector, Chief Superintendent Alexander Findlay, is retiring at the end of this month. the past three years he tum been in charge of Scotland Yard's Cinas investigation departuent-known to the public us the "mur- der quad," Findlay took over leadership of the team of top line tebeelives from the late Chief Superintendent Willam Chapin in the sonimer of 1955. Chief Superintendent Findlay, 58, has been in He has 18 commendations the Metropolitan Terces for 33 years, and has served as a C.1.3. officer in many ports of London.
"SANDWICH COURSE”
"SANDWICH ourse" in prepartion for n commercial career vices is to start at the London County Council's Bolham and Tout- ing College of Comnirree, South-West London, next month. The alea of this thereonthly business training course is to form a "sandwich" between the college or Service life the men have been Reestomed to, and the job they are taking over. Subjects covered include the evolution of modern industry the nature of manage- ment, and legal and psychological aspects of industry and cam-
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"I know he don't like you taking his picture while he's racing-but I didn't know he'd got a polo mallet on board."
Secret DEATH IN THE CRYPT
Agent
IN the soft light of dawn, a ring of Greek security policemen, sub- machine guns at the ready, stood round a shabby badly-kept work- men's dwelling, No. 39 Lyeureus Street in the Callithea quarter of Athens. It was November 14, 1951.
The front door, the peel- ling paint a sign of poverty, lay smashed in the gutter. In the cellar other police- men, shovels and picks in their hands, werd digging their way into a secret chamber. Through an aper- ture, they could see a wire less transmitter and a man frantically burning docú menis.
An officer called to the man
Ile come out. ignored the call. When the I waiting policemen were ordered "Bring him out," there was the sound of a
By
Lt.-Colonel John Baker White
lovely
The Paymaster
thus especially Atted to be a thir; the second, the political offleor with Elas, and Lillar Calamaro, daughter of a because he could speak Russian rich Halion industrialist.
10 Colonel he was attached Pupov's Soviet Military Mission in Greece as its signal officer.
Thick-set, good looking, with dark eyes that were a mirror to his keca Intelligence. Nicholas Vavoudes looked a typical tough partisan fighter. But he wis uch more than that. He was o
Iatses was in all kinds of black-markots-American nykors. Scotch whisky, English gin-but that was not why I wanted to have a look at him. Behind the
sinde shot in the cham. He Preferred Suicide
her.
After a few minutes the man was dropped out, blood pouring from a wound in his temple. Bundling him intb cli of the radio-detector vans that had tracked down the accret transmitter, the police rushed him to hospital, Dut it was no good. He died Ihren Hours later without
speaking,
Nicholas Varoudes, key man in the Seyjet espionage net- work, had chosen his own way out.
Greek Communist
Through my alson with the Elas parusan groups in Grecce during the German occupation, and with the Soviet Military Mission that went to Athens after the Bberation, I had como
quite to know
i lot Vavoudes.
To Firing Squad
most skilful, and for a time, very successful, secret astent.
When the Soviet Millary Maslon teft Grecca In 1940, Vavoudra disappeared and the security police assumed he had zone to Russia on Bulgaria, Ac- he had rone under- Jusly, cround. It W218 nearly years before he was discovered,
The Network
The network he had bull! 'up about kim contained Some colourful and unusual characters,
facade of the rich playboy-intel- lectual, he was the paymaster of the underground Creek Com- munist Party.
He operated a courier system that brought in the money from Paris via Marseilles, and worked Vavouries in liason with the
Included Nicholas That ring.
of the Belogiannes, a member Central Committee of the Greek Communist Party, * womati named Elli Ioannides, and others.
from Bucharest, that one of his transmitters was in dan
yer of detection. The original tip-of
could only
have come from a Soviet agent in the Greek security police.
It operated two secret radio fransmittersone in the crypt where Vavoudes shot himself,
Vavoudes closed down his the other in a cellar, hidden be transmissions then, wien hind a stone block mounted on nothing happened opened them
but none so unsurd as Deme- wheels, under the Villa Ava, a up again. But the net was cloe-
pleasant house in the garden Ing in on him.
trius Batses.
When, in the Spring of 1019, I went back to Athens a lovely girl, who was
also a brilliant
suburb of Geyphada. A reserve unit was hidden at a nearby chicken farm.
police officer, took me to a party From these transmitters went Intelligence ut the luxurious flat Batses and out to the Soviet
a constant in oraclelou Street. Son of a post in Bucharest
cultured, sficam of information about the about famous admiral, rich,
vain. Baises wre a leading figure Greek and N.A/T,O. forces. in Athens cafe society.
Born in Odessa, he was a Greek
Lawyer without a practice, he senior member of the
economic Communist Party of many years cited a high-brow standing and specially trained journal. His nest wife was the in "underground" work. He wes daughter of a Conservative poli-
Just before Christmas 1950, Vavouder got his first wara - ing, in two code messages
Belogiannes and El Ionaldes wore arrested. Then in October 1951 the security police stopped a ship's steward as he stepped ashore at the Piraeus. In a belt next to his skin they found 500 English sovereigns.
Trail To Batses
The trail led to the playboy Batacs, hiding in an obstrEND, low-class hotel, and he was the next to be prrested. By the
end of the month the pollet detector-vans had accurate cross- bearings on both of the secret iransmitterS.
Before dawn on November 14. they truck. Vavoodes had sent hig last message.
The bullet Nicholas Vayoudes fred into his own brain spared m a long trinl with the inevit- able end.
It spared him also another dawn that of March 30,
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1052, when, in the light of the
head-lamps of three army lorries, Batses_the_rich_play- boy, Arghyriades and Catetimenos, key men in the
spy-ring and radio operators,
and Belogianses fell before
the rifles of a firing squad.
Fa
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Britain starts a great rocket-spy hunt
THE most claborate peace-time Toutor espionage, operation in Britain's history is being planned to try to keep secret the sites selected for Bluestreak, the H-bomb carrying rocket,
Security chiefs are convinced that the Russians will make u tremendous effort to pinpoint the sites because of a technical draw- back to the British missile. It takes nearly two hours to fill its liquid fuel
tanks, while Russian rockets would take less than 30 minutes to get here.
no
This means that there might be chance of retaliation if the Russians discovered the Bluestreak sites and knocked them out in a sur- prise attack.
of
So an extensive system camouflaging the underground launching pits is being worked out by Air Ministry experts. There are
to be many dummy pits and false sites. Even the deep pits from which Bluestreak will be fired will not bo immune to the impact of an H-bomb at ground level.. And the rockets cannot be left fuelled up because the liquid fuela set free gummy: sub- stances which block the pumps,
Scientists realise this is a basic weakness in Bluestrenk, which with cost more than £600 million to pro-
duce and instal.
Koord
Now he's learned, when does
he plan to excape}"
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