THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 27; · 1961:
Cut the Iron Curtain embassy staffs!
FOR THIS IS THE STAGGERING FACT
LORD RADCLIFFE
MUST FACE
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
ORD RADCLIFFE, the eminent judge who is to superintend the full-scale probe into the Security Services, will have to ferret down every dark tunnel in at least nine secret organisa- tions.
Before he begins to scratch away the encrusted dust which in the Secret Service has been undisturbed by outside fingers since its foundation more than 400 years ago he will find one clearly exposed sign of inefficiency:----
The British counter-espionage during his IWO y care system has repeatedly fabled to London. take
the advantage of
CL I can give him the In the Soviel now. major weak ess spy sysien.
The notorious cases u Nunn May, Fuchs, Pontecorvo, Bur-
In
be con
IT TAKES EIGHT AGENTS TO SHADOW JUST ONE
MAN AROUND THE CLOCK
secrets are slipping through the Service, not only on his recrull- but mont by the Foreign Ofer Baswer meshes,
after
from Korta his return when he The effort should
had already been 1 rtntrated on the few secret recruited" by the Russians, 11 takes right agents 1737172
continuously, which really malter, shndow one
there are 03 carcer And
gs and Miclean, and inst f diploinats
What other obvious Improve
In the Russian menis will stare Lord Radellis lone excluding in the face when the doors of B Russian spics in the United Embassy
the stcurity tunnels are opened Stafes, prove that the Moscow intelligence ants serving as spymasters base their highly chauffeurs, clerks, and servants, to him? successful system on the Soviel bloc-embassies.
THE WATCH
Soviet blog Intelligence inen posing as diplomats recruit the spies, struct them, pay them, and collect their stole secrets, pas ang then on to Moscow thaugh the inviolabi
of the dipiciulle bag.
M.1.5 gould not possibly cope with them all
are
He will find grave defects in the method of recruiting people have for positions of maximum trust. Successive Parliaments rescutely ret themselves against The rereening procedures the dangerou build-up of a hopelessly inadequate. *sceret police." So there Is only one way out-cut the st
embassy of the fron Curtain stuff.
SO EASY
Pontecorvo, the ex-Itallm atom setention at larwell, boast ed that he had been servened six times and came through
The way the Krogers-Ameri eans wanted by the US, Gov- ernment for spying-entered Britain under assumed home with New Zealand passports showed that it is as easy for spies to get in no IL Is 1ur criminals to get out.
HIS TASK
on
Lard Radcliffe has taken the unmelurely, difficult tas; uf davising ways to stamp on these stamping in Meieneles without on the treedom of speech and
the crillets which
security system is supposed to preserve. ine that freedom
of the Binky Yet he had been in contact Scandalous truth with the Russian agents who caso would never have came to
public notice. arranged his fight to Russia,
The M.1.5 chlets have urged channel this repeatedly without sucees. The Foreign Office fears the Kurslans will retalle 'The evidence of almost every cuts in the British Embassy clean as a whistle."
we have where post-war spy case teaches de Moscow.
with
37
issan-kep patient
watch on diplomats.
the Soviet diplomats
and they
will eventually
tead
fot
is Bul
staff really Buch necessary when commnaniuation airplane, telephone, radio is so quick?
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also screened,
SP
Without
And netciency could have Burgess und Maclean were continted unchecked under the cover of secrecy which has never was George Blake, the been lifted in centuries. Communist spy In the Secret
So
London Express Service).
This is the tangled network of Britain's security
Foreign Secretary
Prime Minister and Cabinet
Defence Minister
Combined Intelligence. Committee
Home Secretary
Secret Service
Maval Intelligence
Air Intelligence
Military
Intelligence
Rocket Intelligence
Atomic Intelligence
M.1.5
A major inquiry into Britain's security system is on the way. Whom will it touch? How deep will it go? Just bow tangled the security network is can be seen in this chart. Note how each section has to report on its activities to varying other
bodies.
Joint Intelligence Bureau
A cumbersome plece of
machinery.
And in addition to the sections shown there is the Special Branch of Scotland Yard, which operates with the M.IG mon and carries out arrests for them. Each department
has its own dossier system and its own methods of operation. This sometimes duplicates Intelligence the effort and often results in jealous hoarding of information which another departnicut may vitally need..
London Express Berviér
traitorous agents.
elur at If this It is now Inson had not been neglected Harry Houghton,
the Navy
Secrets spy, could have quickly bren delicted, and from him the trail would soon have led
Lonsdale and the Krogers.
some
LEISURELY
The big ornate embassy, lite of the British security
AL
men measures belongs to the leisurely the security rs1
the believed
Nuv
rets days of the horsed courier and the of the
aleam-packet. With Traitors to be a new type
one typist py-ring deliberately avoiding cut of keeping
Mesraw up to £15,000 a year, Businn willa
saff cuts would and reporting direct compuleary to Moscow ng short-wave radio.
contact Embassy
OLD WAY
Now Houghton has that he was 'controbe
revested
save money.
There is further immediate move Lord Radcliffe can recom- mend 10 ease the pressure on the counter-py men.
He can take a close look at in the some of the so-called
old-established way by
Hussian
4
secreta
"MAINLY FOR MEN INTRODUCES A GAME OF SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
MR.
D
[R. BARNET SHINE has
Renoir in his offico. That is
all I know about Mr Barnet Shine.
I don't need
to know much more.
being hourded in almost every Mr Shine's Renoir is as effective as a
Intelligence agent, offled in Whitehall,
Vasiliye Dezhdalev, posing as STRETCHED
Second Secretary in the Soviet Embassy in London.
Houghton had several meet-
with Dozhdaley, Ings
who To Russia
column in Who's Who. It proclaims him as a person of means, consequence and sensibility. As office status symbols go a te Renoir is a honey.
Tup security men will him that an enormous mass of suddenly returned
information which could be after Houghton's arrest, claim; declarified without weakening ing that his wife was so ill that our defences is being kept secret she needed medical treatment by civil servants and Service
in Moscow.
chlefs,
Lord Redcliffe must surely To guard this information, the ask why the M.1.3 serurily men security net is being stretched that really important falled to shadow Dozhdaler so wide
A LONE BRITISH
POLICEMAN 'INVESTIGATES' MOSCOW
-Looking for material for a book
By SYDNEY PRESTON
FONIC-
"They could teach us thing about liter louts. After Square and there
SOMEWHERE in the the Day parade 1 united
ucros
vast crowd which wasn't even a cigarette end left filled Red Square in on the ground.
Moscow for the May Day parade this year stood
an
Inquisitive British
policeman.
And the passers-by,
a Moscow street gaped at the sight of a uniformed "bobby" posing for pholographs outside his hotel,
Status symbols are hard at work in offices all over London at this minute, projecting their images of prestige and influence, position and discrimination to anyone who looks in.
How's your
Status
Rating?
SURVEY CONDUCTED BY ANGUS MCGILL
I have been tracking somu They of them down recently, are a mixed Lunch and some are more potent than others. Most of them, I should warn you are expensive but then they have a high-powered job
to do,
The job, simply, is to impress,
visible to supply
evidence of their owners importance. Some- times, believe me, this lan't easy Pictures are tireless workers In the field. No successful busl- Acяsman rising young execu- Uve is really with nowadays Desics,.stolus-wise, are very in- unless he has something rather special on his office walls,
I may be an 18th century view of London by someone like William Marlow or Samuel Scott. This sort of thing goes down well with chairmen of city boards. Suggests Roots in the Past. Est. 1702. Noble Tradition of Service.
OLD-FASHIONED
'Potted history'
the
P. C. learn's
Bread
un en-
such an interest. Or it may be Junior Executive chair and a through to the outside world and the make any number of trunk an Ari Union bust. Wax-inult very imposing job called under glane looked nasty a few Abies Excrutive Posturi chair. calls. A red card is
The brochure describes this vled possession. years ago but today such things are cherished again. It must be as "the ultimate In personal nice for them.
scating." The ultimate coats 55 15. 1d. (Again 155. And a PENNY!)
Then there is your desk.
portist. You may be powerful behind ex-War Department deal
༔ ༔ སྐུ་ ་་
VERY SWANNISH
For the really successful boss three telephones are not enough. An intercom is also essential.
The new Intercoms are anal- ler than the old wooden eit-up- and-beg jobs and mich prettier, the cheaper though most of
nearest
but who, ask the conscientious For our Enlightened Execu ones alill make your status-seeker is to know it? tive, Arne Jacobsen, has de-
There
白サウ
deaks of great
signed an even more expensive and dearest quack.
splendour at large in London vice chair to go with the Henry Moore. He calls it Swan and
£5 7. Gd.
on its
It comes
today. I sat behind an empire- building walnut affair in Tot- very swannish it looks tenham Court-road, my elbows ally swivel base. on what seemed like an acre of hide, and felt I was up to con- trolling the destiny of
Westem world.
NOT CHEAP
the
as
SUCCESSFUL
There is one very superior It model that puts that right. The status value of office can operate hundreds of exten- machinery has long been recoge luns, offers high fidelity sound nised. Two telephones on one's and the minimum of buttons to desk are tite minimum, three press. are, better and if they are the new stock ones and cagh a dif- ferent colour, better still.
To play the STATUS GAME start with 100 marks
AN ETTY NUDE-PLUS 3
11 sảu have Two adbrofios, town and countdoors 10
If your fondan addedky te 3.wd. B.W. W.8 Boura d t you bristia bongues, your
műdress la not Hatgi,
Love 16
If you have two bathrooms.
Er you Mava tkrós bathroom), Blond 10 if you have four bathroomBY
<Mustn't overdo it) Läst 10 If your country addros la
KAMEX, BUITay or Kant, it it a Yorkinire, shreathira Wiltshire or the tiebrides,
Take an extra á If you have!
A namus.
A burglar glue,
A cangunlad exte
roof garden,
swimming pool,
An Etty nudo,
A Victorian whatnot,
Gout.
A Dua
An Irish wolfhound.
A racehorse.
An ex-directory telephon
bumbar.
A yacht.
A seion ticket, to Gland-
bourne.
An ulcer.
If you hav#_|
Ocore 5 entr
ATV let disguised cocktal, debipot.
A doskenli diblon,
drogramme. of Bimota
·Bpzmyn on the hallstand.
A Kalafaid.
gold him.
monkay-puzzle, free,
crained frizerator.
A būdaèrizat..... A. Van Desh Pagraduation.
An Annigan original,
A midery repredystion of an antiqua aursione lan- tern.
A parchment_fameshade. A tattooed chest.
Lose & marks such
A NANNIE-PLUS &
If you
Afde.
Drive Lanola
Eat fold woodcock
brankfast.
PINY Dolo,
SACK ET Cautes of M the private banke.
For
it zaur kiri.frland an
mote ri,
· Bbor, 6
If your wife is a top mad
Start 45
If you don't CARE where you live, what you bw, what you are and whist people think of you, Scure 50 ind imove to the top of the class. You won't have played its game, afyway,
Score: Over 200
Your status is so disxy you are dimost out of sight.
A Munning or a Russell Fini also suggests solid, old-fashion-
No receiver to lift you just alt od values. Chap One Can
there and telk. It comes at £50 Trust. Know's What's What,
per station--which means that I One towering new office It cola whacking £258 1.
In you have 10 extensions you pay Modern art suggesta
Holborn (the Daily Mirror) 600. (why that odd 159.7) but, first book. Enlightened Executive.
Unhappily,
hard- for the Foreign Assignment, about his Horizons. Move with the Times said before, good status sym- measures the status of its siff
bols don't come cheap.
by the telephones it allots them. working status seeker, skutus war-lime experiences iTI the Alan Davle abstracts are cum-
Serta mruggle along with problems are not left behind Special Investigation Branch, catly the thing for this job.
Another ego-building desk telephones with blue cards in which lie leaves the office. was published in January and small Henry Moore bronzes. nearby cost £192 156 (that the centre of the dial. This Indeed they multiply. Thero won an immediate success.
The really self-confident man strange 15 bob again). This was means that every call they make are status addresses, status curs,
through a six-foot curve of Yugoslavian goCT
the ofled status games, status food, elatus Now the versatile constable who needs to be bang up to date beech with pearwood vengers exchange.
drink, status restaurants, státus plans a "potted history of a can make a big knpression by
Higher up the scale the staff becks, magazinus, 'Uchavious, P.c Extraordinary Cyell modern police state through the hanging a Samuel Palmer, an good status-sounding woods. Hearn, station officer at Walton- eyes of a policeman,"
Augustus Ex
Your chair can score marke gets a green card in the dial, speech, opinions, or-very la
There are ovan status dogs, FO on-Thames. Surrey, and success-
mode just now, good heavens for you, as well., Manufacturers This means that they can dinl
know that bualness men Author, ful
During his 12-day visit to a Landseer.
like kept calls but musi get trunk help me. I don't think there la gathering was material for a new book.
Russia he talked to Russion
khpurtant-looking chaka and calls through the exchange and such a thing as a status cat, policemen, saw some of
This can rebound, of course, have done their best to oblige. have them logged.
These things are, of course, "The Ruslans were ckled workings of the Russian courts Persons of Jesser sensibility may
the preoccupation of people pink to
me, but they and counted prostitutes in the think you have been making
without much real matur wouldn't lat me direct the Atreets of Moscow.
your great-aunt's attic.
People who have it don't give trafic," he said wistfully, buck
a dorm. home in Surrey,
"They told me there were no The Enlightened Excoutlyd prostitutes in the capital, but I also likes to have a plece of "I tried to see the Russion sow at Jast 50. When they Victoriano rather caroftilly." police chief but I didn't get any- asked me how I knew they were placed in his office, These pices Where. All the same many doorn street women. I said I haven't anticunce that their owner has werd opened to me and experis been a policeman for years sense of humour and anyway HERE. are certain rare minty, and their voleen hush, few great collars in England and a medert enough outlay, to pats, children-or their children-will
* MYTHERE answered all ny
queations without being able to spot them.
orld sublime wines "Now" murmurs Cololiet R. 8. a few more in France. There on a priceless legacy is in the swim. about police work and celne They just laughed,"
Richarda, thay are guarded and cherished,
Today you cari buy Laiode It my veu Victoriam, bied, that have à status of their Now Blond Bucet, you are No famous, benuly was over Laz In some firm growth 150 at 20%. D., 11aus: Drion 69 at prevention
Wherever he went the Russian
vhiyed thore.
clarot and let it the. Let the 30s.ed, Margentix http". Rek paverman, Yuri Gagarin was cage blyd-cages are partiqu pwn absolute, and unrivalled, talking about nectar." the No. i tople of conversation. Larty fashionable now that M When vihtiters talk of 1899 of • You cannot buy these wines. Clates will live 100 years eind yours gaiter over 11. And the member every year they win
-ondon Express Service). | Armstrong-Jones -
shown. 1900 marets · their eyes grow Not anywhere. They exist in a you, have it in your power, för lime wal come when your cost you more.
SED
"I couldn't get any figured
about crime, or vice in Russia
but I learned a lot," he added,
the
has
A Holborn firm has produced Senior employees get red a whole range of what it calls cards in their dinis. This means Executive Seating. There is the that they never go through their Sentor Executive chair and the own exchange. They go straiglit
The
very
150-200 100-150 Under 100
My small piece would like your autograph; Not bad. Keep going.
I know, it's that fourth bathroom thiät din it. Me, too.
Landon Bayrasi Berktes.
best wines are the ones you cannot buy, but...
Lambert, or Chille
Blats you fut
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