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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.
by BERNARD NEWMAN
THE SPIES AMONG US
MOSCOW HAS SENT 300 MEN TO CAIRO
TO DO THE WORK OF 12... IT'S PART
OF THE NEW DIPLOMATIC TECHNIQUE'
R. KLAUS FUCHS- master-spy for Russin, Hentenced to 14 years in gaol-himself declared that he visited the Russian Embassy in London.
To day, filed alongside his detalls must be the names, addresses, and services pro-
he
The subordinate was told that
should
have
the Riven from "n reliable source," Information to the ambassador as
and should not have produced 11 stolen document, promising his chief.
thus com-
The Canadian trials showed also that Soviet attaches had organised simlior spy rings in vided of other men and wo-tain, where Mr Zaroubin is now many countries, Including Bri- men in Britain who are spy- Russian Ambassador. ing for RussİL.
We know these details are in London, but M.1.5 has no right to see them.
They call that "diplomatic privilege."
Now t us see what else goes under the same heading.
Nowhere has the miserable and frightening care of Fuchs been followed with keener Interest than in Cairo.
The reason for this is your second clue to the new pottern of international expionage.
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Elephantine, now
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Registration Canl No 2481
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs
1. SURNAME-NAME, PATRONYM,
"Fox"
2. PSEUDONYM,
1942
A SINCE WHEN IN THE NËT,
4. ADDRESS
sub-
T should long ago have been ncerpted that diplomalle Immunity, once a precious privt- lege, has been debased to cover espionage, sabotage, and versive propaganda.
The diplomatic bort was once an honourable Instrumenta sealed mailbait containing the embassy's private correspon- denen. It is right thit an ambas- sador should be able to communi. cate with hig Government without the fear of prying eyes, of censors, or Customs officials.
brought over a hundred cases of his country's wines in the diplomalle bag.
£1 now the bag assumes Russla and Egypt had no clephantine proportions. One diplomatic contuels until they ambasador, giving 1 parly unexpectedly became "alles" eluring tho war. Then they exchanged embassies. Since trade and movernen! between the →countries-is-email-e Egyptian Ambassador in Moscow manages comfortably with a routine staff of a dozen.
The Russian Ambassador In Calro, with almost the exact complement of work, has a staff
Middle East centre.
Anacquaintance of mine, posted to | Mo,cow" during the wer, found that soap was li chort supply-and sent his dirty linen weekly to an English laundry in the diplomatic bag.
Such abuses of old-time usage
• OFFICE ALOmlo Itesoaren Establishment, fortell
Do not vine L b) HOME
Bond to Post Restante, Ozford
5. PLACE OF WORK AND POSITION.
Harwell, load of Theoretical Physics Division,
& FINANCIAL CONDITIONS Financially secure, but hap
accepted money for expenses. It is useful to give hi sonoy. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Dotalled material is available in Lho Contro. Born in Germany, 1911. Father a Quaker, Bocame Party Meator, 1932. Fled from Hitlerites, 1933. Took science decreos England. Interned as German, 1939. Released on tachnical qualifications. Naturalisos British subject, 1942. worked on atoale research, England and America. Fow wоnknudsen, lot social, to is Ours. The Director orders that ha ba helped in every may, ågrued to abstain from ordinary Party activity.
Terms and phrases in this reconstructed Spy's Registration -Card-are-knoten-to-be-in-use-by Russia:-"Since then-in The net" means "When enlisted in the Soulet Secret Service.
The Centre" is the spy IO. in Moscow. is the chief of the military Intelligence Service Mosco
When here were complaints that confidential safes in Moscow
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Joe.
A SPY CELL-like the one to which Fuchs belonged. marked MAKE was the Russian contact; John Smith- -10ere Abas the English leader, and the others- cell members. Nicknames only were used in letters, and only Docker knew the identity of Joe. All names are Actitious.
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TOW was Fuchs chosen and groomed for his role as a spy? Most of the detalls aro still secret-but a great deal may safely be told of how Russia has contacted and bribed other technicians,
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Since he has accepted the of "0 Communist principle forceful overthrow," he need have no scruples about spying. So he becomes a traitor to bla own country to serve the Soviet Union. I
The Soviet spy-masters or seldom anxious to employ people who are known ng Communists: they prefer the "fellow-traveller" type of sympathisers. In Canada they turned down suggested recralt named Norman Veall be cause he was known locally an "a Red."
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Two methods
1
ALE Russians have two plan Tu
dard methods of recruitment. Interested in an atomic project, they search for a sympathiser who is already installed in П suitable position.
Failing this, they select a fellow-traveller with the right ---qualifications, and try to get him.
employed in the project.
Did you ever hear of an atomic bomb which looked like a large refrigerator? No, but you may,
This is not an idea of a thriller.
Once enrolled, the new agent finds himself organised within a "cell." Ench enll'is Independent, and he will only know his leader
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who in the only man in the cell who has a Russian contact.
A standard cell includes only four or
Thus the or five people.
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In many cases the local Com- munists spy for Russia without pay. Among the Russian dossiers in M.1.5's possession the "financial considerations" of a Cons
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Thu
At an early slage, the Russlans urke
their collaborators to accept DI "CX- mall sums of money
2 long- penses."
practice. established espionage Once a spy has accepted money, ha 18 In his employer's power, and can be stimulated by black- mail threats should his enthu- slasm wane.
Dr Fuchs, it will be remem-
Under which heading did Dr Fuchs come? It could be either,
Russing wasted no time on bered, wos pald £100-a small but was probably the former. him when he was interned as a sum for a man on his salary, but enough for disciplinary pur- porcs,
German.
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In either case the approach is
of more than 300 In this key might be defended. But when embassies were opened and the
Fucha's friend, Dr Alan Nunn contents examined nightly, it was May, stole precious samples of useless 10 dismiss suspected uranium and handed them neer offenders. They would immedi- writer, but an example of not made by a Russinn, but by an to Russian diplomats, they were ately have been replaced by practical means which Britain agent of the potential spy's own forwarded to Moscow-In 1be diplomatic bag.
'Legitimate'
THE Diplomatic Service has
always recognised "licensed Eples"--military, naval, and air forte attaches. Their duty is to gather information, but as they enjug riiplomufje Immunity they are supposed to use only. Jegin- mate mediocts,
The recent revelationa ot Major-General Richard Hilton, late military attache in Moscow, provide ample evidence that the U.S.S.I. makes no boues about the rejection of such namby- pamby restrictions.
The Ruslans regard all foreign
1
others of their kind.
say, We Kave
That Is to.
Eventually the latest types of immunity to secreta' stolen from combination Jocks defeated the us by Russian sples.
domestic burglars.
The process
We should heed the implied of abuse is not *ifficult:
the possibilities are warning. It is known that the mitters. Diplomatie privitere Russions are experimenting with laside a friendly country provides atomic bombs of a type very
than the for almost cover
Hiro- any form of mueli smaller
shima model; so small that they could be used for military pur poses,
wipe out enemy positions,
pinnage organisation.
His 'Keep out'
ti
to
SECTIONS Rutinn ein- The possibilities do not end
knows are being explored transporting
for
mass destruction
weapons under diplomatic privi lege from one country to another,
At Lake Success
year's
nationality.
This brings us to a point which is known but still insuflelently appreciated; that many of the people who adopt the Communist erged transfer their loyalty from Uteir
own country to Russin.
From 92,000
EACH scent is given a code- ♫ mame, which he always uses never his own. The organisa- lion of the Russian spy cells f illustrated by the reconstruction an actual oil the above of names are fletitious, buy the plan is taken precisely from Sovlet MUST record with great regret
The Russian external spy cell lay-outs in British posses- that during the
system is intensely organised. It sion. Inter-war
has five sections. each of which This, then,
kind of Ss the diplomatic
espionage spies on the other in addition to organisation Britain faces: not a reached its peak at Geneva. its own offensive espionage. A limited number of hired sples, or There are ample signs that this dossier is prepared on every of Russian agents--the direct Bellvity has now been trans- Communist or sympathiser. spying is never done by Russians. ferred to Lake Success.
They merely direct the organi- It details his qualifications and sation and transmit its resulta. opportunities and whether he 19 For their selection of recruits, temperamentally suited for spy they have the range of the 92,000 people who voted Communist last month.
We know that there are large number of cells in operation.
Russians Assum
Russlan
cannot
work
bassit for example, are with this legitimate objec diplomats for that matter, nit endet nff by steel diones, parded tive. Suppose the
However, there is fear in the foreigners 16 Russia-as ping arm oficial. The desert succeed, as they uny,
runics F well. Mr Their outlook suttests that the then of the Luilding at Olawa that they to to war with the Vyshinsky önce proclaimed: "The conver
true that any, vrous tile a chapter of a thriller. Ruritanians. The defending sol- Soviet Union
For weeks or months before he feel free is approached, he is Itussian diplomat might renson-
diers man their mums, radar, ent on the spy danger until the sively exalted by colleagues
unotru ably be regarded as a spy.
Not even the ambassador was eertronle devices. But the ex- allowed to enter the wing which preted aircraft and mcket:
world revolution has become a who are already in the net," to rved as spy headquarters. The hot arrive. doorkeeper of the embassy were
fact!" This sentence explains a 150 the expressive Russian term. Int. Russian Intelligence afflcers.
In the Canadian spy care of 1015, I was disclosed that the Russian Endenssy Ja Oltawa hnuscel the headquarters of five >>RY MINI-- Some of which sped on each other, or on the rest of
the emisssy staff,
The domestle stuff of an cra basy is recruited locally, and always a source of anxiety since an opent may be intralei.
do
Nevertheless, the great cities of Buritania are shattered by atomic bombe-which have been gent, in sections in the diplomatic bag.
Such covers as "study circles," Soviet "friendship societies," and simuler social occasions, offer a man's character and possibilities. their suitable method of studying a
a persuaded that it is his duty If he responds patisfactorily, he
to aid the Cause in every way.
The Russians will be indignant about the Fuchs case; "logic" argues that since their creed is so perfect and beneficent, The punchillous Ruritanians they are entitled to selze and use In Moscow there is at least no hago nefually carried the instru- the world. strain of Indreision, for it is ms of their own destruction, Wha
known that all servants ot which were then assembled in foreign embassles are members enemy consulates or other pre- of the M. V. D., the department mises inmune from police exam- which controls the secret police. Ination.
The ambassador, Mir Zarmubin, was ant humaf involved, Indert, one of his subordinater
severcly repruanded from Mos- cow for showing Mr Zaroubin an economic report which a spy agent had stolen.
*Keep Left" group
Liberal Party looks for its deposit
Cripps figures out a middle-class
budget
Afiles demands Parly discipline-
Manson assumes Liberal hat
KTHE CARTOONIST MAS
TE
World Ceperigal Ex Creesgement with Daßy Herald"
By different reasoning, other nations are entitled to be tough with counter-espionage.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF GERMS
"FLU MINSTER
Beaverbrook
discovers
"un-Brilish
activities*
ATURE
Fellow-travellers
travel out
MEC insists the Tories won since Labour Party only
beat them a
little bit.
MONDAY
we are
B
Betually
What
up against-and how we try to beat it.
-London Express Service.
C. V. R. Thompson Babies Take On Giants
B
the
officials have de-
NEW YORK. skyscraper hendquarters in New York, UNO DRITAIN'S baby cars are cided to accept foreign bids for
selling well again in furnishings. U.S., even although Americans can now buy any British desks stand the best of their own gleaming mon- chance. But there ja оло sters right off the show gone out to 30 other UNO na- Invitations have also
room floor.
Austins are being bought
trouble.
Tiona
at the rate of 600 a month. Intest proposal to help end AOL for water-wasting is the This, says Joseph Dudley, New York's shortage. Angry vice-president in charge of because his no-shave days have U.S. sales, is "surprisingly failed, waler boss Slephen good."
Corey went off to the City Coun- ell with agct-lough policy. It is nearly double the month- Suld he: "Wilful water-wasters
are just like traitors." ly average of last year's sales.
British-made Fords are also ПECAUSE of a woman's tenn- selling at a fairly brisk rate."
city the P.A.Y.E, tax
system
The salesmen who are per- lenged
in the U.S. may be chal- in the courts. Miss sunding Americans to buy these Vivien Kellems, a Connecticut ears told me there are two rea- industrialist, refused to collect sons for the boom, which follows taxes from her workers unless last year's slump of 20 percent for doing it,
the Government paid her a fee over 1040 Baler.
Carefully avoiding
a show- First, Americans aro attracted down, the Government ment by lower prices made possible agents to her bank and forced by devaluation of the E.
the cashler to lund over taxes due. But Miss Kellems refused But more important, perhaps, to give up, and her six months'
is the second reason-a growing work was rewarded. number of Americans are now could eue the Government for The courts decided that she willing to accept a small car in the return of her money. The place of their large cars.
case will produce the showdown Miss Kellemo wants.
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