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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1850.
CONTINUING A CHINA MAIL INQUIRY INTO ITS SUCCESSES, ITS FAILURES, AND ITS EFFICIENCY AS A 1950 INSTRUMENT OF SECURITY
M.I.5-Three times when
THE security authorities who screened Professor Pontecorvo many times during the last seven years did not know he had Communist relatives in Italy. Newspapermen were able to discover the fact in two days.
When Supply Minister George Strauss mado this admission in Parliament he raised grave doubts about the efficiency of the whole security set-up. An analysis of the Security Servico's record strengthens these doubts by revealing a dangerous patchiness in the secrecy
screen,
Two famous spy cases provide vivid illustration of this patchiness.
The first is the case of Goorga Johnson Armstrong, who was executed in 1861 for selling to Germany details of our convoy salings.
The second is the case of Dr Powell Klaus Fuchs," the scientist who got a 14-year jail sentence for betraying atomie bomb
information to
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ANNA NEAGLE
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Carabeth Cadymes
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FRANK WARTET
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NUNN MAY
FUCHS
PONTECORVO
Chapman Pincher TESTS THE LEGENDARY SKILL OF OUR SECRET-SERVICE
This happened when a jour- nalist In London evaded the censorship by sending a code message to America stating that the cruiser Belfast had been damaged by a U boat in the Firth of Forth.
When the news was printed in America the British security authorities examined All the cables to track down the sender. Among cables were ibeso Gigali cance
Devon - but their was missed!-
"WE ARE GENDING STORY
ABOUT BUBMARINE." "PLEASE TELL HARVARD I WANT MY BON ENTERED." "AS ORDERED, AM SETTING
"IF
ENT
WAG
NOT ATTACKED.”
YOU PERSIST SOME. BODY'S REPUTATION MAY BE DAMAGED." "BMITH COVERS DUBLIN
NOT BELFAST." "UNTRUE THAT ANY SONERS ESCAPED,”
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTIERI
"By the way, Theregend, I hear the "Under Fifth shop stewards want to have a word with you about shone 16 extra lines of Virgil you so kindly volunteered in
Prep. Last night.”*****
FILIPINO'S
OPEN LETTER
TO MAO
An open letter to Mr Mae PAI-Tse-tung by an anonymous Filipino is one of the many interesting features of the
Now Dr Fuchs. In 1947 he was most effective, The case Again the patchiness of our wixbed the Russian embassy in with which the Special Branch security screen London, where he handed over and M.I.5 rounded up the hun- Why was a bricklayer able to bates of atom scarets and was, dreds of German agents planted get hold of the plans? The evi- Kelly's trial proved be -paid £100 for his treachery, in Britain just before the war dence
had stolen them from an un- mo watching was reassuring. there was In America, was caught agent there to spot him. Instead,
In both cases it was painstak- Buarded hut on the factory site. routine security mea Fuchs was able to carry on his
Security arrangements should, were carried through spying works inside the Governing routine precautions which
of course, have advanced a great rigorously. British Secret Ser- ment's atomle H.Q. for at least padd off.
deal since 1938. But have they? vice agents
operating against two mane yours.
The enemy agents had been. Last year I could have stolen He's spics in the Valted It is regarded as likely that sent over-mainly as refugees the plans of a most secret States were detalled to keep he was caught only when the to form two spy rings. Ring No, remarch station from an 111]- constant watch on the German Russians themselves planted 1 was made up of men and guarded Works Ministry hut, cable to New York reading "It's December issue of Hong-
The journalist had also sent a consulates there.
women rated the Germans just as Kelly did.
the last word that counts." Hitler's as "expendable."
The kong's new periodical The chiefs argued that when thesa
last words of the seven cables Orient. too Britich were rounded up the
saw,
make up the" "message: SUB- MARINE ENTERED FORTH, This letter, erouched in. slim- authorities would feel satisfled.
FOUND the hut while walk- ATTACKED, DAMAGED, pie, everyday language, anics. Then the more expert mem- I ing round the
site of
the leader of the Chinese.Com- the BELFAST; ESCAPED. bers of Ring No. 2, which had Government's now jet research
munists to abstain from slign- been built up with much greater station near Farmborough, Hants. The deciphering experts fail-ment with the Soviet Union on care, would be free to do their Through the window I could ed completely on this hidden the plea that much work."
see piles of blueprints, giving message. Even the word "Bel would place Asis within the the names of buildings and fist" did not give them a clue orbit of the Russians. showing full engineering details of the time, The whole site was deserted.
clues to punish him for ceasing to work for them.
Most of the time they learned nothing. But ond day they saw
Spy centre Armstrong visit the German consulate in New York. By YET the Canadian spy trial trailing him they quickly di- In 1940 had revealed that covered he was a spy.
the Soviet Government uses its embassies as apy centres.
A ROUTINE CHECK AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE
ARTHUR ASKEW
Ofice an
ex-Yard
detective
Until recently the British security organi- sation had the reputation of be- ing tho most efficient in
All caught
spy
·
mea
DUT as a result of secret ser- Dvice work abroad, coupled with
When I reported these facts sound Intelligence at
to Works Ministry buildings where- home, the names and theabouts of 36 key members of chief Sir Charles Mole, he can (world In the the main spy ring were known med that the plans were top German hand- months before war began. They secret. book оп the were all caught during the Best
A grent part of the reputation British
British Secret two days of the war. About 500 of
Intelligence who other
had Service Heinrich
pro-Nazis
springs from their sklil at planned to keep Germany in decoding. In World War I, they Himmler wrote:
formed of our weaknesses went quickly broke the code used by "The British into internment with them. the German Navy. They used have brought In-
Many of these minor agents the code of the captured spy telligence work were Britons who had attended Karl Mueller to send misleading Bo mastery the Nazi rally at Nuremberg in messages to the enemy. unique and
w- 1938. The names of those who kirpassed."
seemed too friendly with Nazi officials had been noted by of Secret
Bervice agents. Just routine.
How much this reputation has survived the war? How much of that reputation is due to the fact that inefficiency In secret work Is easily covered up?
the British
It was
Meeting place
URING the inst war they sent, in the code of a cap
Unk-up
The usual feature "Mirror of Opinion" rec
recapitulates a hum- Perhaps it was fortunate for ber of editorials which appeared
men who in last month's Asiatic us that most of the
how came to Britain to spy carried papers.
Without exception, the obvious evidence of their pro- opinions used in this issue re- fession. Those who came as reflect anti-Communist viewa fugees often had too many do- The section "In the Orient" cuments and a too-well-itemised maintains the usual high stan tale,
dard of interest, but here again It is impossible to escape the suggestion that the magazine's. Impartiality is being lost bo- NE man used the Continental cause diehards are beginning, to has two cross-strokes, when he the jury.
form of the letter "," which prejudico the issue by packing. signed his otherwise perfectly. forged documenta. Several spics LOSES IMPORTANCE even carried big German saus- ages.
With sausage
"Conditions in Shanghai To doy" loses author'tative import once partly because of the anonymity of the author, but mostly because generalised
These men falled because they neglected simple precautions. a routine check, too, which led in 1930 to the expul- tured spy, a request for a U boat
ion of Walter Reinhardt and to
to pick up information too vital the capture of his chict spy, Joseph Kelly.
Men of ML5 heard that Kelly, 4 bricklayer work-
When such slackness in rou- statements are made with lock of adequate substantiation.
to be radioed. When the U boat tine is repeated, by the British, sul, it is a fair and impartial
sunk by waiting war-
curfaced at the appointed place what happens? it was Mp3.
13
Quite
appraisal of Communists urban In my judgment, we get three technique, and suggests that all. Undoubtedly
security shocks-in a row. Security Oploer at the Foreign Security. Service has done much ing on a new weapons factory,
But the code - breakers falled Nunn May, Fuchs, and
metropolis, Fon- was spending for more than he superintendent, scrutinises every brilliant work. The defensive earned. They shadowed him, completely to decipher one of tecorvo, visitor through a secret peep hole. screen around our radar secrets and discovered that he was bor- the simplest hidden messages
rowing blueprints of the factory sent out during the last war. and showing them to Reinhardt, Tomorrow: The who paid him.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ONE OF THE GREATEST DRAMAS OF ALL TIME'
FREDRIC MARCH
CHRISTOP
COLUMBU
28
1 Gathered
ACROSS
5 Surung-block
8 Sell
Unsophisticated
11 Slave
12 Fine residence
14 Vex
18 Ardent
1 Concise
DOWN
2 Speak imperfectly
3 Wickedness
4 Term of years
5 Stuck to
Small town
7 Raffle
10 Implied
A toast from her mother
-(Londen Xxpresa Kervice)
well in the Northern
Mr A. C. Scott writes on the technique of the Chinese actor, and illuminates his text with three specially drawn pencil
third and final report sketches.
European Army Plan Maturing
--Washington, Dec. 3. Finns for a Western European Army with German troops in- cluded and General Dwight Eisenhower as supremo com- mander are being rushed to completion today.
The Introduction to Chinese elvilisation Deries continues. with another brillant article, by Dr Cheng Te-kun—A.D.C
Marshall Plan Anxiety
Washington, Dec. 3. European economic leaders will discuss the co-ordination of Europe's needs and those
of the United States with Ameri- Faced with a world crisis on Economic Co-operation Ad- posed by the Communist on-ministration (ECA), efficials rush in Asia, American officials next week, the ECA chief, Mr hopo the 12 North Atlantic William Foster, announced here Pact nations will be ready to today.
sot up
European
ปี
of
unified Western Mr Foster, who has just re~: defence organization turned from a world tour starting next month.
inspection, said that European leaders were concerned about Top defence officials count the future of the Marshall Plan on final agreement on the uni- because of the Korean
Criple fed army when the military "They realise," he said, "that chiefs
of the
demands Pact countries tho
оп Our meet. They are expected to eronemic system will mean con- name the time and place of their
the siderable adjustments In meeting soon. Unit 1 Press.
present programme.' -Reuter
SIDE GLANCES
own
By Galbraith
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
Caples of....photographs taken by the South, Chlos Morning Fost, South China Sunday Post-Herald, China Triton Mall and Hong Kong Tele-
Emphas
Staff Photographers
are on view in the Mothing -Fort - Building
Cerebos
SALT
18 Connect
10 Brink
20 Soprano
24 Faling
25 Bring into being
20 Ceremony
27 Burdened
20 Sways
13 Injurious
14 Matureti
15 Reading-deskt
17 Spry
10 Ousto
21 Concoction
22. Merit
23 Emoluments
SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Comma, 4 Moulds,I 8 Folled, 10. Essay, 12 Picnic, 14 Senator, 17 Lace, 19 Catered, 20 Singlot, 22 Oral, 23 Settled, 27 Revere, 29 Verco, 30 Spigot, 31 Reward, 12. Dirty, Down: 1 Cuffs, 2 Melon, 3 Adept, & Oven, *0 Lascar, 7 Styled, 0 Diocese, 11 Slient, 19 Craters, 15 Emir, 18 Angles, 18 Cells, 20 Solver, 21 Norrow, 24 Tepki, 25 Lager, 20 Ditty, 28 Veer,
FERD’NAND
Dog's Life
Mrs Gray, mother of "Annie Get Your Gun" Dolores Gray, with her daughter at the American star's cabaret first night in London's West End. Dolores Gray will soon be returning to America.-- London Express Service,
By Mik
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