1951-06-16 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951.

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HERE IS DISCLOSED FOR THE FIRST TIME THE FULL MEANING, BEHIND THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SUPER-SPY WHO ROBBED THE WEST OF ITS MOST COSTLY SECRET

TERSE two-page document now being privately circulated by the British security authorities announces that certain informa- tion about the mechanism of atomic bombs is no longer secret,

This announcement has come ten years before scientists expected it. It is an official admission of the blackest defeat ever sustained in the ceaseless struggle of spy and counter-spy.

But for one almost unknown man-and for the ruthless regime he represents it is recogni- tion of unparalleled achievement.

That man is Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev, alius John Doe, one-time Moscow engineer, lately Russian Vice-Consul in New York. Now he is un- masked as the most successful Muster Spy in his- tory.

Five of the traitors who served under him have been caught and sentenced.

Yakovlev, the Sixth Man-now officially llated by the U.S. police as "Wanted on a capital charge of espionage"-escaped to Russia.

kpy

This

Yakovlev directed his organisation to cffelently that Russian sclentists knew how to

atom manufacture bombs seven months before the first one was assembled.

His agents are known to have penetrated the screen around Top Secret projects on radar and guided missiles. And there may be more 10 come; security investigations into his under- are far from cover activities complete.

It was Yakovlev's highly pro- fessional planning that permitted untrained sples like Britain's Dr. Klaus Fuchs and America's David Greenglans to betray bomb secreta tu Soviet couriers without raising suspicion.

It was his tight grasp on every thread of the spy-network that enabled these couriers--men like the Americans Harry Gold and Julius Rosenberg-to

Operato for years over a wide fold,

Take a closer look at the face of this spare, slightly stooped Russian, who has just turned 40. Do not be misled by the anxious expression, the untidy hair.

This Is the face of a man who has tilted the balance of milltary power in his country's favour and maybe changed the course of history..

In the bar

of

THE first recorded act in the astonishing sequence cloak-and-dagger events set in motion by the Sixth Man was staged in The bar of a small restaurant on New York's noisy 34th Street,

On a mild Murch evening in 1944, two men, an American and a Russian, were drinking after being introduced by a third man who had then left.

The podgy American was Harry Gold, Communist and professional Soviet spy. His slim, fresh-faced companion was Yakovlev, newly appointed

- director of the spy ring for

which Gold served as courier.

Yakovlev was in good humour. The Red Army was taking full *revenge on the retreating Ger- mans. He had just learned the main purpose of his promotion, It offered fantastic opportunities, and this fellow Gold seemed superbly qualified to help him realise' them.

The Sixth Man knew all about Gold's record, Most of it satis- fed him. There was Gold's Russian parentage, his thorough selentine training, and his ""con- dilloning" to conspiracy by nine years of active espionage.

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the agent who managed Fuchs and his four fellow-traitors.... a super-spy now known to Britain as

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Gold's check-up on his new, chief, whom he knew only

as John Doe, was not so easy. The roundish face with the long nose and dark eyes looked. In- telligent, though" "Doe's habit of continually brushing back falling lock of hair betrayed a nervousness hardly suited to this kind of work.

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'But when the Sixth Man got down to the business of the

meeting Gold quickly altered his assessment. He saw him as the ruthless spy commander, case- hardened by years of rigorous training. --

Yakovlev was born in Boriso- glyebsit, a small Cossack town on the left bank of the River He had been given a Vorono. particularly thorough grounding in Bolshevism, followed by five years' training as an engineer in Moscow's Economie Institute.

'Our job'

THEN he had been selected for an intensive course in of espionage, Soviet methods sabotage, and political con- spiracy at the Lenin Institute.

MAN

THROUGH THIS DOOR-

to his vice-consular office ár the Soviet Consulace, 7 East 6lat-street, New York City, Yakovlev took the secret of the azam bomb on the first stage of its despatch to Moscow.

At this meeting, In a public bar, he made his first major move.

Beckoning Gold a Hitle nearer, Yakovlev began to speak in near-perfect_ English. The Americans are making an atomle bamb trousands of times more powerful than any previous "It is our weapon," he said. Job-yours and mine to find out all about it.

We shall succeed if you obey these three rules;

"FIRST-You must do exactly as I order and never alter my arrangements unless absolutely unavoidable..

"I can see the whole picture. . You whi never be told, more than that all part of it you need to know.

"BECONDLY—never “let your contacts know your real name, address or anything about your business, as I shall never let America: you know mine. In that way the

In February 1941, when Russio was still bound by treaty to the Germans who were bombing London, Yakovlev had been shipped to neutral aboard s.s. Ecuador. His offelal papers gave his duties "Clerical work in the Soviet Consulate, New York,"

During his first two years in the grey stone consulate building. on East 1st Street, Yakovlev had been initiated Into the

There was one thing he did workings of the secret cypher not like. Gold seemed for 100 department, independent. There was the

time he had threatened an In a room behind shuttered American who refused to part windows he had served his with the secrets of a new ex- apprenticeship

in coding and plosive. The threat had worked. decoding the cables continually But Gold should never have passing.between Soviet agents in risked strong-arm methods New York and, the Director of without fr consulting his Milltary Intelligence In Moscow, Russian chlet.

Yakovlev decided he would have to be brought to keel right away. The new stakes were too big to risk bungling by subor dinates.

NANCY

Then, early in 1944, he had taken over control of the outside spy organisation which, through his piciiful, handling, was to steal the know-how for making the world's most sceret weapon.

Food for Thought

I'M LEARNING. -A NEW, WORD

EVERY DAY

IT SAYS YOU, SHOULD PICK

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chain is cut in two places should anyone ever try to trace ft back.

"THIRDLY—and this is vital

that your ~~ensure

contacts ever Sttempt to smuggle docu- ments or photographs past

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must memorise what they learn and delay putting it on paper until the last minute before you call for it.

"These G-men are not fools, We must be on the look-out-for them every minute-even: now while we are talking,"

study Yakovlev paused to Gold's reactions, Then he con- Hinued:-

"We will fix our next meeting before we part, and arrange' an alternative should one of us fall to make it. Should this alter-

---AND. THEN DO SOMETHING TO IMPRESS IT STRONGLY ON YOUR

MIND

YAKOVLEV NAME ANATOLI ANTONOVICH

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"A quick coded cable dashed the news to Moscow.

in the native also fail I shall contact bills hidden-

Yakovlev had given him. you in this way....

Locked in the secret room at Next morning the first major "You will get two tickets for the consulate the Sixth Man allt, instalment in the stolen story of a sports event through the post. open the manila

envelope America's £500 million secret There will be nothing else in Exaltedly he thumbed through was on its way to Russia in the the envelope: Three days after page after page of closely diplomalle bag. the date on the tickets go to the written scientific facts Broadway stop on the Astória symbols which Fuchs had re- elevated railway line, Scout ported from memory 05 round for an hour to make sure ordered. there are no signs of surveillance. Then go into the oyster bar there and wait for my re presentative,"

The Sixth Man looked at his watch, decided they had already lingered too. long in one place, and called for the bill.

As they walked down the street he said, "Now here are your instructions...."

The envelope

A FEW weeks later, acting on Yakovlev's detailed orders, Gold was in a Yellow Cab taxi on his way to an assignment in Brooklyn. At that moment the British scientist Dr Klaus Fuchs, also

Yokovlev's working to precise time-schedule, was in his hotel room near the Columbia University-laboratory, where he. Bas

working on the atomic bomb.

Fuchs, a mousy, spectacled man, who had spent his 34 years doing too much thinking and too little living, was licking a large manila envelope. He scaled it and supped li inside a folded newspaper. Then he picked up five books securely tied with twine and set off for Brooklyn.

At exactly 0.15 p.m... Harry Gold, finishing the journey on foot and also carrying a folded newspaper, arrived at the en-

trance of Brooklyn's Borough

Hail

Exchange

PUCHS, whom he had never seen before, was standing there just as Yakovley had

described with the twine round the five books held in two fingers of one hand.

"Good evening, doctor 1 come from John," Gold said, giving the code-greeting.

"Good evening." Fuchs replied. No further words were spoken, The two men exchanged news- papers and parted.

Three minutes later, at the back of Borough diall, Gold naw Yakovlev walking towards him. The two men stopped. One gave the other a light and they murreptitiously exchanged news- papers.

As Gold walked away, his thick wad of dollar Angers felt the

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