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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951.
THIS IS YAKOVLEV
who showed up the flaw
in counter- espionage of the West.
SIXTH MAN
got away
AN IMPORTANT CHINA MAIL SERIES
Coverings
THE
SEAT OF POWER
TUDEH
"I'm sorry you can't see Dr. Mossadeg—he's lying down.
London Express Service
ENDS WITH A WARNING ON THE PRICE BY ANATOLY ALEXANDROVICH BARANOV WE MUST PAY TO GUARD SECRETS.
TWO British Embassy officials, an
diplomat and a younger man, were from a boat on a lake outside Moscow.
experienced carp-fishing
In another boat a few yards away were the two NKVD secret Soviet policemen who had sat behind them at the Bolshoi Theatre the previous night.
As one of the fishermen pulled up the anchor one Russlan leaned forward to get better view. "What does he think we are doing?" the young diplomat asked.
"I don't know," said the older man. "The Russian au- thorities spend millions of roubles just to have us followed around, And it is done so crudely that we always know we are being followed. There seems to be no sense in it."
That was live years ago before the spy rings organised
by Soviet diplomats in Britain, America and Canada were un- covered.
Now the Rus- sian reasoning bohind the NKVD's strange aclivities is for- rifyingly obvious. il goes this way!—
Soviet diplo- mals broad are Retting involu- oble information 011 the atom
bomb, radar, and other Western
defence secrets
from foreign
Communists
THESE ARTICLES
by Chapman Pincher
have been based, on
official verbatim
O
I Spent 3 Years In Soviet Slave Camps
Was
my
THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE, WHO FOR PERSONAL AND SECURITY REASONS IS COMPELLED TO USE THE PSEUDONYM OF ANATULY ALEXANDROVICH BARÁNOV, WAS FOR 11 YEARS AN OFFICER IN THE RED ARMY. HIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN ORIGINAL BY WALTER KOLARZ
Asiatics
themselves,
But
and
were
Hunger, cold and intolerable living conditions did their job thoroughly and mass epidemies began in the camps. The num-, ber of sick reached forty per- Even cent and kept growing. our camp doctor got scurvy,
men
Before long came the first cases of pellagra, both and women, and the numbers kept growing every day. ad- Pellagra
is on illness that is
ofted
met with rarely even in the
NE day in August
1939, when I returning to regiment from a short leave in the neigh- bouring town, I was five hours late. A fortnight later a military tribunal to three sentenced me rears of corrective Jabour. alone-the so-called central backbone of the camp reports of testimony given before and On the following day I was sector of the Kuybishev build- ministration
more cruel than the guards Soviet Union, and means that during the trials of the atom spies, and passed on to the police and ing project.
More than fifty percent
the body is completely exhaust- on other documents to which the writer transferred to a prison in
and unable to digest any has had access. All reported conversa the town of Penza, which the prisoners were
the Kuybishev hydro ed Kalmucks, Kazakhs electric stallon for which all food at all. Under camp con- tions are quoted direct from, evidence.
Eastern part of Uzbeke, this series 18 in.the
ditions all people who developed The Importance of
and others. None of them knew als forced Jabour WOS widely recognised; it is the first entirely European Russia.
any Russian, and all of them mobilised was never constructed, this illness were certain to die. factual reconstruction of the technique
suffered badly from the cold, in October 1040 the Soviet
Meanwhilee a representative of Soviet sples. It is a warning of the
with the starvation Government decided to abandon. coupled the
of the Ministry of the Armed vigilance necessary to guard against the
The the
project and
scatter the Forces had arrived in the camp. operation of similar espionage networks,
Was
prisoners employed at Kuybisher Paying no heed to objections over a number of other camps. raised the During a whole year-between mar
mandant "he ordered the con- October 1940 and November struction of the airport to be 1941-1 passed in quick succes accelerated. The camp com- sion from one camp to another, mandant submitted, and in-... cach time travelling hundreds of structed the medical officer to miles,
release from work only a fixed percentage of the total number of prisoners, irrespective of the actual number of sick. Many people
also
Documents But if they were continually
now held by the Cassel
followed obviously
they security authorities
prove the separate spy rings would never date contact their that agents,
operated by the Consular officials are organised into one interna- tional network controlled by the Director of Military Intelligence, Moscow,
Our security police will there- fare shadow all foreigners--and especially foreign diplomats to prevent them getting Soviet secrets from traitors,
Safeguard
Switch...
camps. among them that of other nationa
After
thoroughly un being searched I was taken to
of about conditions in the cell-a small room
death rate bunks 47 square yards with
bucket double along the walls and a
A lifes. for excrements at the door. There were about 80 people in the cell. Once in 24 hours we were taken
15-minute for a
the walk. The remainder of
Our camp was surrounded by day we spent in the cell; three rows of barbed wire and packed like herrings in a bar consisted of squat black hute, rol.
with the cook-house in the con. middle of the camp. I
Our daily food ration
Barbed-wire
or-
250 miles north-
by
camp
ComTM
totally unit for any work were thus sent back on strenuous construction jolys,
Death Camp
Finally I found myself in the Vytegra camp on Lake Onega, sisted of 14 oz. of bread and minded one of a huge human in northwest Russin, where the prisoners were engaged in the In addition anthill. The only fumiture 1⁄2 oz. of sugar.
#bullding of an extensive canal we had soup with a tiny piece tho huts were three tiers
with system. From. Vytegro I was of meat or fish, both for lunch bunks, two huge tables
middle of the moved to the death camp of and dinner. Starved, suffoca benches in the ing because of the lack
Only Gryazovels, of hut, and a tiny stove. ventilation, we hoped for one camp officials were issued with east of Moscow.
No wonder that the mortallly thing-to be transferred as blankets and pillows. The
We were put up in the village figure began to rise sharply. By soon as possible to the camp dinary camp inmates slept
church on the outskirts of the the end of January, about 20 to sons to get
least
some without undressing.
village, and in seven tents 30 men were dying daily. in fresh air. Three-quarters
had the inmates in our coll
On the following day the beginning the deaths were Our morning routine started nearby. been sentenced on
it political with washing, but
we were driven out to work on kept secret from other pri- grounds to long terms of im washing without water. We had a military airfield,
The dead were taken prisonment — eight to 13 to wash with snow. Nor werd
and buried, by years.
there any towels or soap, For
Later, towels we Just had to use our
however, when the mortallly rate bad risen, the bodies were clothes or some rags. Then the daily
bread ration was
thrown into a shed.
Two
at
of
Was
dis-
Little Food
inadequate. For about one und
sioners.
out the
of
Med section.
When the NKVD man had leaned forward to watch the PEFORE they approach a new British angler pull up the anchor :D agent the diplomat-spies he was making sure the diplomat must get Moscow's permission. was not retrieving a sunken box
This presumably happened be- of documents dropped by a spy.
fore
Professor Martin David Kamen, one of America's leading atomic scientists, was induced to disclose confidential information, Kama a token out to din- THAT may sound melodrama-
San Francisco by two ner In tic. But it was by such ex- Soviet Consular offelats, Gregory travagant subterfuges that the Kheifets and Gregory Kasperov, sples operating under Anatoli During the two hours and forty Antonovich Yakovlev, the war- minutes they talked, Kamen gave time Soviet Vice-Consul in New away secret information
n-an
Four Months
Food in this new camp also York, had stolen York
atom bomb offence for which he had to re- secrets.
sign his appointment in the atom After, four months in the tributed; it amounted to any--Was
a half months we did not bomb projet,
Penza prison,.
taken thing between 17 and 28 ozs. I was
vegetables, picked any salt er Moscow -headquarters also
away with 800 other prisoners. depending on the amount
of Ect arranges for Communist seien- My camp life
to work about
each prisoner had done deve people, including myself strongest he could do much damage. So tists who switch their place of start. At the railway station of
developed scurvy. My before. Finally the
gums engaged In the day
were bleeding
teeth and my crowd moved comman- whole
to the
and burying the dead. that so loosened
I was The one spy ring to another. Fuchs der awaited us.
shed in which the bodles We
to get some this
able to have was handed on" from London
hardly
chow damp allocated to the building of the soup.
were kept had no doors, and cost many thousands of dollars, to New York and back again.
bread, The others fared no huge hydro-electric station on
our eyes were constantly drawn but it would have
Lave safeguarded
In the last ten years Soviet the Volga, which was to "be At 7 a.m. we alled out to better.
toward, these frozen skeletons. secrels worth many milions, aples hove
donc irreparable
world work, We were divided up into
From that time onwards the From Yakovlev's or
Throughout organisation damage, But one valuable lesson come the largest in the
our stay at the prisoners begun to refer to their Grayazovets comp we got the Russians
Information is clearly to be learned from it and the proudest achievement of two teams, and the camp omelal
bomb which advanced their atom
us on to the guards. practically unprotected against camp as a "death camp". One team after The simplest and most effec- the third five-year plan.
another, half- the programme by at least 18 months. tive way to stop further betrayals
harshness of the winter, The bodies were taken out of many starved and dressed in rags, Mos of us were in rags. They also goi secret detalls about is by keeping constant, watch on
this shivering in the snow storm, toes, were
Our the camp every day after din- the H bomb, the proximity Russia's diplomatic men.
sticking out of our ner in huge wooden sledges work, we made our way towards our boots, There were no stoves in attached fuse, radar, and guided missiles.
(WORLD COPYRIGHT-
af working places,
tractor, Thety Yakovlev's unceasing under-
the ad were camp except in
thrown into a common ministrative building and the grave which was then filled first ald post.
(Continued. on, Page 7 Col. 6)
If Yakovlev had bren con- sistently shadowed Dr Fuchs would have been caught before
spy-
was
would Harry Gold, Julius Rosen- work to be "handed on" from Kurbishev our ca had been cook-house
and the other traitors,
bere precaution would
cover activity was no Isolated LONDON EXPRESS SERVICE)
instance of a.Soviet consular. official abusing his diplomatte privilege.
In official reports released by the U.S. Government following the rounding up of Yakovley's agents, eight other Soviet diplo mats are named as master sples.
Their methods detailed in the reports--mirror Yakovlev's so closely that only one explanation is possible: Many and perhaps all Soviet diplomats are given a standardised spy training before leaving Russia.
Vice-Consul Peter Ivanov's plans for penetrating the Radia- tion Laboratory at California University, a focal point of atom bonds research, are typical,
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On Ivanov's instructions he contacted five young Left-wing scientists working in the Radio- tion Laboratory and organised
A
I connot say how prisoners participated in gigantic construction Sixty to seventy thousanx! them worked in
my
sector
PHONED
WOMAN
AND THEN-
passed
No Protection
Most of our work was on the] river bank in liquid mud. Our Jul.consisted in moving Umber. We were without any protection from the wind, wearing self- manufactured boots made out nt old car tyres. The working day began at 7.30 am, and last- From Newell Rogers
ed until 0 pm, with a half- hour break for lunch. Lunch NEW YORK.
Five gan.
years
Mire, of course, a relative con- DEO was convicted ception. Most prisoners had al- TOVELIST MARGARET Dorothy Evans
HERZOG might have to four years
caten their daily ration of manslaughter and sentenced ready
in prison for of bread in the morning, and thought up a story called shooting her husband. While while out at work we did not The Life and Death of awaiting trial she gave birth receive any warm food.
ton boy, Jerome. The other Erwin Ray. But probably any he toddled Into a broomi After work, hardly able to her publishers would have cupboard, found a pistol, point- move our legs and driven on said the plot, was too un- ed it at his malher, and shot by the rifle butts of the guards, likely.
we returned to the camp. Sup-
Ray was unhappy. His
Twenty-two-year-old Erwin AM FORCE high-ups have Par in camp consisted of thick wife appolated an 11 man board to spoonfuls of gruel, Immediately occasionally with'a few soup, telephoned Just
to his investigate the crash of eight California home to ask for a jet planes which came
after supper," exhausted by the duy's work, we fell icey. divorce.
during a thunderstorin
Ind
her dead.
down while
Erwin's mother talked to on a mass training fight near him. So he took his Bible and Richmond, Indiana.
Thus day after day and month after month went by has We all gradually turned into We had desiro except
a hunting rifle and said: "I am MARGARET TRUMAN going up to the hills to try signed to give 20 musical re something like cattle. to reconcile myself.
other citals across America next win- | no
to her TV, shows.
A
10
Nover Built
Sap-
The only people who enjoyed
flam
them into a Communist
Then he persuaded Dr
Joseph
In the hills he ignored the ter. They will be in addition eat our fill and then to steep. Weinberg, a senior scientist of "No Trespoming" elgm at the California University, to "disc gato of a ranch. It was
the the "cell" and Bli pling"
the
CAR - MAKER in Detroit ranch of Mrs Margaret Ryan, Information he could out of it.
Cell and get
factory He told Weinberg to order the son of Thomas Fortune Ryan,
wealthy widow of the grand is building a 27-acre
to manufacture British young Communists to destroy all a New York multi-millionaire, rete the third fac- more decent life in the camp
phiro
Jet engines for the US. evidence of Party
membership, to She ordered him off. He
were the prisoners employed avoid talking politics, and to refused to go, They had tory announced.
the administration. They Sapphire production. strong drinks. refrain from
words. Ho swung his ride at
formed
• Secret
They the aristocracy. cell" meetings were
THE ARMY is seeking 30,000 lived in warm huts with prope her. But Mrs Ryan had a re- organised at
at Weinberg's house. volver, and she fired. Erwin volunteers for its Women's Weinberg eventually gave Nelson fell dead.
Army Corps. It has
and blankeky got better already beds
and even top-secret information on alom There will bo. on Inquest, signed up 10,000 W.A.Cs with food
money, and but the sheriff saya dārs Ryan a new lure a brownish
were allowed to buy dood and grey tabacco shot in self-defence.
uniform created by one of
Ins, o canteen, Their Before her marriage she was Fifth Avenue's top fashion do they were recruited almost ex
number was very small,' and Margaret Herzog, the novelist, signers. The now ongemble
NAV emphasizes solter lines,
clusively from among comman THERE WAS noother gun amarter hat, and a Poter, Pan criminals.
This
category, of drama in Grand Rapids, Michi«: collar,
privileged prisoners formed to,
bomb research. Nelson then met Ivanov and handed over docu- ments which were sent to Nus- sia in the diplomatic bag,
A tow days later, another Can- sular official met Nelson and gave him a-wed, of dollars /
were
the
were
graves
teams of gravediggers,
from
among the prisoners, wero
digging common
to
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