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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1954.

These Cloak-and-Dagger days .... an Up-to-Date Analysis of the Era of Espionage in which we all live...

The

Web

I WANT TO TELL

YOU THE ASTONISHING STORY

OF THE 'BIG FISH' WE LOST

HE fact that faces anyone setting out

10 prepare A re- port un modern espionage is that there is nothing-absolutely nothing ---so fantastic that it couli not happen in this web which surrounds us.

It is easy.

know, to

The

smile and to talk about Sux

and

Sonia, Kohmer Beautiful Spy, but the truth

iM

Today Bienn DO

ineel

quietly in a park--and as a

result the whole

technolo

gicni researches of another

country take

forward.

Today

assassination

DO men

THE FOLL CASE

RADIO

THE MECHANISM

2 WAY WRIST

THE CASY

SHE TUMMY CISAKETTY

It's a Dick Tracy world

When

MiFID

cartoon detretive Dick Tracy used his

Tainous two-way wrist radio sel, even his most fervent fans were serpileat

11 bà had used cyanide-carrying

趣

bullets.

lethal vigarette case, with silent.

they would also have

bern

sicptical

it was revealed recently in the Khoklov case that the Russians had perfected just such a

A great leap

regardl

EN routine anel sta .. ste- Grive 112Berl "xperiment

with

vatei

15

Instrument of policy

consequence

partments

small and silent lethal weapon," Today men 10 live In world of codes,

und a coaSÁG MELLOW secrets change batul, which are prizel beyond sensurerent by one

The

INDEED,

prize

the overpowerZAK new factor in world exp

hustory J1 that never Ko have the prizes been nearly jarga; never hax one successful act of esplotage been able give such staggering results.

with Clog -

Compared with wardme spy- ing in the struggle

many,

own

what is KONK

Kun...

How it works :--- First the lid is opened. In effect throwing the safely the wide Theo the victim in offered a cigaretle

of the case in pressed. and out comes a bullet through one of the neatly packed dummy cigarettes

Che gun is operated electrically, and the bullets are Instantaneous death.

2

wall roll Kuzne I don't - Jive this story has ever

to light before.

breathe #1 gives sume hint of how much can be won or lost by angle Dunw

Stone, & cosmopollan kotel in entral capotal doring the 20 war ...

Around

the Equally harassed British-

ameials in that neutral country at waiting for that courier from London,

AL the aircraft look Bellah courier across the Atlantte he puzzled over

The sunge message he was taking back to his chiefs in London.

And just the same problem, only worse, faced Intelligence headquarters when the report reached Whitchull.

Could he possibly know of aples in the Whitehall Ministries at a time when the uilles were getting on so well together?

And then-Clearance! Project agreed right away! The courier was only flying hours away. He had the passports, he had the Bank of England authority, and the gold for Kuznov,

Londont Action

WHEN

by IAN

US COLVIN Us

PETROV WAS IN LONDON ..

幽

Frankfort aren a chief of staff to the Second' Directorate named Major General Alexan- der Semenovich Panyushkin,

The game man.

ac-

in deeds of calculated

In other words, the web of today is no extra- espionage ordinary that even people customed to the lofly rank of ambassador ora directly ini- volved The little airport was de- sorted, except for the

violence, control

It may bo men of high lower, a few officials, the usual

distinction or equally of ap- the faultlessly rechunles,

parently little claim to achieve Secretary

TN the course of my inquiries in London I uncovered a from tho dressed

Embassy. who rua

new fact of constderable importance: The famous ment

"Nowadays in peacetime British come to meet the courier. Vladimir Petrov, former third secretary and espionage England,"

And shuning

also an elderly couple agent at the Russian Embassy in Canberra, has visited Soviet

across the tarmac to

London. one of the outgoing alciinera. At least they seemed rather

He was in London in January 1951. And with hiti elderly and decrepit

because blonde wife Evdokia he sailed for Australia in the Orendes three il

young men were giving on January 5, 1951 to take an his appointment there. of them

à helping hand on board

So another link in the Russian spy net that ranges the aircraft.

from Britain to Austrația is uncovered.

I remember hearing a Secret Service story of the first world war: how a British agent had been slutioned in Holland and

man had Come over from Cologue -and sold him the

A

German order of battle for the jthineland,

fie had paid for it with pound of ten. The order battle had been genuine,

That touch about the pound of tea had been thought to ten! artistry, because the der

ያገልክ perhdpa never Kut the value of the order of battle

More

wanted

WELL

We now go to Room 105 in the Grand Hotel. This was the rendezvous. This is the time that Kuznov would appear, if the plle message about a new spare part for his American car had reached him.

The courier and his cum- Panlun

for sat waiting there two hours. At length came message.

"Alexander

MARIN

Kuznov

that was Alexander

Petrov, during his visit, may have learnt much Izondon.

writes

a repentant Footc, spy, Alexander "the business man from Canada, the little tobacconist round the The corner, the hearty commerclat traveller un the 4.15 aro tor More likely to be spies than dumb blonde or sinister

any

Daron,

Clerical types In

on

zero-

In diplomatic missions, draughtsmen in ne- tories.

specialists dynamics and higher mathe- postal sorters, civil cervants, frustrated ment in underpaid jobs, have all come jostling into the spy pleture,

On May 25, 1951, four and a half months after the Petroys had sailed, Burgess and Maclean caught the Chan- maties, nel stemmer at Southampton.

The Red net is world-wide.

No Difficulty

WONDER At this moment for example exactly what is on in the Polish com-

whom plain clothes

the In 1980 he was booke nut METAL lo England. the of New York for a

period of this time Kuznov

cannot Kaiser

enticing leave He left in that familiar wanted more than a pound keep his appointment, For the Hungarian countesses

Everyone pleatare cruiser, the steamship of tea. His price was certainly clderly

you taw at the French staff officers,

the web touches Batory, but he went back 100. taken seriously In Whitehall port, going out by stages to is in it, if

them, and even the most Then the Kosenkinu scandal I and in the country hide-out, Moscow

exalted officers are often the broke. where wartime Intellige

"cover" for trickier deeds that You will remember the case multy in North Yorkshire-not worked. But at that moment

the office suggests.

nf Mer Okana Kusenkina, very far from another tom- there was one man on leuve

the Rusian schoolleecher who munity in the same county who inust be united Defros clearance could be given He would be back very shortly.

Meanwhile, thes courier sat about in his don club.

tanaly

1

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principal Soviet

We working in England.

plared incide Ministries in Whitehall."

agents

wer your

A 'plant'

Everythout reems to be ga Wack

WELL my friend Dr Lever- on German Bar for th Gond Allum

Military Intelligence will short- against tier.

ly reveal that only one cypher 14 walking telegram to fier was neces- sary before the Germans spent job-ra £14,000 on a single rebellion in Irun.

An agitated minn #lul Ite Jonge Your abruptly to is is much more desperate.

British street, the

fartory you ofetal work in, the pub at the corner. no place is the post office too humdrum to be the centre of conspiracy

There

B mmsaar

"You know rue. I met you at Kernbusy reception two ([wys g. Follow me up to Room Ita For

A few

minutes. I have Something to tell you" may be a dozen men in London now whose cloak is As the dour of

103 simply their normal behaviour, closed the Russian put his rando whose dagger a valuable piece on the table. of data scribbled on a screwed up piece of paper and passed bu a stranger at a street corner

Muppose that

Fuchs imprisoned

still stande out as the man who, more than any one spy in history, decisive. ly helped to alter the balance of power by guiding Russian minds towards the secret

power.

Ele

now-

atomic

1 am Alexander Kuznov I the Soviet Embassy. I F013 stay only five minutes, mu be recalled to Moscow. I can.

**** rgse of Kuznov Was The whole perhaps differoni, thing might be a plant, and the was large for British standards. It affected polley too with Russia and the West war- time allies.

11

Who wa Ramov" Alexander Kaznov

The

Mes

British Embassy showed that he was the nercial counsellor of the Soviet

Mlesion.

Then what was Kuznov?

Had

amiss with

dava Kuznoy,

.1

And meanwhile B

in on were closing hundreds of miles owDY.

ekiel he ambassador of the log of geing his wife again in Morrow. meeting in our Moscow berat by the glorious Red Army",

expect he watched carefully for a hint of the ambassation a feelings and watched everyour, and had a feeling that every one was watching him.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR

SPY STUDENTS

suing post-war

Kuznoy "

The

prices

story,

secret THE theto

has

I note, for instance, a name tried to break with Cummmunist where last year the mystery of this week the signtheance of and jumped out of an upper the Polish priest has never which I suggest has not been window of the Soviet Consulate been solved. adequately understood.

Generi u New York. She was bark Inside, severely

While

At ut six milea from York,

a hostel

housing

about 700 Pales, There are

reporta of unknown

by men arriving of 191 growing crowds Americans swarmed round the into conversation with the local tai and insinuating themselves consulate American elvitt people there. The obvious pur-

which I revral in $13

details, essential

In the sensational revelations hauled many

of Captain Nicolai Kinkley, the injured, Jersons for us,

Maybe for the price of Ave man with the cyanide cigaretta of Alexander torpedoes we could have known Cake, The name aturl

and Maclear, S. Panyushkin is Burgess their Alght was even

That name la familiar. dreamed ut.

This is the Maybe for the price of h been Soviet Ambassadør In malum bomb wo coul! have Washington and in China, frun out something about the intention

tu take Pontecorvo

away from us.

Cleero.

mentioned.

when

has

Had he been posted to Lon dun the Queen would have had le shake hands with blm,

Let us just trace the career of Alexander Panyushkin.

When he arrived in America

1948 he made

ves)

נו!

some

on

felehed her out and put her in

pose of their talk is to entice hospital under protection

Tiral soundid ended in the these Poles back to the home- reen of 'anyushkin.

and the lund. Transport, it seems, is no closing of two Soviet consulates Brat dificulty. in America,

But many of the people there not entirely satisfied with the "open" purpose of visit. Even in the day-

was ar

this

their

For a year Panyushkin ambassador to China,

in July 1953 he left Peking me doors are being kept lock-

for Russia and "other work."

ago answered

Maybe for the price of a few motor-cars we could have dis

avered sooner the identity of the man in the British

Ein-

What was that other work? cd. They don't forget too easily bassy in Ankara whose code agreeable speeches about Roi- We discover this from the inter- how Father Borynski nearly 12 Kame to the Germans was ting on well with other nations, rogations of Caplain

a tele- Khuklov, months the who find Panyushkin

in charge of phone call to his home, walked was put But perhaps the most sallent record as asking the State De- assassination

out-and has never been jeen work against fact of all is that today nothing partment what General Mac- Russian refugees

and others since. nobody entirely escapes Arthur meant by rearming the carrying on the cold war from the astounding range of espion Japanese And I find him pro- Western Germany. age.

testing that America was using We discover thut Khoklov is no longer the closed displaced persons to spy behind had severul times to consult un

of the nunceled officers the Iron Curtains in 1949.

his murder plans for the

It

For those interested in pur

more fully the story of

espionage suggest shop The following book list: Opera- 140522 Cheers by L. C. Moyzisch

(Wingate): Odelu by Jerrard Tickell (Chapman and Halt): Germany's Underground

by

MONDAY: Case-history

of a capture

MILAN-A THROBBING POWERHOUSE

M

ILAN 1954 is

throbbing

power

By BERNARD RONALD

R

had sounded

a horn, the law thought it was me, so I was told in booming tones: "Do it again and I will wrap it round your so-and-so neck." I remembered the molio of the Slient Servico and said nothing.

Allen Dulles (Macmillan); The Venlo Incident by Captain S. Payne Beat (Hutchinson): not go back. I want you to give

Meaning of Treason by Rebeern me refuge I will coûte over jo

West

(Meetnian);

Flovirl you for £10,000 in gold and

Atomic Spies by Bernard

house of inventive Oh Its est visit the Duke guarantee of protection.

I wil

Models (fashion) are popular Newman

(Robert Hale): of great

The initiative, of bring you something

perseverance stayed in town only long enough in Milan, and Model Liuba Rosa Man Who Never Was by Ewen value.

to dine with a few friends. But enterprise that was private

no exception. Lluba Montagu (Evans); Duet of Wits and

to send the ovar enough "If you will give refuge for

Sen boy friends, Ave of Hardy husbands who cannot news boomeranging through the whom he offenderi someone? by Captain Peter Churchill None the less, the point I am

she says are I will was he afraid to go my secretary

"pretty (Hadder and Stoughton); Lon-find houses have rolled up vins and plazza making is how difficult it is tu

and echning serious." with Ric the cyphers. his wife in Moscow"

I shudder to think what would Was don Calling the North Pole by their Bleeves and built for wecks ju the gossip columns. weigh with any precision fise And I will bring you a list of running off with the secretary .

have happened If I had insisted J. Ciskes (Kimber);

The

their

Thousands own.

He was on his way to join the of

Lovely 21-year-old Lluba con- the bruiser-ilko and taking the cypher. De Royal Comnusston on Canadian

bobby was Duchess in Monte Carlo.

"They don't give the wrong. Alded to me: signorinas, sighing for finance his honeymoon? Had Spy Trials_(H.M.S.O.); Hand-

The Duke, grey-haired and me A minute's peace from laken sonic of the secret hoolt for Spies by Alexander suitor, are filling pages of

grave. still

as that shy smile morning to night. One Lisista the local papers with point of greeting that Britons knew on running me into town every ed appeals.

true consequences of even ope SUCCES-r one mistake.

want i tell you astonishur

story

now the

me bring

und

*Thi j Fure. man I for keeping

wor his real Deute and elen natu, sound reaEETIN

identity secret.

back lo

Dy

he funds and feared to go home? Foote,

Rolling pins that no man need fear, Swedish measuring spoons, French carving knives, Italian pottery. They're just a few

of the curios that actress Pat Nye handles as a sideline.

PRINCE

NE ot

Oknown

PHILIP'S

OLOHA

BOOSTED SALES

New York.

Britain's well

actresses has

By Kay Murray

Д

in his more youthful days. And morning. From town to my work Take 42-year-old Prince Vit- though he would prefer so much is a short tram ride, and another forle Massimo, who married Tiny two-seater cars to clude the publicity that is beau always walts at the tram 23-year-old British actress Down

beamed upon him, he takes the stop. powered by scooter engines acrobatic

And yet another waits for Addams in Rome a few days attentions of

the me at the door of the fashion ago. that do over 60 miles to the Italian press photographers salon and insists that have a gallon are rolling out of a good part.

warm cup of coffee with him la him a sentence of four months' A row with a traffic cop got motor-cycle factory. Tele-

the cafe across the road. I get imprisonment vision is being installed in the huge Central Station to flash arrival and departure messages on special screens to the public.

תכם

orgue it out,

in Д Leghorn

honeymoon. But of

in

three or four telephone calls And now a word about TV during the morning, then I have court. f terrible thing to hap- Sales of TV sets are not exactly to have lunch with one of the pen on

course, these things do hoppen scorching the machines.

accounting boys.

when princes and the polico A recent programme

have Latin temperaments, and for Instance rend "Riposo."

"Any girl of 21 who says boy the princes are determined to I thought that meant a nice friends loro her is just kidding." Bul to the Milanese, these evening's repose in front of the products of a modern, materialist screen, but it transpired that it Setting up the shop was quite machine age are not nearly e meant

Prince Vittorio's bother with that the audios were Italians a project, she admitted.

are the most argu- the police dates back to October Important as a Beeting visit by having a 24-hour "repoie"ant mentative people in the world 10, 1863. On that ill-fated day "l'elegante Inglese" the elegant the would-be viewers!

his car retired to the kitchen-and they get lotters from people in English walnut table audience over the networks that A beautiful 18th.

"We had a mou buying för us Century

Englishman).

Meanwhile

and the system in their country he was driving In Italy and visiting England,

importers displays

debt whereby truffle polleemen can Leghorn. Came a junction with is extremely happy there the Middle West

but in future we hope to be able

whether more than 20,000 acts impose fines the complaining a magnificent Wedgewood saled

Its traffic light. spot is

He crossed. Pat Nye, managing direc- that they

have been installed during the certainly not can't understand how!,"

there are English to close down the shop in July and

sulted to their and was promptly stopped by tor of the late Bedford English actors," she told me,

For 10 and August and go abroad our-

the mode-minded last two years. Scanning the temperaments.

the police. hunting printa

Said the Prince or sale along

sleyline from Theatre.

The light was yellow." Replied my balcony 1 Camden

But while waiting for "some with some fascinating

males hore, the Duke of Windsor Town,

rolling seives to stock up."

that the faw tell- on dozens of Helen would say appears

Motorists are always wrong, the traffle cop: "It was red." London, and a brilliant good to come along," Pa: plns.

To keep her hand In, Nyo is perfectly happy at "L

Miss publications as

connoisseur of tale serials in sight word in the Italian cop says as he whips And because the police alleged Ftatatecta in Olivier's pro- Cuffiniere."

Aren't conventional Nye is acting as dramatic coach tailoring taste.

the He is always dicate that

Importers are out his book. The police are that the Princo insulted them relli duction of "Caesar and

pins, though," explained to the graduate class of one of impeccably dressed. And when right on the beam.

they She She met her partner,

never right, the drivers think. by saying "It surprised Mrs La Cuisiniere's hosters. "They New York's most famous estab- he is in town, his name becomes Sots cost anything from £100 Bui woe betido Cleopatra," is part pro- Campbell Dick, when she wol

them if they hoops you in your job, the used to be hung over the wide shments, the Felgan School of an Italian household word. to £300 (the cheapest 14-inch put their thoughts into words.

Loghorn judge took a very prietor of fascinating here with the Olivier company of sailing ships In the 18th Drama.

serious view of the argument, } New York shop called "La decided to retum and try her the ship. They are usually of In 1951-52. A year later she century to measure the roll of Cuisiniere," which

Princo Vittorio has appealed.`· sella luck, discovered that like her Bristol or Nailsea glass."

me His argument casseroles scif

with the police everything from

Mrs Dick has travelled to canapes,

extensively and Hites good food

Best-seller

But while waiting for a fat stage role to come along, she isn't at all unhappy among her elegant pots and pans.

thr

"The Kitchen.

JOHNNY HAZARD

"Running a shop and selling and cooking, and they decided

to go into

things you like yourself

la

a

A best-selling item is come into the conventional blue and while fascinating," she told me, though

Saler she made it clear that she has living room so much here," she striped batcher apron.

told me, "that we thought it soared when they displayed

picture of the Duke of Edin La Cuisiniere rolle every burgh sporting one as he cross- "But every actor needs gimmick and gadget

the antique ed

Line With ali itn sideline," she wild, and this, it and modern, American and attendant indignities. Acoms, is particularly Go in European,

One that go into the

La Culaintere

by no means deserted the act- made a good focal point for us." ing profession...

1

thing

New York. "The theatre here," modern kitchen. It has Trench focan't intend to cope with is said Miss Nye. "is not in very carving knives, Swedish mea. Food. good shape and people are rather careful about a British

accent."

¡Perfectly Happy

suring spoons, ovenproof

"Too much competitions,” salt nish baking dishes Italian Miss Nys, Armis. "But Wo pottery, Californian herbs, pre going in for cocktali snacks.

On the elegant side are Try this sturgeon-smoked modern French china, Stafford, chicone," she added, hospitably shira coffee cups, Royal Cauldon slicing off a shaving. They're even more careful in dimer ware ("Open Stock," Even of 10.10 a.m. it tasted talevision, in which Miss Nys said Miss Nyo emplacently, good, oqually so the Chianti- anym sho'll - thke a... part ir 19's been very difficult since davoured cheese and the cat- something good - gómes along," the war to get good English meal bread, all specinilles de in

They reach ich an enormous china in open stodit.")

matson,

CAIN'T UNDERSTAN" WHY LIʻL JAHN TOOK OFF SO SUDDEN-LIQISTAN'T ÜKE`

HIM T'DO THAT***

table model costs every penny already an Italian shop of £100). TV is State-controlled Having what the locals den word. For "Principe di Galles" and the Government is evidently scribe as the "traditional. British (Prince of Wales) palternen realistic about

saved the quality of phlegm" certainly suitings are sold by every the programmes. Viewers do not whon Milanese cop picked on looks like being a very longthy clothier in the country.

have to pay for a licence as yet! your correspondent. Somebody affair,

By. Frank Robbin

IN TRECHAT'S HOUSE, JOHNNY WORKS UNTIRINGLY AT HB ROPES WITH THE NAILAM)

ÂND THE STRANDS. CONTINUS TO PARTIA MUNTIL HE IS ALMOST FREE/

.......this situation

a. calls for a

San Miguel