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INTELLIGENCE REPORT

Conducted by

SEFTON DELMER

Contributing writers: STEPHEN CONSTANT...MAURICE COWLING

I CAN TELL YOU NOW OF THE RUSSIANS'

AMAZING SECRET EAR

SOVIET ENGINEERS HAVE PERFECTED A NEW uping "SUPER HEARING AID" WHICH MAKES IT POSSIBLE Peron. FOR SOVIET AGENTS TO LISTEN TO, AND RECORD, A CONVERSATION TAKING PLACE UP TO A MILE AWAY.

The great thing about. The new "Hearing Aid” is that it is operated without the aid of a microphone which on account of its dependence on cables and wires could always be located in a careful check.

decided

All that is needed for the presumably only given when

ina Kremliuites had new devien is that an opera- tive an office cleaner will that they would have to move

do-hides a small metal dise

out themselves,

somewhere in the target HAS THE IMAM GOT

room.

Quite an easy thing

to do, for the disc is no DENTURE TROUBLE?

bigger than a small pillbox.

IN Aden they

dictator Generul

Juan

A Smile

And A Shrug

-It's Molotov

By Les Armour

·OLOTOV --- by

M

be dead.

the woken up to the fact that Molo- toy holds an acc: He has a capa- city for coming to the kind of to understanding that hos ADVCX

chances of Russian politics ought

1

Poland from becoming another Hungary and that could have

been a part of the Russian ex

But putting

bullet suved Hungary. He has al through Molotov would be periment since the days whee like shooting a gramophone Khrushchev

man bas.

WIN 241 illiterate

record in the hope of plumber and he knows intimate- disposing of the singer. ly every possible move in the Council of People's Commissars deadly game. He does not have Prime Minister and Stalin's Molotov is a professional to look over anyone's shouider number two, diplomat, He has always to know Just what cards every

He 100k OVLI the Russian been someone else's voice

Foreign Office in time W and, when a new tune is

organise the now notorious pact with Hiller on the outbreak of called, he merely shrugs,

the Second World War. amiles, gives the world a knowing look and geis on with the job.

The none, in Russian, means "hamner" His real name LA Skrypbin. Fifty years ago, when be changed it, he may have had dream, of being the revolution's heinmer The name, snow, must make him smile a little.

4

Underneath the mask, there must be a real Molotov and the the real Molotov must have in- flumer The trouble is that no coe enn ever entch him uslug 1,

There

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push

He was a schoolboy, barely 18, when he joined the party. The set of a shop assistant, he knew the hard facts of life in Tsarist Russia before be

moved on $1. Petersburg University d began organising students. He came in at a moment when the Itevolutionary movement, recoil- ing from disasters, Was losing meagotum aut rouch As in- tellectual leadership.

When it built up again for the nul pushy he was already firmly entrenched.

And be had tremendous

As

early b arrested ant Vologdu

is, of course, Molotov energy.

Molotov whosu the man-the

home

constantly overflowing with homeless chil- dren, the Molotov who once led Irish sing-soNE at a stole dinner in St. James' Palnce, the Mulotov whose capacity laughter

exceeds Mr Khrush- chev's capacity for vodka.

But he Bgures world Talks,

very little in

dapper

The man who gures in inter- untional affales is a dapper, un- smiling, scholarly-looking man la next blue sult. He might have come out of the foreign office of any country in Europe. He would have rise to the top In anybody's diplomatic service.

Wol

1900, he

deported lo

He promptly organised the Vologdn Füllwayunen Lanter powerful Communist cell,

After his graduation in 1009 this exile did not last long) he helped Stalin found Pravda,

In 1012, he was ordered out of St. Petersburg but he went only as far as the suburbs where he again established strong Com- munist cells. Nothing seemed to upset him,

to

In 1915, he was finally exited Siberia. Alas, there Wis

The pact not only bought time but gave Russia half-Poland at 210 cost whatever. Molotov settled back with chuckle to watch the Fascists

the and capitalisis destroy one another,

It was, apparently, his own fault that Things were not lo work out quite that way.

On November 13, 1940, Mulo- tov arrived to see Hitler The Fuerher was flushed with victory, Molotov But unly demanded a Russian base in the Dardenelles but demanded that Hiller give him an immediate reply.

aware

with

Hitler was speechless rage and seems to have decided there and then lo attack Russia at the earliest possible oppar- tunity.

Yet Molotov had not neces- sarily blundered.

He deliberately continued to

filtler neodle

123 succeeding negotiations. He seems to have realised that if Hitler succeeded

less

his

Molotov's methods in getting own way. He must have known that Stalia was too proud to insist that Hitler be treated with kid gloves

After the war it was Molotov who negotiated Russia into A position of dominence in East Czech Social Democrats into a state of Europe, who lulled the

mad dayarcam, who master minded the remarkably success- ful Russian propuganda paign.

Et aus.

tired

сам-

Molotov ubove all, who gradually froze the world into void war. in those days, though, there were signs that he did not always like the tune his masters called.

United

and

He

His speeches in the Nations

longer became duller and more soporolle. looked tired and wan and much of the old wit was gone,

As the opportunities for genuine diplomacy faded with the freeze Molotoy appeared to fade, 100.

retired Finally in 1949, he to the Kremlin to concern hum- self with administration and to resume his old pre-war trouble- shooting.

In 1053, hu cmerged as Foreign In conquering the West, Russia Minister

again, But, with alone did not have a chance. Khrushchev and the new policy,

ills masters were

well he was recalled to administra

Shepilov was aware of the dangers and cer- live duty again, tainly unwilling and unprepared the new front man.

allowed war. But they Molotov to conduct the negolia- tions his way-perhaps out

nothing there to orginue and he was buck in St. Pelésburg with for a year.

and

In

of

But, already, he has regained his old reputation for smoothing In 1017, be was a member of pride.

unmities and repairing other He can argue anybody to a

people's blunders and, us the standstill. He can make almost the St. Petersburg Sov.et

the next year became chairman Ritter's Bre was drawn and new leaders feel the shocks of ONE reader of this report hat any proposition sound reason- offered me his services as

in the satel- an abte.

momente ho of the Northem Hegion economic drawn

the their blundering prematurely. At crucial

view of James Byrnes, Roose lites, his power L ID doubt assistant,

can disarm his enemies by sug- committee.

that growing daily. velt's Foreign Secretary, "X

that his first-class

masters, no pistolesting shot," he writes,

barbarians, but, he "conversant doubt, are

Is a of small arms himself,

reasonable mati with all types and trained in unarmed combat." and, surely, reasonable men can Alas, I must disappoint the come to an understanding? romantic ambitious of this potential Greenmande, This column is strictly Cloak and

Pen.

Ам

Antonio's cut

When the firm resumed de-

veries to the Argentine after

Even Hitler could never cope with him

le escaped Stalin's purges, survived Klirushchev's counter- purge.

whs

Three years later. he was a

probably the determining of the Politburo. At event in the course of the war. member 31, he was already at the top.

For twenty years ho was Stalin's piinc.pul trouble- shooter: smoothing out quarrels, re-orgunking foundering com- milters, adaptang other people's theoretical pang to the baru lacis of Russian life.

For the last ten of those 20 cha.rman of the

In the Kremlin poker game, the other players have suddenly years he was

they or shall they not publish a Acera, Ya history of Operailon through.

And Whitehall go

the war they were only too Dre wondering happy to appoint the private The trunaniter, operated by Pwarther the new aggressive- anonsta

confidant of Juan the agents

from a safe pinee nes: of Yemen is prompted by Peron to the chairmanship of Musketeur," the Anglo-French I learn that Buckinghamı anywhere within a range of n Moslem nauticism or the Joss their loent board of Argentine Besion in Egypt, is planting Pulace .and Whitehall have mie, then sends mil elvetronie of the Imani Ahmed's teeth, subeldiaries, which gave him a and its execution? waves which sensitise the disc.

big cut in their pronis, This in its furn then reflects the waves of the conversation taking place in the roun, which recorded by the receiving end of the "Hearing Aid."

are

Moving out

When the Imam got tooth- ache last year he called for an American dentist who had alreatly attended King Saud of Arabla. The dentist took one look. applied the gas,

and removed the lot.

agreed to ask the Duke to re- frankness present the Queen at the cel If written with

the and realism, it should make a brations of

Gold Coast's fascinating addition to history's evolution to independence as the

State of Ghana. politicians-versus-soldiers con-

This was Jorge Antonio, an Argentino of Lebanese extrac- on, who, in four short years. from being an unknown serul>

Dr Nkrumah's Government and in a Buenos Aires hospital hud become a multi-millionaire The job will probably be has also sent an invitation

dictator's Anance given to the man whom the Nasser and Mrs Nasser.

and the

troversies,

gunerals always seem to fill on

The Imom awoke, TIT his wizard-in-chief You can imagine the furry tongue around his mouth.

and Mercedes flourished undier when it comes to doing some- MY TIP: A NEW the discovery of this Soviet threw the American into gaol, the busines Antonio brought thing "arty"; salty ex-Chindit

catered among vowing he had been robbed of them. For

MAN FOR CAIRO those in the Western world

his dignity and strength. Whose job it is 10 sce that secrets don't leak out,

apparatus has

But the really

Ironic

Is that the Soviet device

eqtual caused an MOSCOW.

for

hing

ques Antonio's

glant rais

He is, still, only 88 and it is a reasonable bet that he will be

the

-

I is possible that the West in business when Khrushchev Owes 2 lot to Molotov. And has staggered back into the inelden! is illustrative of shadows,

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Buence Brigadier Bernard Fergusson. instance, Aires taxi drivers all bought. The dentist was rally re- Mercedes cars (at a substantial' ******** feared to make a full biting set premium

which went into REMEMBER those the the

pocket) Imam. But

because witch Sir Anthony Eden hunted tion In Aden olanda - has the Mercedes cars got taxi lenees down and killed because their andor in Cairo when has

Impression of robbed virility from the police, others did not. night-time spooking through the were broken off, will anxiety in

been effaced by those double Came Peron's crash, Jorge bedrooms of Goldeneye scared going back there. For the Soviet accurlly dentures?

Antonio was arrested, his pro- Lady Eden and poiled his Another envoy will be sent in new Or is the assuming that

Usplay of perty confiscated. And Mer- Jamalean rest cure?

his place whenever the Cairo by their aggressiveness intended to re- codes local plant, put up at Well, it now turns out that embassy Is reopened. Slr own people may well have also assure both his followers and such expense, was "sequestered" they wero pets, bred, tamed, Humphrey will get a top-class been developed by the Western himself that, even though under one of the anti-Feron and tesined by Ble Anthony's embassy elsewhere.

Ws passed by the anti- absent hostess, Mrs Ian Fleming. cronists now in power.

And they weren't As a precaution

Things are not improved for hamsters, Mercedes, or any of the other Arms in the

the same boat, by the �***** fact that Poron is Anuncing his

au.horliles are

anything developed

scientists.

toothlese, he is still a man?

they havo

moved all the departments

the Communist Secretariat out PERON TROUBLE

They HITS MERCEDES-BENZ

of the Kremlin to addresses in and around Žave also moved Dut ali the

Moscow.

ERCEDES-BENZ, the great

laws

salted

rala but/ mootor

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

anti-Government rising in the OIL NEWS-U.S. Argentino with funds

SWITCHES TANKERS

away for him by Anions will

high-ups who hid to reret German motor-ear makers, the Kremlin. No really work is now carried on there, are in trouble with the Argen Antonio himself? He

THE RED

EMBASSY

COULD 'HEAR'

SO MUCH.

tine Government,

Their Arm's assets

assem including

स

In prison awaiting tri

trial. Tho.

Gulf

contain

Week

Middle East output for trans-

in the Government has to make co-ONFIDENTIAL reports from

new stant changes in the staff of the the Persian and production plant prison for fear his guards will good news for Western Europe. worth £3,000,000, have been succumb to his charm and his The Americans who inst "sequestered" that's

their bribes and let him escape, were still taking a third of the word for it. Neither the protests. Bessssse of Mercedes themselves, the COST so far of Hungary's rising port to the United States - German

пот Embassy,

the against the Russians, according depriving Europe both of oil friendly behind the socnen to the Kadar Government, le and invaluable tankers -- now For the Kremlin is much too lutervention on their behalf of £350 million:

£80,000,000 # appear to be diverting these and the British and Americans have the cost of damago done during US, hound cargoes to Europe. close to the big hotels embrasier to be considered aufe shown any sign of moving the Red Army's 800-tank attack from "Big Brothers Big Ear."

the Ar

the on Budapest. Argentinos to release Fear of the "Hearing Aid"; properties,

was probably at the bottom of Mercedes trouble--in contrast

WILL NASSER MEET

that mysterious order the with that of the British-owned THE SUEZ STRIKE: A ROYAL DUKE?

to

Brilish, and Amorleann to give railways and other Briza drms up their Kremlin querier.

ambassion Jn.

ive where property was arbitrally HISTORIAN. WANTED THE DU of Counsele

may

都算

taken over in the Argentina-

And Molotov's gracious repeal stems from having boon in too DOST-EDEN debets at the follow-quest with Nawar of the order to the British was well with the Argentine's Hitter. A. Ministry of Defonos:"kull Adors it prosent plans in Cairo,

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