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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1958.

Mid-week Selection by Friell

THE SPY SPEAKS

What has happened to the

brilliant

brain of

atom-spy Fuchs?

The most

intriguing disclosure ever to

come out of a British prison

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THE REPORT IS BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

THE brilliant brain of atom-spy Klaus Fuchs has now languished for eight years in the intellectual Property vacuum of prison. What has happened in that time?

How well has the mind, once rated "in the Einstein class," with- stood its sudden severing from the stream of scientific thought discovery nourished it?

and which

Will it be too corroded through disuse for Fuchs to take up atom work of the calibre in which he was once pre- eminent when he emerges from Wakefield Gaol, aged 48, next year?

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For two weeks I have in- terrogated man who claims he can answer these questions.

Brian He

Donald Hume, the ex-con- viot who formed as close a friendship with Fuchs in prison as any non-scientific person ever could.

Hume claims he wrote down every Interesting utterance by Fuchs while they were together. In support he gave me scraps of prison paper and old laundry lista on which Fuchs had made private calculations and explained scientific problemas.

(Rypsy

GOVERNMENT, PROPERTY.

Fea

Depcerate

The kind of unbelievable document two important prisoners exchanged

ON A SHEET OF TOILET PAPER FUCHS SKETCHED FOR дома. HUME THE PRINCIPLE OF THE HIROSHIMA genuine. Indeed the security cal information which Hume Experts are satisfied that authorities have insisted on says Fuchs gave him. these documents are deleting some of the technl-

DOES IT GIVE YOU A

M

PAIN IN THE NECK?

MR HUNT came into my surgery, a frightened man. IV In fact he had waited months before he came to see me. He'd felt a little lump in his neck and vaguely wondered what it was. Sometimes late at night, just before going to bed, he'd wondered: "Is it serious?"

He said: "It's always been at the back of my mind." Then one evening, fingering the bump in his neck absent- mindedly as he read the paper, he thought. "Why, it's getting bigger." And he became really anxious.

ile thought that when he finally saw me I would wear u to 'black

This happens cap. millions of people, Yet when they do arrive at the surgery the doctor merely laughs, Says ns I did to Mr Hunt: "We ch

easily cleared up get that enough. What, you've had it so long? Why ddn't you come before?"

"You mean it's nothing? 1 worried had certainly doctor, Mr Hunt confessed.

me

The doctor laughs,

the explosive in the first atomle bomb. The drawing he gove

Humo

Government Paper shows tho principle of how the Hiroshima 'bomb worked. (The Atomic Energy Authority con- firms that much of the work Fuchs did is still classled "top secret.").

SECURITY

On M.I.5-the organi- sation which induced him to confess.

British security. says Fuchs, Is symbolised by a very Ane veneer on top and complete de- partmental confusion under- neath.

M.1.5 lives on itá post traditions, like the Navy. Не considers that the security men have no idea how to deal with apies who betray secrets as he did, for idealistić ressona,

ITc confessed to M.I.5 man William Skardan only because the atmosphere at Harwell was becoming intolerable for many of friends who were being interrogated not hod fallen more gravely under suspicion than he had.

[Fuchs is mistaken The number of Harwell suspects was rapidly narrowed to three and the evidence soon concentrated on him. M. regards the Fuchs case 15 one of lis most brillant Almost all his veriona spying was done in the U.S. After a tip from America M.1.5 caught Fuchs when he attempt- ed do make this next contact with a Russian agent.]

SOVIET CASH

On the Russian spy

Hore then, #8 disclosed through the observations of Hume, are the workings of network. the mind of Dr Klaus

This was so good that when Fuchs, Harwell atom scien- the first U.S. atomic explosion tist and self-confessed Com- was staged under great secrecy on munist who was sentenced in the New Mexico desert

the Russions to 14 years' imprisonment July 10, 1945,

knew about it within 24 hours. for spying for Russia in Their agents, who had contacted 1950-

TREACHERY

Fuchs before, sought, him out and questioned him about the production rate of bombs.

His views on his own symbol treachery.

Fuchs is convinced he In the skin are minute glands!

third World which secrete an oily material, prevented a necessary for the health of our Wur by giving the secrets wiły he made skin, if the outlet of one of of the atom bomb and the

these microscopic ginnde comes blocked for any reason H-bomb to Rossia. that no doctor the sebaceous gland becomes :

This was the beginning larger and larger as it is up underlying with the oily material. And it of the balance of devas-

All in a doctor's day: by

his neck mus- cles tense, so

could feel the

structures.

CEDRIC CARNE

No-

will go on to form a cyst.

EASILY REMOVED

bc-

Let your chin drop a little and lax," I said.

When the

"These cysia," I said, swelling in the neck is believed to be the result extremely common, Masses of

them. And of enlarged lymphatic neck people have glands, then

region,"

"afe

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tating power on which the "deterrent peace- keeping polley" of both sides is now openly based.

He believes the Russians worked at phenomenal speed

He claims he took money from the Russians only once As I DX allegiance. He repeatedly refused money after- wards even to cover expenses, to show he could not be bribed into betraying secrets.

Lavrent! Beria, the liquidated Soviet police chler, made Russia's atomic age possible by his untiring intrigues in obtaln- ing atomic secrets from foreign

ples

VENGEANCE

On Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,

The U.S. Communists executed

may mean that necessarily worry about them, to produce an atom bomb for espionage in June 1953, after there is an area of infection in They may occur anywhere on Lumps and bumps Enerally the vicinity. Say, on the scalp, the skin, not merely in the neck co not signify anything grave in the mouth, or in the car.

should at ull. And if they

more something

"Oh, but I've had this well- epresent serious-though it's a thousand ing in my neck a long time, I

don'an that they

don't think I can be due to to nac carly diomosis cat allow for infected tonsils or some such." effective treatment and cure. Mr Hunt protested.

EVEN MUMPS....

LONG-TERM

It a number of conditions run that is to

because they feared an at- being tracked down from a tip tack by America was other given by Fuchs, wise inevitable.

Fuchs is convinced they were the guilty but were executed as an Fuchs claims that

the they become Not unusually

act of vengeance becauso decided to

US. Government was deter

that treason infected. Fortunately they can AMERICANS

be removed easily enough, un put the H-bomb into produc- mined to show

bo tolerated. He der local anaesthetic. Once removed they do not recur, intion only when they realised would not

how much information believes they could have saved

themselves short, Mr Hunt had nothing to

from the worry about and the sebaceous about it he must have given chair by co-operating with the cyst could be removed in a jiffy, to the Russians. †

F.B.I.. but preferred martyrs.

But of course a local chronic

Even as I write tens of Truman announced the Take Mr Hunt's bump in the

chronic, thousands like Mr Hunt could neck. Even before i examined infection will tend to

say. long-term be reassured

that nothing is project on January 31, 1950 through my head. Scores of enlargement of lymph glands. seriously wrong if only they'd two months after G-men conditions varying from glands This chronic tonsillitis or whistle up enough courage to of the Federal Bureau of

the of The very smouldering infection

become Probably Investigation had and cysts to mumps. fact that a lump in the neck teeth and gums can be respon-

sot, stern faces. could be one of so many benign sible for a swelling in the neck they'd knock on the door with satisfied from information

The vast Some aut supplied by M.1.5 that Fuchs vo- things was news to Mr Hunt that's been present for a long majority would

had been a traitor.

Like many others he was just time. 100 cancer-mindéd,

"But anxiety itself

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discuse," 1 pointed out,

1 stood behind him, about to

"and

"Except my teeth are per

Hunt vald, fect," Mr everything else lo OK."

A

their visit

On examination I found that examine his neck. Mr Hunt, the lump or swelling Mr Hunt, bke every person

was worried about, in fact was

whose neck

is about to be examined, threw not beneath the skin but in the back his heutt In the skin. It wasn't a gland at all. bellef that ho was facilitating It was only a sebaceous cyst.

But examination.

by "What's that?" Mr Hunt my extending his head in this asked.

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WITCHHUNT

On Bruno Pontecor-

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the fellow Harwell scientist who Fuchs, who had worked fled to Russia in the autumn of with Dr Edward Teller,

Io was frightened Inte run- "Father of the H-bomb," in 1947, admits he starts ning away by the "superculous manner in which M.I.G carried giving the Russians up-to- out its periodie witchhunts." dute Information on

Hume, an observant and far H-bomb almost immediately, from unintelligent man, believes supplying some of the that Tucha's mind, though "theoretical mechanics of starved of scientific silmulus, "in exceptional reasoning triggering the H-bomb" in still an

machine. 1948.

tho

He thinks that when Fuchs When Fuchs went to Germany emerges to freedom next your,

on a British post-war mission balder, but otherwise in better

|---with a temporary rank

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physical shape than when he

brigadier-be contacted former was sentenced, he will be able to friends in the German Com- pick up the threads of atomic munist Party.

research within six months.

About Jopan he thought there was no military need to drop the second atom bomb on Nagasaki-which killed 29,000 Japanose. This was doɑn becauso. US. Air Command was main to test two types of hands on different tangota to sco ́, whichi was the more efficient.

Tucha claims, he worked reducing the critical size of

TOMORROW

Where will

he go when

he comes out?.

"Hey, I'll have a lamp-post outside my window,

any type will do."

"It's a problem? How could we go to a meeting we thought would foil, and if we did go how could it succeed?"

PARIS POLICE

DEMAND MORE PAY

"It is time to chango shifts, Marcel, give me the poster and you take my baton.“

"Now why shouldn't we drop in on them casual like,

with a prepared agenda...

US, COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY

DROPPED H-BOMB

PLAN

"It could be the end of all our troubles, ho's invented a bomb that falls out upwards,”

"I want you to enjoy yourself and have your brook- fast in bed tomorrow dear."

"Of course, you know you. have' to hươu the lagn

1 for it."