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Gave Himself Up After Nine Years As Soviet

Agent

The Spy Who Changed His Mind

By

Lt.-Colonel John Baker White

FOR

OR nearly 40 years, Geneva has been the 'centre for organisations striving for international punce and co-operation. The biggest single build-' ing in this pretty, tidy town on Lake Leman is the Palais des Nations; it is, as well, the home of the International Labour Office and other bodies.

But for an even longer pet lod, Geneva has been a busy centre of international espionage and the Swiss poller have stone of the largest dossiers in the would on sveret agents.

Foute bid to articular quali- festions as a secret agent at that 1 me, to gift ef languages,

wireless knowledge of Uven

Sunt. of a Scottish telegraphy.

former poultry-farmer, sudesman in Manchester, he was

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Today, a large house overloita entless, rather bombastic in- ing the lake is a vite under ground Belt between

Colanet

Nasier and the Algerian rebels. In another house necroy, French work to government agents Break that link.

divdu, but he had sympolity with CommunISHY,

Missing Link

not

popularity with Gesteva's

A "feline traveler": secret agents is easy to under-

Paly member, he had served in stand. In two world wars the International Brigade It: Switzerland has been a neutral island Inse of warring states. Spain, where he was sputted by the late Douglas Springball, one? and Geneva is a natural centre

time secretary-

Young of the of communication. Switzerland

Communist League. later No- is is in the dollar rea, and

Com- Donal Organiser of the inst Agents nowadays like to

Tunis! Party. and ceruiling be paid in dollars or expensive fleer for the Soviet esplazag watches.

Fystron After bring interviewe by Springhill. Fate was sent to n London fut. interviewed by an untamed woman, and posted

Noon Date

So it was to Geneva that Alexander Footy travelled in the autumn of 1939, to Mund out side the General Post Office ni noon, wearing, as ordered, white rearf and carrying a leather bell.

to Geneva,

Although he may not have Fate and ralised it at first, been sent to the very centre of the Red spiders wild of cpion-

IL

titil Τρεις ge Gouzenko hud defected from

Was

the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,

Allied and the

intelligence

archives examined the Gestapo, after the war, that the extent of All he web became apparent.

When a woman with a green parcel in her bag and an ange in her hand said to him, "Where did you buy that bell?" he knew that he had entered the Soviet espionage and counter-espionage espionage service. He remained is ke a g-saw puzzle. one piece of information dovetailing

in for nine years.

"Where did you buy that belt?" she asked. He knew then that

he was in the espionage service.

inte another. In this particular was the missing Picture Foole piece-until, in 1947 ite broke with Russia. returned to Britain and told his part of the story.

Amoot thr documents brought out by Gousenko was a letter

1ermina Rabin- 10 wilch an employee of the Inter- national

Ofice Labour

in Ovneva, working at that flow in Montreal. It read:

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"I have received por tete- Please QTZETL of 23.1.44. inform Glael's family, that she should advise Známensky 19. that Sial alive and works as of old with Lucy. Lucy wanted change the personnel, but funds ran out, Albert is rick and is not in- terested in business. For the

مرادی

vital information on the Navy and Luftwaffe. He was a key man in the organisation that the Gestapo know B3 "Rote Kapelle-the Soviet spy or ganisation inside the Wehrmacht High Command and German Foreign Ofee. He wa linked Into the spy ring in Canada.

The work that Foote did In Geneva and Lausanne was that of collating and passing on in- formation to The Centre" in Moscow by a secret radio trans milier. Like so much routine espionage It was dull work, but important.

MARK WILSON REPORTS" FROM CYPRUS: I GO ON PATROL WITH THE ROYAL HORSE. GUARDS

At 18, Cornet Legge-Bourke Meets Murder

NICOSIA.

WILLIAM LEGGE-BOURKE is eighteen and a Guards officer. One year ago he was a fresh- faced boy at Eton winning a reputation on the playing fields as a batsman. Now he is bronzed by the Cyprus sun and he has seen murder and violence at its worst.

Life has changed rapidiy for through clust storms and living Lenge-Bourke, son of Conserva un deld rations tive Member of Parliament for Ely, 29 It has for Cyprus Ilself these past days.

Protection

It is not the chant of Enosis ftern the Greeks nor the try of Taksim, or partition, from the Turks that is heard in the Island villages today-it is a cull for British soldiers to come and protect them from each other.

Turk trust since the mas-

scnetime ago

Greek fears Turk and fears Creek. There is no between them szere of Gareli which brought civil war

cluse and # top perllously priority call for military reln forcements.

My commander has beon Cornet Legge-Bourke-as the Blues term their second lleuten. ants--irst officer on the scene at Glonell where a Turkish mob hacked six Greeks to death.

Legge-Bourke, national ser. viceman who will go up to Cum- bridge to read law next year, explained his patrol duties.

"Firally we have to set 415 soldiers, to show authority and to give Greeks and Turks nike a feeling of security. Then we ure policemen ferreting out any information we can, and lastly we are politielens trying to win the confidence cf all Cypriots."

Pleased

During calls on countless vii-

Army patrols visiting Isolated lagers I watched this ex-Prest villages today are implored by dent of Elon polllicht society at Greek and Smashed Open the Turks to accept their offer werk, walking into

of empty houses and to stay and down with the men there to Turkish coffee houses to at Ilye with them. And eduy

the quiz them and to answer their Excitement came into his life Greeks snapplly protest to when on November 20. 1943, Covernor if a day passes with questions,

drea visits to their the out members of the "BUPO". Swiss political police, smashed soldiers. open the door of his house and arrested him. He spent the next 10 months in prison.

On his release he

Attacks

by

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Always he began Are you pleased to see us here today? Always they were. Any trouble? No, all was quiet now. That he explained was due to the Au-

of Throughout the island Greek therity

the Army. They went, by way of Paris, to Moscow. There and Turkish villagers feuring agreed.

(rem

Then each other buve

Legge-Bourke would he

spent two

being attacks years,

formed home guard units to ask for reaction to the British "groomed" for a new post.

But disillusion had set In, stand watch over their houses plan for Cyprus and Inva-inby Foole had lost his faith in Com- all night long. And where one there his progress halted. Greeks.

found Heelt vastly would only tay } munism. He had come to see its section has

was for an area then Makarios to answer ad the true face, and his one idea was outnumbered in to escape to the freedom of the they have moved to seek refuge Turks named Dr Kutchuk, democracy-Britain that he elsewhere.

Worst had left nearly 10 years earlier.

New Duties

This tense situation demandi ing blanket coverage of every populated district with military patrols day and night has fully strained the resources of the no small aring here.

Our worst reception on patral village of Pera was at the where we walked into a Greek coffee shop to surprise 20 men work of Sisi, Gisel's famity "Sis" was Rachel Duebendar- In February 1947 he was told

listening to an English language must transfer 10,000 dollars. fer, a vital link in the Geneva to noture of his new duties

hows broadcast on the radio. The transfer must be made set-up between Its director to go to the United States and

A rural area of 1,000 square But when we began asking Hermina personally Alexander Rado the Swles re-build the shattered Soviet

none of them they been given to the questions through NY. in connection Communist Party and contacts espionage machine. In August, miles has

English, with Cle wishice of Mr la the International Labour passing through Berlin to inke Royal Norse Guards the Blues claimed understood

up that assignment. he crossed-to patrol with their armoured Efforts to win a little friendship Helmars."

Office.

the border, into the Western vehicles with the support of a from them falled, even children

refused offers of lemonade. Zone and gave himself up to the company of Foot Guards.

Nearly every house in the vil British authorities.

For men of the Blues it has lage was flying the Greek na- meant as little as six hours sleep tonal Tag. Later I learned that between Zi-hour patrols, and the police are now investigating the unit has been logging up to

a murder in the coffee shop we had visited. 5,000 miles a day.

Who Were They?

"Lucy" remained permanently in the shadows, and even those like Foote, at the centre of things, never really knew who was. But he must have been and may be sulla spy of tremendous ability and dar- ing..

Those whose task li WOS ໄມ he

uncover the Sovlet spy net in Cañada puzzled for many hours over the true meaning of that message. Gouzenko coulch bol help very much, except to say that "Gisel" was a rode word for the Soviet Embassy.

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But who were "Siɛd", "Lucy", "Albert"7 Foote could have given the answers but he was still in the Soviet service.

He had come back to freedom. In 1949 Foole wrote a book, which, with a touch of Irony, he for Sples", called "Handbook Afterwards a rumour WELS But about that all the time he wus In Switzerland he had been a "Lucy" had a contact of the "double agent", working for the the German High British Secret Service As well very top of

Command, and in Ribbentrop's as for the Russians. office He supplied Moscow There was no truth in It. Con- with regular, accurate and up- verled to Communism on the to-date reports on the positions banks of the river Ebro in Spain, of the German forces On the disillusionment came to him in Eastern Front, as well as with "The Centre" in Moscow,

Heat

It is no easy task that LagĄS-

thousands Bourke and

moro soldiers like him have on this

I have just returned from one island, even with Eeka quiet. It of these patrols with the Royal is a heartbreaking job to try to Horse Guards, a rugged tour of win the confidence of men whe duty in the near bilsterlag hent candidly say that one man does Inside the armoured cars, with the thinking for them all. And the sun temperature way above that man is Makarlos the enemy

driving of all soldiers in Cyprus. 100 degrees. It meant

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