1958-08-23 — Page 7

SECRET AGENT

THE ` CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1958.

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She wanted to be a 'somebody Business

SOME 30 years ago that great master

of By Intelligence technique, the late Sir George McGill, gave me a piece of advice I have never forgotten.

"The most dangerous type of spy," he said, "is one imbued with an ideology, because he is able to convince himself that he is doing right." He added as an afterthought. "Plain women who take up espionage are also dangerous. They have no distractions, and spying fills the gap in their lives left by the lack of love affair"

His words came back to me vividly

I read through the long pad terurais examination of Kathleen Mary Willsher, is tant registrar in the office of the United Kingdom High Commiss- Joner in Canada, custodian of top-secret documents, and self- confessed spy for the Soviet Government.

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Marxist ideology. She tried to have two loyalties--to her cm- ployer and to Morcow. When caught in the mesh, she admit fed it all.

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fascinating

Her story example of how an ideological Communist can, in hands

mare clever than her own, be mould- ed like modellir clay to become a dedicated spy, neither asking nor expecting praise or reword of any kind."

Kathleen "Willsher-known "EIL" in the secret recorda the Russian Mary Attache bs Ollawa, and in the telegrams she sent Moscow-was, the lime How much Communiam Kath- of her arrest in 1045, a woman leen Wilsher acquired in the late In her middle thirties, of ples-wenties as a student at the sant but ordinary appearance.

DEDICATED SPY

She looked what she was, the type of office-worker who does a souline job and stays in it, mov- ing slowly but steadily higher up the reale, avoiding affairs of the heart, engaging th a very dull and Jhnited preful #te outsile the oro, attractivi, to nam and apprentis unstirpeted by

them.

But Kathleen Willsher was also a convinersd, one might al- moet say fanatical, Communist, completely imbued with the

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

to

London School of Economics IS not known. She graduated with a knowledge of French, German and some Russian, went Canada in 1930 at the age of 25 as a shorthand-typist and got a job in the office of the United Kingdom High Commissioner.

WILLINGLY

Lt.-Colonel John Baker White

decision as between your master

"The case of Kathisen Willsher

ing for, on the one hand, and the pacs to which this attitude of the Communist Party on the 'party loyalty' and obedience favour of the Communist Party?" leaders, even when other aspects other hand... you decided in can be put by ulisėrupulous

of the Indoctrination courses have not been completely RubDesful."

and the ecuntry you were work- offers a striking Hustration of

She answered with one word; **Yes,"

To the question, "When you made your decision you were fully aware, not only of the or- dinary loyalty you owed to your country for which you working, but also of the provi- alons of This Official Secrets Act!" Sho gave the same answer: "Yes."

wore

SHOWED NO CONCERN She added later, "I knew I can be shot quite easily it necessary," She showed no particular con- cern at this possibility.

The conversation went on!

"You were ready to do any- thing the Party usked you to?"

"Yes."

"I suppose even in 1995

you knew it was an improper thing. to da?"

"Yes,"

She joined the Canadian Com- munist Party in 1930 and be- came a member of o "study group," which seated itself i

This was not a juvenile delin- coffee, wailles and Marxism,quent answering the questions, was wound up in 1839, probably but a highly educated woman. because of the waIZ,

Kathleen Willher did not heritate for one second when she signed the Official Secrets Ael "On June 17, 1939, she signed, declaration in 1939, and on May willingly and without demur, 3, 1946 she pleaded guilty to the Official Secrets het By 1942 having broken It, She did not she was assistant registrer in the disclose what she had passed on Migh Commissioner's Offee, to Zavolin, but the telegrams handling and registering all in- soul by him to Moscaw provided coming and outgoing letters and some insight into the type of in- telegrams, including many of A Jormation he obtained from her,

nigoly sceret nature.

False-Card Less Than ployed in the official Cangan

Brilliant

By OSWALD JACOBY TARD Luck Joe won East's Hades with the ace

and led the queen of clubs for a finesse. The inesse lost to East's

Que document she handed over was a copy of a highly secret repart from the Canadian Ambassador 11 Moscow; Mr

in 1942, she met a woman em-

Bureau of Statistics who Wts also a Communist and mem- Wilgress, to the Canadian Prime ber of the Soviet spy sel. Tals Mister. woman tuvited Kahleen Wi- sher to join another study group, three members of whien, iner- dentally, were already spying for Russia.

Burvants.

All were saior civil

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I have read the record of the interrogation of Kathleen Willaber more than 50 times, seeking to discover some- thing of the workings of

her

ming. To this day I and it very difficult to understand.. Perhaps.

king and East promptly shoi Willsher had me: Fred Rose, back the deuce of hearts. West' a lending member of the Cana queen knocked oul dummy'dan Coinwulst Party and King and Joe trid the diamond recruiting agent for spies, the snost accurate conclusion was

back West took his king for finesse.

inat arrived u by the Royal and a heart

return erubled even him secret information at Commission which examined East. to set the contract with that time. In 1942 she passed the case. three heart tricks,

internation through Brother

As 1935,

and

contact. I landed up in Its report said: "There I go again," said Joe. The same place on the desk "Two Anesses wrong and bril- of the Soviet Military Attache

lent defence was necessary to in Ottawa, Colonel Zabotin. beat me fus time."

"Well, you gave the defence all the help you could," said North

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"What

difference did

make?" asked Joe,

ARRESTED

"The indoctrination COUTECS in the study groups are

ep- parently calculated not only o inculcate C high degree of loyalty to the Party' and 'obe- When Igor Gouzenito walked dience to the Party', but to in- out of Soviet Embassy on still in the mind of the adher- September 6, 1945 and disclosed ent the view that loyalty and the whole spy-ring to the Cana- obedience to Leadership of diam authorities, Kathleen Will- this organisation takes prece sher was arrested along with dence over his loyalty to Can- other members of "The Net." ado, entities him to disregard There ensued one of the most his oaths of allegiance and remarkable interrogations ever accrecy, and thus destroys his recorded in the history of espion- integrity as a citizen."

age.

One question put to her wIE; "Being led upon to make

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The CommissionET'S continued:

BY. THE WAY

by Beachcomber

➜EADING of a dinner of busi- partners:

report

Several youngsters

Anees men of which they only hurl 'bottles and glasses were all "glued to their seats" Into the street with the permis- during the cloquent speech of sion of their hostess. their chairman, I realised the

power of advertising.

Could there be any better way

"Happy days!”

for a glue-manufacturer to test TT is bad news for gourmets hla wares?

imagine him that the Import from Japan 1: saying: "It wasn't his speech, it of ants covered with chocolate was glue that did the trick, You, is on a laughably amall scale. sce-none of you can get up." Very wealthy people, of course,

A lot replied North. "Your And then he distributes gift have them flown from Japan llly false-card marked you with bottles of the glue to all pres when they give a party, They ace-king of spades and warned sent, while smiling walters set are the ambrosin which recom- East that there was no future in to work to shoe-horn them out panies the latest nectar: two

the spade sull. If you had won of their chairs.

with the king, East could not

have located the ace since maybe A narrow escape you would have started with

piping holl"

idng-Jack. In that case he might | "Chef, Beruc this have returned the spade where- upon you would have made the I contract, bed breaks and all."

North was right. Joe's false- enrd was worse than useless,

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A--Paka. You have told your full story and periner has signed

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TODAY'S QUESTION

Your partner has opened one club and jumped ió' two · No- trump after your one diamond деролие. You hold: DATA WAS ORITES 412

What do you do?

Auswer on Monday

salt-spoons uf Zulu nangat, blended with Esidmo klubba, Afghan champagne. Briush cognac, kuaas, lentil-Juice, sour traveller milk, Greek hock, rice-cidor, and Just a dash of mint-sauce. Served ice-cold, with an unripe loganberry floating on it, this is the drink the old cow died of.

The hungry chieftain cried. The cannibals prepared the pot, And pushed the wretch inside, "See! My United Nations pass!" The frightened victim batoled, “I am a Swede, you silly ass!" The chieftain stood appalled. "What kind of joke is this, my

man?"

He asked, "Do you take me for A barbarous vegetarian?

- Chef, show this Swede tho

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L'usage du monde

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seene says that good man- ners among the young are not as dead as some people imagine. I am told that mon who bes thrown a girl too violently during a dance will often ask nameone to help her to her seal. A man who drops a elgarolte into a girl's glar sometimes fishes it out and hands the glow back with a picmant smile

And thera Bro storica of "escorts" who even bring own drink to pour over

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„KETIKOBANDA, KOLUTION I

"MIL Willsher's evidence. takers a whole, shows that she felt her own position in the Communist Party to be 4 YC- Inilvely humble one, that her ofte important contribution to the cause of the Party lay in the transmission of the secret Infor- mation to which her official poslilon gave her access, and flat it was expected of her that she should not hesitate to make this information available on request. to the Party leadership."

TRUE REASON?.

Perlaps in that last sentence why is to be found the reason Kathleen Willcher became a spy, and why, when caught, she nd- mitled everything. She wanted to be a "Somebody even if it was only in the squalid half-world of Marxist "study groups" and the mel of Soviet espionage.

then she had expected to be. She In the end, she was luckler

was not shot; three years' Imprl- somment was her punishment. When she was sentenced a look of surprise came over her face. Or was it of gralltude-for a temporary release from a double life, and all its complications?

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