1961-05-19 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1961.

THE AFTERMATH

of GEORGE BLAKE: NOW SPYING

WHY

was George Blake brought to semi-public trial and the enormity of his treason proclaimed? Why did he not simply vanish as so many secret agents have him vanished before while those he betrayed strove desperately to re- pair the damage?

These are question that are being asked by many who have

me thing been ranneeted with the swift subterraneun vuj - rents of intelligence anal espione

COULD GET MORE RUTHLESS STILL

By TOM POCOCK

When, later

British visiting

that day, the

British occupation authorities fool: the matter up with the Russiart command all knowledge of the man was denied.

Of recent years there has been prison by a

or-os n eficial. something of a truce Western diplomat put it to me - growth of trade unionist" in international espionage.

Even those countries which in peacetime tend to execute all suspected sples have killed only their own nationals who have turned traitor, imprisoning, and often granting generous remis- Skon of sentence. to: foreign agents.

Bi during the first post-wor crendo it was often a very dif- ferent story. Nothing, of course, was publisher.

Dramatic

'1've

Tw centres of this

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A British party-including the meial who had reported the man's whereabouts-was taken to the prison. They were shown be cell where he was said to have been

Another prisoner was in it. and both he and his neighbour- ity recll-males and the warders all sware that he had been there for months. Of course they had never heard of the

n

what

One answer tes that turkay the inteiligenre services of East and West are

the betok of open war. Had Balte been killer by at enarter-spy, certainly The Roseann would have taken wift reprisals 0:73 British agent whom

hod

betrayed.

As it is,

ruthlessness Mr Macnlllon Mr Harold Watkinson. Defence Ministen, must be wait- jour

for anxiously

nows of British Bam aliun ugni Intelligener in tworkts overseas,

Torted abroad that six British apple have already been arrested but the total could be higher.

the

dramatic violence were Bedin and Vienna. In Berlin

often dul The opponents

not and bother to prepare on claborate cover-Mory, and casualties were sanotimes fand shot dead. per- park. a dark alley hops in a

e touting in a ranal.

Ja Vienna spies and counter- sples used the swers to cross between the Soviet und Western zones--just as shown in the alm The Third Man-and they did not hesitate to kill.

start

Ruins Should the killing there would undoubtedly be a return to the rough, bloody recret war fought between East an

immediate

West in the

post-war years.

Vielves.

These men sometimes jus dis- dentble agent appeared. One who has ent:ished in Vienna was recognised beltind the bars of a reli irz 1

Russian-controlled

CLOAK

VIEW & the fact that every spy, is a most effective deterrent Beitish ngent oversens must now against amateur traitors.

he alerted, it seems the least jaketv.

con-

Show trial

If the Russians now adopt

Second The agent can be auiully deported. Since the wat surprising mumbers of diplomats have been deported for espion-my of the first threg courses against those British agents age by both sides.

they have detected and who So long as the agent cerned has not learned too much have not been able to escape, that could be ot

use to his the espionage campaign is like employers after his repatriation to continue much as before, with the British Secret Sorvica this is obviously thu most hutnate course as they only attempting to find now sources reprisals it bringt counter-deportations: -

about arc

No doubt

be

Third Agents ran exchanged. Negotiations for this are currled it in the greatest seeney in there is no doubt vanished that The Americans and Bus- sins hav exchanged severat ht have captured spies since 1945. This

10 Fourth. -The agent can he happened to George Blake suggesting the f um assuming brought to trial and potenret that M16 is capable of the saine to a long term of imprisonment

be Soviet This course can. ut course. +}ut

mmenced 10 deportation OT interence Service.

do pvchanne 34 the need arises What will the Russkres with the British agents whose addresses--if not intel name:

Jiral le their persong - must known throughout their counter- espionage system"

There are ave coursen open to then.

First, that the arent be left

hope that alone in the

he himself 102 bu un- believes

He is then fed with Information which

detectes! misleading he will transmit to London. In

SECRECY

of Information.

If there is a show trial and enptured agents are given lung

sentences thoro prlsun

WHI iloubilem be reprisals against koown Hussian agents in the Wes! Wh are at present being handled by the first method.

te

if on the other hand there executions, the knivus would probably come out. this happens may be. para- doxically enough, the Russiana who would suffer most.

Their OversODA

I many limon than thu Brlilsh and larger organisation Iurger than all the Western Intelligence services combled,

espionage

While imprisoned the agent can therefore presents a target so he interrogated and attempts wide that it would be impossibl

can be made to persunde him to detect. This is now the fate of most captured secret agents.

Fifth--The spy con he killed, This may be done secretly remi-seerelly so as to act as u warning to his colleagues. Or he can be tried and sentenced to death.

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Indiclal killing, while it has never deterred the professional

If Hon. Members desire further information let them road the New York Times, Lo Figaro,

Die Zeit, etc., etc... .”

A danger in the Eichmann trial

I

HAVE just come back

LOKKOR EZDrank Servios

to man.

In fact, it seems likely that in the West had to wage a com- pletely ruthless, all-out war on the Communist Intelligenre net- inillet dampka works 1 coukl

for in excess of that for which George Blake in responsiblo.

There must be anxious mon in Whitehall who hope thu Rus- plans believe this, too.

-London Etpreis Service).

George Blake - why didn't he just vanish?

The salesman warned me but nothing could put me off

...

The day I bought

a cine

camera

MY

camera troubles began

the night the Dyers ask- ed us round to see their holiday movies from Italy.

The projector purred away. We watched the Dyers strut about pinkly inglorious in movic-colour, lapping up ice- cream as if the world's entire

supply were running out, putting a half-nelson on a plate of spaghetti, and bulging too roundly in places normally held in with a purple intake of breath.

abrewn

by HOWARD BYGRAVE

bered that the light meter was in the car.

I came back with the meter,

The Chinese water torture eyeing the girls in the frontier set the scale for flim sensitivity was pure gin Azz-against this taloon.

relentless cascade of desirable

at

which The magic figures "48" swung technical embellishment would have tested the enduranec in front of me. They came of William Friese Green himself. the end of a seale, and they mennt that Lo particular Then came the dark bit. Be-

camera would photographin There were basic cameras fore our eyes the happy holiday- where you dialled the sun as

slow motion. makers vanished into

you would dial telephone

Here, at last, was a chance to number, cameras with zoom, DON'T LET 10 which oozed over the screen

see my golf swing as it really cameras with turrets, cameras 19 ..controlled power, as I the Dyers that thought for themselves, declare, or limp kunacy as

the bear that didn't explained, meaning the firms, and cameras

pro insists, probably to disguise the fact that he is, as yel, unable to adapt his teaching to my Individual style,

like melting chocolate,

*Under-exposed,"

IT BE TURNED INTO A TOURIST SHOW not the family's holiday appear thinking about.

from the Eichmann by DONALD EDGAR

trial in Jerusalem to try

to recollect in tranquill

ity in the sanity of unimportant England-the meaning glass box. of this affair.

In one way I would like to forgel it nil, it was a harrow- ing experience.

I saw some of the most im portant and most experienced journalists from all over the world break down in tears when they heard of such thlous as the sweets which were offered to the children before they were escorted into the gas chambera,

Terrifying

behind

his

You wish, at times, that it had never happened, that all the terrible memories had not been resurrected from the death fac torles of Germany.

A symbol

And then as I was sitting thinking about this I read the

ance.

"Perhaps

An army of cameras stretched carera line of cliorus girle lifting their

almest with No risk them of this eart altractions, pleasure, "I think that we mess." shall be fortunata

enough Under-exposed

But the wifo, a charming bought an electric-eye

We should have across the counter like line upon

and cultivated woman, said which works it all cut for you. skirts early to reveal their

to

mc,

to have tickets for Elchmann trial.”

I was rather rude.

be

Only snag

"This is it." I said.

you

it

10

The salesman's

preuzi inoustache drooped. "Are sure, sir," he cautioned. "It's or not they

rather complicated for tho were one up in the holiday that the trial of Elchmann should

begimer.

need - you'll be held in Jermualem, the centre

league. Something had to

What about the electric eye? light meter to see it up. Scure- done. of faith and humanity.

This, it seems, is one of the few thing more simple, perhaps. When I left, the audience in

When the Italian sun had set eyes that never go

bloodshot. 6lart with. "If you think you will come Jeaned forward and pronounced risk of an incorrect blink.

the dining-roam, my wife A child can work it without the the court was thinning, Inevit- ably the main journalists and

out of that court the same wo-death TV commentators of the world,

sentence on the box having attended the beginning man that you were when you of the trial, were moving off for went in, you will be vastly mis-Brownie which had whored our Hoildays for eight years, loyally the time being to other assign- taken, 1 is one of the most recording the perks and valleys terrifying experiences anyone ef pleasure, and creaking in can go through."

sywipality with our son's growing pains.

ments.

This means that thero report from the Warsaw Ghelto, are places to

sparo in the So terrible?

"I will not forget the volcea of auditorium-for it is

the small children: A plece of auditorium which looks

en.

at

The emilo Inded from the

bread; a pleet of bread,' but so the incredible, mad scone face of the wife and the hus- one could give them a piece of in which events of impos- aro.related In And then it all becomes real giblo horror

Not that they were even al- bread." ways as kind—If that is the adjective to unto the children. again when you realise this trial calm, matter-of-fact terms.

There was the terrifying story had to be held and although

Inevitably, some of the more when children were being part- Eldunann was only a superior ed from their mothers. One transport officer, he had to be important American, British and French--and other nationalities mather creamed and clung to brought to trial, because he is a her child. An SS Guard finally symbol of what the Germans as -who clubbed the child to death and a race did.

she asked.

Relentless

His words bounced off scaled cais.

The camera would go with us to Bournemouth

the next day for excrciso over the low hurdles of the amateur movie courat ...scascapes, bathing cones, landscaped gardens, and the

It is to the camera what the automatic gearbox is to the car The only arag is that I have a sneaking regard for the old crash gear change. I like to do things for myself-ever t the ultimate risk of enshrouding e everything in a chucolate-brown fog,

What else, then, was on offer?

rub

A flourish

san.

and pointed the glass end of the place where my son had been standing, He was not there.

At least, he was there but only a part of him was ca view. He was trying to stand on his head in the water and the ex-

certainly posed aren was

по subject for an F2.8 lena.

So laborious

While waiting for hle breath to run out, I transferred the meter reading to the cino scale by twisting another knob and so arrived at the cofrect exposure.

With the meter back in ita zipped-up case, I snt the expo- and sure dial of the camere, looked through the view-Onder at my un,

He was treading water tranil- eally and seemed rather fired.

We went through the SAMO ritual many more times at Bournemouth, cach as laborious at the one before.

** 1hn

The processed films have not yet come back, so I can, for the moment, still strut around the mechanical genius of family until the lentile and Inescapable evidence of what I fear may be our very

O'NA chocolate-coloured flop filckers on the screen.

Despite the illustrations

be

and

"We must get a cinc-camera,” she said. "Have a look at some tomorrow, particularly those electric-eye ones,"

This from a woman who is bands it so terrible then?” unable to wink even one of her

All the world has taken A From the beach my 13-year- twirl in the movlo market. The old son splashed into the "I cannot tell you how happy non-electric eyes. And for whom

viewAnder of a I am that I have only tot one the

camera Japanese are in there offering “Plang on,” I said "whille film the dials and the embellishment a chal-cheapneas; the presents us impossible more day to spend here." 1

Gennans and you."

I am now convinced that, as a repiled.

lenge as Fidel Castro's brand to Swiss rely on precision; the

far fron mechanical man, I Czechs on a government

Out from its new unmarked Of course, I can understand an electric razor salesman,

shall never

truly com- with a proud petant cinephotograpder that people who Dre visiting

sidy; the Americans on exciting leather

until are visiting Israel are Israel, especially If they are

words and dazzling sales porn-

Nourish came the camer.

the premium band propio t asking for tickets so that they Jews, want to participate in a

phlets; and the French

I took off the lens cops Lytham St Annes lot Emic out said to the mother: "Well, you In Israel they are divided may watch the dreadful scene.

uniquo trial-e irial ngainst one

(paragraph five in the, lustruc 00-la-la.

on hire. ilon book), The man in charge of" the

slipped my hand amongst themselves whether this There is a danger in tbl of the principal officers of those

6,000,000 seine department was neat, dark, Rummaging among the jargon through the wrist strap (para- With his There were stories of senne trial should be held. There are and I expressed it very forcibly who exterminated

prepared to talk I came up with the chastuing raph ske), spun the turret to persistence we might get como- le butchery, of sadistic humt many who feel that Eichmann to high Israeli ameint after I their race in clrcumstances of plump and

about his stock unt closing thought; Busing a cine camera bring the telephoto lons into Jution-eli Jews being should have been handed over had met by chance on American Impossible horror.

as

i like buying a caravan-there operation (parapraph (2), forced to lick the pavements to the West German Cavern banico and his wife in the King But, as I

Israeli tine. told this

is always something ນ the weighed up the distance from. How nothing then not one that left one incapable of com- ment to deal with.

David HowL

official, they must be careful not

Words I had never heard others that is missing from the camera to son, and

turned a peritivo achievement-emerged prehension.

to turn this into a bow.

before tumbled from undor his one you fancy. They were paying a visit to Iti 1101 n show-it in

back my fancy (paragraph 107. from my first cine-camera? Israel-hey were happy to do pilera exposition of cruelty, rushed out moustache

*fied. Lap dissolve, procket

So you change your mind, checked the depth of focus now Oh, yes. so. And I was gindut their The cruelty in which, unter

correctors, then change it again with the revealed on a red and. black My son is an immeasurably I mælt, differ from this happiness because they would tunately, all mankind is in adjustable parallax.

backward winding facility, qu frenzied uncertainty at TV secondary scalo (figure X-13 in better agimener, court with Eichmann sitting countors X feel there is a certain per the miracles, that have, boon" "volved,

Idible wqrning signal.

cowboy back from à caille-drive samply diagram)~~and remem- thero Impassivo, sallow and symbolic significance in the fact done in this extraordinary land.

wanted it. Here it is"

I do not know how one

can go on looking day after day down on that macabre

Moving off

*London Express Service),

・

callbrated knurled wheel to

Where.

brains and my

-(Lundels Kypress karuice).