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i ee see ae ae mien aS ca nM aN dermal eth awe, cones O | The Secret Services "Mix the Brushes” 2. Why in England? There are several reasons: Firstly, because their special connections with the U.S.A, have been a major objective of Soviet espionage: the naval bases of Otan, the atomic submarine bases of the U.8., the joint manufacture of rockets, planes, A-bombs or H-bombs, etc,, so many precious data! Furthermore, because the “establishment™ was corrupt, the Russians, who comprehended it, fully exploited the weaknesses, decadence and ignorance (call it as you wish) of members of this elite. Furthermore, because the cosmopolitan character of London easily permits the infiltration of agents with false identity papers or false passports. This is due to the fact that London, during the war, was a fantastic crossroad of all races and nationalities and largely permitted "sleeping agents" to install themselves. (A "sleeper" can wait fifteen years before he becomes active,) Finally, because the multiplicity of the British services made them lose their efficiency: services of the navy, air force, MI 5 and MI 6 (espionage and counterespionage), "special branches" of the Foreign Service, etc,; we count at least six services which, in a given case, (the Profumo Affair, for example), “mixed the brushes" to use a vulgar expression, 3. Let us be just. The English gained certain wictories, For example, it iz to their credit, that the defection of Aleg Penkovsky, must be registered, a Soviet citizen, decorated eight times during the war, “a scientific military expert" in the Council of Ministers of the USSR, who worked over 18 months for the EngIish, He was recruited for love of money by an English agent, Greville Wynne, an astonishing personage who went through the popular democracies in a truck exhibiting British industrial material. Under this excellent “cover” Wynne recruited informers and was a liaison agent between Hungary, Germany, East Germany and Poland. The traveling agent then recruited Penkovsky who furnished to the English material which largely compensated them for the defection of Burgess-McLean. Penkovsky