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...nearly three hours Burdett-poised, precise, prissy-detailed his secret career as a Communist and a spy. He first worked with a Communist clique in the American Newspaper Guild, joined the party in 1937. "My whole life was in the party," he said. "I was an emotionally fanatic person." In January 1940 the party tapped him for espionage...
...party membership in the U.S. and of spy service abroad on behalf of the Kremlin. As sometimes happens, he triggered a chain reaction of disclosures about other people. Almost all had been or were still connected with the business of reporting the news, like the witness himself: Winston Burdett, 41, now a $20,000-a-year Columbia Broadcasting System radio and TV commentator...
Long Way from Brooklyn. Burdett, son of a prosperous civil engineer, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude at 19, worked five years on the Brooklyn Eagle, went abroad in 1940. For CBS he reported the war from Norway to North Africa, later covered Washington. Rome and the United Nations. Last week, after reporting the U.N. anniversary session at San Francisco for CBS, he went to Washington for a hearing in the Senate caucus room...
Through an elaborate clandestine ritual, a meeting was arranged in a Union Square cafeteria with a stranger who told Burdett: "We have a mission for you in Finland," which was then fighting the Russian invasion. The stranger: the late Soviet spy chief, Jacob Golos. Reporter Burdett, financed by the party, arranged to travel as an unpaid roving correspondent, accredited by the Brooklyn Eagle...
...against his own child-labor and childhood shock. Yet Dickens was not only a fighter with words. He fought hand to hand with the dragon of poverty in the slums of London, and his sword was the mighty bankroll of "the richest heiress in all England," a Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts. The Heart of Charles Dickens is the story of their high-purposed and sometimes amusing friendship, told in a selection from more than 500 letters, most of them published for the first time, which Dickens wrote his lady bountiful...