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Then he read parts of Fuchs's confession which, the Crown attested, Fuchs signed as "true" (other parts were withheld for reasons of security). It was a remarkable psychological document of Warped, brilliant intelligence and twisted morality.
After Prosecutor Humphreys finished reading the confession, he called witnesses. The most important was William Skardon, one of Britain's topflight military intelligence agents (he had grilled Lord Haw-Haw). By October 1949, British Military Intelligence and the FBI had narrowed their suspicions down to Fuchs, and Skardon was...
Fuchs is a type of traitor which the U.S. has recently and reluctantly come to recognize. It is the type of the intelligent, talented, apparently sincere man who suffers from Communism's moral cancer, the man who can calmly do wrong and pretend to himself that he is doing...
The FBI in Washington said that interrogators had had little trouble drawing a confession from Fuchs. He was taken to grimy Bow Street Police Court and there charged with betraying the official secrets of his adopted country. He listened impassively to the charges:
Stranger in the House. One of the few citizens of Loudun who seemed beyond suspicion of any intrigue was slim, soft-spoken Marie Besnard, a matron of 53, who owned six houses in the town, the local White Horse inn, and a number of thriving stud farms. Marie had acquired...