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Most old structures have bugs, but these were different. Tipped off by a Red defector, security men in the 50-year-old U.S. Embassy in Moscow broke into the walls of several rooms and found more than 40 microphones planted 8 in. to 10 in. inside the walls. The bugs* were estimated to be twelve years old, going back to the Stalin era, but still eminently operational. Lamented one U.S. official: "Here we've been using the most up-to-date methods to pick up the most sophisticated bugs, and what happens? They had what amounts...
...Leamas is outraged by such chatter. Gruffly he shakes off the question and takes the job. Dutifully he deteriorates in public: getting himself fired from his position in London, drinking heavily, finally brawling his way into a term in jail-all to give him proper credentials for becoming a defector to the East. In private, he begins creating the character he is about to play, a projection of his own personality that must, nevertheless, be proof against self-betrayal by a natural impulse, a personal habit. Grafting a novelist's perceptions to the taut skills of a suspense-tale...
...left no will, but now a letter has been found in his Moscow apartment describing how British Defector Guy Burgess, who died last August, wanted his estate divided up. Everything is to go to four friends, including Harold Philby, who tipped off Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951 that the British Secret Service was closing in, then early this year himself fled to Russia. No one is saying whether Maclean was included too. The letter does not constitute a legal will, but Burgess' brother Nigel will nonetheless comply, though the spy's British holdings, worth $17,416, legally...
...more useful to the Soviets was a second Red Chinese defector who may well turn out to be a prize in the Sino-Soviet cold war to date. He was Chou Hsiang-pu, since 1957 a second secretary of Peking's legation in London. Chou was en route back home via Moscow with his wife and two children when he decided to stay in the Russian capital. Word soon leaked out to the Western press, but Kremlin officials clammed up about their catch and refused to confirm or deny the escape. One reason for Moscow's reticence...
...important Chinese defector now in a European country...