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...both London and Moscow, there was considerable confusion about the important Soviet official who defected to the West 18 months ago, was thoroughly interrogated in the U.S., and is now a resident of Britain. The man's name was given as Anatoly Dolnytsin, and the Daily Telegraph alertly noted that a diplomat of the same name had served for nine months in the Soviet embassy in London. Moscow's Izvestia then got into the act, insisting that, far from defecting, Dolnytsin had left his London post in 1961 and had been working ever since at the foreign ministry...
...also in London, one of the oddest of the spy cases came to light when the government admitted that it was granting asylum to Anatoly Dolnytsin, a former senior Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents...
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