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Since 1946 there has been a string of British spies: Alan Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs and Bruno Pontecorvo for atomic secrets, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and Blunt. All seemed too impeccably Establishment to be spies, and so did Hollis.
The question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked...
Last week, however, Pincher put the question again in a series of Daily Mail articles. This time the response was deafening. The Times not only picked up the story but reprinted the Daily Mail series, excerpted from Pincher's new book, Their Trade Is Treachery. If the accusations were...
The thrust of the tumult, as of the book, was that Hollis, in the twilight of his undercover career, had come under suspicion as the result of accusations against him within M15 that he had been a Soviet agent. In 1970, Hollis withstood 48 hours of unstinting interrogation as a...
He earned his master's (1921) and doctorate (1922) at Harvard, and taught here from 1922-1923. Returning as an associate professor in 1934, he became a full professor the following year and in 1951 assumed the Hollis professorship, the oldest endowed chair of science in North America.