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...Turkish truck; then he went to Turkey and walked across the border into Soviet Armenia. In The Spy I Married, his American third wife, Eleanor, who later joined him for a time in Moscow until he threw her over for the wife of his fellow defector, Donald Maclean, has a different version: she says he told her that "he walked a good deal of the way." E. H. Cookridge, Philby's onetime colleague in the British Secret Service, who is now a multivolume espionage historian, provides an account that rings with spooky authenticity in some details. He says flatly...
...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
...correct an obviously bona fide error of your reviewer of The Ghost in the Machine [March 1]? The term "schi-zophysiology," intended to indicate the mental condition of Homo sapiens, was not coined by me, but by Dr. Paul MacLean of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. The speculative conclusions of the book are my own responsibility, but the neurophysiological evidence on which they are based is derived from the Papez-MacLean theory of emotions...
What with Burgess and Maclean, Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain's postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever produced the fascination and national soul-searching, however, that have marked the case of Harold ("Kim") Philby, the Communist double agent who became chief of British counterespionage operations against Russia. After four months of coverage by the British press, Philby's remarkable exploits are now the subject of a debate about the nature and value of the British Establishment, the traditional ruling class...
...Topaz, Uris (2) 3. Christy, Marshall (3) 4. The Instrument, O'Hara (5) 5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8) 6. Vanished, Knebel (9) 7. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4) 8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (7) 9. The Chosen, Potok (6) 10. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean...