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SNOOZING M.P.S PERKED UP WHEN BRITISH PRIME Minister John Major made an unexpected disclosure last week. During a parliamentary speech, Major declared the existence of MI6, Britain's international espionage agency. Although volumes have been written about the 83-year-old spy ring, bureaucrats have always maintained the polite pretense that the organization didn't exist. Major also named Sir Colin McColl as the division's long-standing head. Britain's Who's Who currently lists the MI6 chief as a counsellor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who enjoys cycling, tennis and the classics...
...Five during the war," he told the London paper the Mail on Sunday. While working at Britain's code and cipher school, he provided the Soviets with decoded messages that helped them defeat the Germans at Kursk in 1943. Later in the war, while serving in MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service, he told the Soviets about Allied plans for the future of Yugoslavia. Reflecting on his wartime misdeeds, he says, "I hope this will finally put an end to the 'Fifth Man' mystery...
Angleton's fixation on Soviet penetration probably began with allegations that his best friend in Britain's MI6 intelligence service, Kim Philby, was a KGB mole. Philby removed all doubt when he defected to the Soviets in 1963. "After the Philby case," says an Angleton friend, "Jim was never the same." But the full scope of Angleton's obsessive mole hunt was not apparent until his dismissal. Agents sent to clear out his secret vault at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters discovered hundreds of files from his Ahab-like search for Soviet counteragents within the ranks...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
...tipping off Burgess and Maclean, an act that was detected, cost Philby a shot at the top job in the British Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, and could have cost him a good deal more. Yet despite two secret trials and a 1955 accusation on the floor of Parliament -- an incident that ironically led Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan to proclaim him cleared of disloyalty -- Philby was allowed to go on working for MI6. Until he defected, he free- lanced for the service, which also helped him find employment as a journalist. In an interview last January with British Journalist...