Word: petrovics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus British Critic Cyril Connolly once described two flagrant and flamboyant British traitors: Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 44, and Donald Duart Maclean, 42. Last week the British government, prodded by the revelations of Vladimir Petrov, the Russian MVD boss who defected in Australia, told a bit more about the British spies who escaped in 1951 and are now apparently alive somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The 3,500-word white paper was not the whole story, but with the facts contributed by Petrov, it made possible for the first time a cohesive account of The Case of the Missing...
...promising future. Both moved in Communist circles. It was just before the Spanish Civil War, and both were outspoken in their dissatisfaction with the conduct of world affairs, Maclean to the point of declaring that he wanted to work for the Russians. It was at this time, says Petrov, that they were recruited into the Soviet espionage service. Maclean entered the Foreign Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined the BBC, transferred to a propaganda section of the War Office with the outbreak of World War II. Maclean was already carving out a brilliant career in the Paris embassy and spending...
...ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked a rumble of discontent among his party's Catholic right wing. But the rumble grew into tumult when Evatt assailed the Petrov spy investigation (TIME, Sept. 27) as "a foul conspiracy" hatched by the conservative Liberal government. He carried on so melodramatically that the investigating Royal Commission finally barred him from participating in the hearings...
...Petrov Case...
YOUR REPORT OF THE PETROV CASE [TIME, SEPT. 27] CONTAINS A HIGHLY INACCURATE REFERENCE TO ME. YOU STATE THAT PETROV HAD BEEN SUPPLIED WITH SOME VERY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN DOCUMENT J "PRE. PARED IN PART WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED BY [LABOR PARTY LEADER HERBERT] EVATT'S TWO PRIVATE SECRETARIES." THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMISSION HAS STRESSED THAT THE MATTER ALLEGEDLY ATTRIBUTED TO ME WAS NOT OF A CONFIDENTIAL CHARACTER, WHILE THE THREE JUDGES REFERRED TO IT AS "INNOCUOUS" AND FURTHER COMMENT BY TWO OF THEM WAS THAT THERE WAS NO SUGGESTION WHATEVER THAT I HAD BEEN A SOURCE OF INFORMATION...