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...Called Lucy, Accoce and Quet...
...CALLED LUCY, by Pierre Accoce and Pierre Quet, recounts the career of Swiss-based Master Spy Rudolf ("Lucy") Roessler, who accurately warned the Allies of every invasion from Poland to Russia itself-and was not believed...
According to Authors Accoce and Quet, Roessler first tried to feed his inside dope to Britain, France and the U.S., but was not believed because he would not admit to his source. Then began a liaison with Moscow's MGB-known to him as "the Center." Stalin at first ignored Roessler's pipeline poop on "Barbarossa." But when the Germans invaded as advertised, the Center quickly began paying Roessler $1,600 a month for everything he could transmit...
...Russians, the Swiss government locked Roessler up for one year. Virtually penniless, he died in 1958; his death went unremarked by the Allies he had tried to serve. Yet the facts of his ring's existence and its ways of operating, as reported by Authors Accoce and Quet, are grudgingly accepted as true by Swiss, West German and British intelligence personnel. Even Allen Dulles, who operated for the OSS in Switzerland during the war, acknowledges Roessler as a "fantastic source." He was that and much more-but the code on his motivation has yet to be broken...
...dogma which carried Communism to triumph in China. He had the opportunism to capitalize on Japan's aggression: "Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise and 10% fight the Japanese." He had the ruthlessness to cut down obstacles: "A revolution is no invitation to a ban quet." He had the brilliance, cunning and tenacity to win with his methods, even though Moscow, traditionally building on an industrial proletariat for years, thought he was wrong, backed other factions. Married: four times (including one wife executed by the Nationalists). Children: seven or eight, including five abandoned to peasants during...