Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary Ure). She is a sort of Green Berette, a combination of Mata Hari, Annie Oakley and the Dragon Lady...
...General Sir Stewart Menzies, 78, who ran Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) from 1939 to 1951; in London. Said to be a model for "M," the spy chief of James Bond novels, Menzies is conceded to have outwitted his Nazi counterparts-but not the Russians, who planted Turncoat Kim Philby in M.I.6's counter-intelligence section and compromised Britain's secrets until 1963, when Philby escaped to the Soviet Union...
...Nagasaki-type bomb. Greenglass pleaded guilty before testifying, got a 15-year sentence after the trial, and is now free. > Harry Gold, the courier, is also now free. He testified that in June of 1945, his Soviet-consul spymaster, Anatoli Yakovlev, sent him to pick up information from Turncoat Physicist Klaus Fuchs in Santa Fe and from Greenglass in Albuquerque, where he signed a registration card in his own name at the Hotel Hilton. At the time of the Rosenberg trial, Gold had already pleaded guilty and was serving a 30-year sentence for conspiring with Fuchs...
Denis Hillier, a middle-aged spy looking forward to retirement, embarks on his last mission: to kidnap a turncoat British scientist named Roper, who is cooking rocket fuel for Russia. Adventures both sexual and gastronomic occur en route, for Hillier is a gluttonous satyr. Men die bloodily, some of them propelled into the hereafter by Hillier himself. The mission fails, not for want of Hillier's trying, but because his quarry refuses to go back...
...defectors, a dozen came back to the U.S., five took up residence in other parts of the world, and one died in China. Last week Clarence S. ("Skippy") Adams, 37, a slender Negro from Memphis who was captured in North Korea in late 1950, became the 18th turncoat to forsake the Communists. That leaves only two still in Red China, and Adams believes that one of them is about to leave. Said Adams, after arriving in San Francisco with his Chinese wife and their two children: "I think that they were as happy...