Chapter 14 Chapter Twelve

In 1961, people on the streets of London were still saying that their lives had "never been better"; while in Washington, a young president who had just taken office was creating a mythical civilization and a brilliant Cameron Lotter City and rushing around.But in the underground world of clandestine work, the portents of a decade of turmoil are already clearly visible.Throughout the 1950s, the intelligence services of the United Kingdom and the United States were engaged in the Cold War with a clear and single-minded focus.The Cold War was not a very subtle war, nor did it have all kinds of complexities.But by the early 1960s, a large number of defectors had escaped from the heart of Soviet intelligence to the West, and each of them had some story about the infiltration of Western security agencies.Yet their stories are often contradictory and unbelievable.As a result, suspicion and speculation hung over the intelligence system, and the British and American intelligence agencies gradually became paralyzed.

In December 1961 the first defector came to the West.I had been returning to England from Washington for some weeks.I was in my office when Arthur came in suddenly.He had a cigarette in one hand and a copy of The Times in the other.He folded the newspaper neatly and showed it to me. "Sounds interesting..." He pointed to a message about the Soviet major Klimov and said to me.Major Klimov took his wife and children to the US embassy in Helsinki and asked for asylum. Soon we heard rumors that Klimov turned out to be a KGB major and was now confessing.In March 1962, the offices of Division D were filled with cheerfulness.Arthur smoked more, and his childlike face flushed with excitement.He paced back and forth in the corridor by himself.I guess he must have got news about Klimov.

One day I asked him, "Is it about the defectors?" He beckoned me to his office, closed the door, and told me what had happened."Klimov"'s real name was Anatoly Golitsin, he said.He was a high-ranking KGB officer who had worked for the First General Directorate, responsible for espionage against Britain and the United States.He later worked in the Moscow Intelligence Department, and then in the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki.In fact, Golitsin had been included in the CIA's watch list as early as when he was serving abroad, but he was not recognized after changing his name until he defected to the US embassy in Helsinki.

After the initial interrogation, the CIA handed MI5 a list of "ten episodes."Each episode of the list details Golitsin's revelations about British security agents, and the list was originally kept by Arthur. Patrick Stewart, the acting chief of the third section (research section) of Department D, made a preliminary analysis of the ten episodes of materials, and drafted a list of suspects based on the principle of "checking the number of seats".Later, each episode of material was distributed to some officials of Section 1 (Investigation Section) of Division D for them to conduct investigations.As for me, I will provide them with various technical consultations at any time according to the needs of the investigation.

Of the ten episodes of material, three immediately caught our attention.Golitsin said that in the 1930s the Soviet Union had recruited a group of well-known "Group of Five" spies in Britain.Not only did they know each other, but they also knew other spies, he said.But Golitsin didn't know the true identity and name of the "Group of Five". He only knew that one of them was code-named "Stanley", and he was involved in the recent KGB operations in the Middle East.This thread fits perfectly with Kim Philby, who is now working for the Observer newspaper in Beirut.The other two of the five that Golitsin was referring to were apparently Burgess and McClain.The fourth person mentioned by Golitsin may be Sir Anthony Blunt, connoisseur of paintings from the Queen's collection.Sir Brent, a former MI5 officer during the war, had been under suspicion for a time after Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951.But we know nothing about the fifth person Golitsin speaks of.Since Golitsin mentioned the "Gang of Five" in three episodes, the Philby case and the Brent case were brought up again for re-examination.

Among the ten episodes, the latest and most accurate clues are in the third and eighth episodes, and these clues are all about Admiralty spies, such as Holden.This shows that the Soviets attached great importance to collecting detailed information on British and NATO submarine and anti-submarine capabilities.According to the third episode, the Soviets recruited a spy among the naval attachés of the British embassy in Moscow, which was personally supervised by General Gribanov, the head of the Second Directorate General responsible for domestic intelligence operations.A Russian employee named Mikhailsky in the British embassy participated in this activity. The spy copied the confidential documents he had seen and handed them to Mikhailsky.Golitsin also said that in 1956 the spy was ordered back to London to work in Naval Intelligence, so he was put under the command of the KGB Foreign Operations Branch.

According to Golitsin, the second naval spy in episode eight is a more senior character.Golitsin said he had read three numbered NATO documents, two of which were top secret, which he had come across while working in the NATO section of the KGB intelligence service.The NATO Section of the Intelligence Service is responsible for collating policy documents on NATO issues and providing consultation and reference to the Politburo.Once, when Golitsin was preparing a document on NATO's naval strategy, he saw three documents sent from London.The material that Golitsin saw was generally redacted, in other words, the source of the original material had been deleted beforehand, but this time because of the urgency of the report he had to write, his superiors agreed to show him a copy of the original.The CIA verified Golitsin's story.It turned out that the three documents mentioned by Golitsin were detailed plans to expand the Polaris submarine base in the Firth of Clyde and plans to redeploy NATO's navy in the Mediterranean.The CIA guys mixed the three intelligences with other NATO documents and showed them to Golitsin.Golitsin immediately and accurately recognized the three documents and explained that the document he had seen on the Firth of Clyde was distributed in four sets of numbers and figures, while the one the Americans showed him There are six sets of numbers and numbers.The American checked the distribution list and found that there was indeed a copy of the kind he said, but we could not find it.Stewart analyzed the distribution of the three documents and found that the only suspected leaker was a senior naval lieutenant colonel who was now retired.Later, the case was handed over to the First Section of Division D for handling.

In the months following Golitsin's arrival, three more people defected from the heart of Soviet intelligence.There is no connection between the actions of the three men.Obviously they are three independent spies.The first two indicated to the FBI that they were willing to stay put and provide intelligence to the FBI.One of these two people is an officer of the KGB, and the other is an officer of the GRU.Their public identity is the staff of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations.Their code names are "Fedora" and "Top Hat".A third defected from Geneva in June 1962.His name was Yuri Nosenko, and he was a senior official of the KGB. He approached the CIA and expressed his willingness to provide intelligence to the bureau.

Before long, Nosenko provided much valuable intelligence to the search for British naval spies.He claimed that Gribanov had recruited the spy who had given the KGB all of NATO's secrets from a "Lord of the Navy" by threatening to expose his homosexuality .Due to the close connection between the NATO documents and the spies recruited by Gribanov, MI5 merged the third and eighth episodes.John Vassar, a clerk in Lord Carrington's office, is a serious suspect.Stewart believed early on that Vassar might be a member of the "Gang of Five" spies mentioned in the third episode, and listed him as a fourth suspect in a case that was later run by investigator Yoni Symonds, Symonds disagreed with Stewart's judgment.He believed that Vassar was deeply Catholic and moral, and that he was less likely to be a spy, so he put his name at the bottom of the list of suspects.But after getting Nosenko's clues, everyone paid full attention to Vassar, and it was soon confirmed that Vassar was a homosexual living in a luxurious apartment in Dorphin Square, and his life was far beyond his income.MI5 was then confronted with a problem typical of counterespionage work.Unlike other crimes, espionage has no trace, and unless the spy himself confesses or is caught on the spot, it is difficult to find evidence.The investigator asked me if there was any technical means by which Vassar had indeed stolen documents from the Admiralty.Frank Morgan and I tried a method where we smeared a small amount of radioactive material on classified documents and put a Geiger counter at the entrance to a suspect's crime scene so that if the documents were moved, we could spot the criminal action.We tested this approach with Vassar without success.There are too many entrances to the Admiralty, and we can't tell which one Vassar will go to, and the Geiger counter often displays items such as luminous watches together, which is very imprecise.In the end, the leader canceled the plan on the grounds that radioactive materials would be very harmful to the human body.

So I went to find other ways.According to the results of the CIA investigation, Golitsin's memory is almost like a camera.I decided to run another test to see if he remembered details from the photographic reproductions of NATO documents.In this way, we can analyze whether the spy gave the original copy to the other party, and then asked the other party to return the original to him.I took twenty-five photographs of the first page of the NATO Firth of Clyde base, each corresponding to a method the Soviets had recommended to their spies in the past or used in the embassy themselves, and then I passed The CIA sent these photos to Golitsin.At a glance, he found a picture taken by the "Punaktina" camera. I used two pendant corner lights to light this picture, one on each side.That brought us to the bottom line, so we broke into Vassar's apartment while he was at work.In a drawer at the bottom of the wardrobe we found a "Punaktina" camera and a "Minox" camera, which were specially used for copying documents.A manhunt was ordered, and Vassar was arrested that very night and his apartment was thoroughly searched.We found a secret drawer at the bottom of a table in the corner of the suite containing a number of photographed 35mm film rolls which, when developed, turned out to be one hundred and seventy-six photographs of classified documents.Vassar quickly confessed to his crimes, admitting that he had been hooked while having sex in Moscow in 1955.He was sentenced to eighteen years in prison.

While we were gathering intelligence on these new defectors in London and Washington, I had a personal crisis.The Lonsdale case brought renewed attention to the whole problem of technical funding in MI5 and MI6.Although Morgan and I devised a project at the Atomic Weapons Research Group in 1958 that made breakthrough progress, little else improved.We have tried and failed to allocate some of the funds from the defense budget to satisfy the intelligence community, especially the electronic technology department.We are rapidly entering a new era of intelligence gathering using satellites and computers.Since the Launch Engineering Committee has been divided into "small groups" and "anti-small groups", they need more large-scale science and technology to support and develop their operations.Now everyone finally understands the significance of the comprehensive reform of the old system that I have advocated for many years. I put forward this initiative as early as 1958.MI5 and MI6 each need their own research teams, budgets and scientific and technical personnel.Shortly after the Lonsdale case was uncovered, I went again to Sir William Cook, on behalf of the two services, and asked him to examine our claims carefully.We spent several days together visiting the several defense institutes that currently serve us.Cook later drafted a detailed report, one of the most important documents in the history of postwar British intelligence. Central to Cook's report was the rapid expansion of the Hanthrop Communications Center into a research facility for the MI5 and MI6 services, with an emphasis on advanced "clique" and "counter-clique" needs electronic technology.During the war, this communication center was the headquarters of the Radio Security Bureau, and later became the communication center for MI6 to maintain contact with overseas spy networks.Cook suggested that the Hanthrop Center should recruit new staff from the Royal Naval Science Service.For me, this is the most important reform.Ever since I joined MI5, I have been lobbying for the removal of the artificial divide between the technical units of the intelligence services and the scientific units of other civilian agencies.This barrier is very damaging; it deprives the intelligence services of leading scientists, and personally, I would have to give up almost two decades of a navy pension to accept MI5 in order to work for MI5 appointment.I stressed this to Cook more than once when he was writing his report, and he thought my argument was valid.As a result of Cook's report, fifty scientists were transferred to the Hansrop Communications Center without compromising their pensions, and could later be transferred back to their original units if they wished.I was the first scientist transferred to the intelligence service, so I was not eligible for this new regulation.But at the time I wasn't worried about these things.I'm sure MI5 will give me some compensation someday, they promised me.But unfortunately, I trusted them too easily. Another of Cook's suggestions was that MI5 and MI6 should establish a joint headquarters.They work separately, but a chief scientist should plan and supervise the new research programs and their development of both sides in a unified way.This is a bold suggestion.I have to admit that this position has a great attraction for me.Seriously though, I've actually worked in this position.Many technological modernizations since 1955 have basically been initiated by me, and I have also spent a lot of time and energy trying to get more budget and materials for the two bureaus.But I didn't get what I wanted.Victor Rothschild strongly recommended me, but Dick White told him that his transfer from MI5 to MI6 had caused dissatisfaction in MI6, and this dissatisfaction had not yet subsided, and it was impossible to persuade me. MI6's senior technical staff were led by people sent from MI5.Eventually the Colemore Council met and resolved the issue.When the meeting discussed Cook's conclusions, Hector Willis, Director of the Royal Navy's Science Bureau, immediately expressed his willingness to resign from his original post in the Navy to serve as the chairman of the newly established Science Council.Hollis and White accepted Willis' resignation with great gratitude, knowing that it would soon have repercussions in the bureaucracy.I was appointed vice president.Meanwhile MI6 colleague John Hawkes was appointed vice-president.Hawkes was responsible for the development of the Rox cipher machine as MI6's representative at Hanthrop Communications Centre. Willis and I know each other very well.He is a rural man from the north, amiable, short in stature, with white hair and black eyebrows.He has always favored black and white dotted gray woolen suits and stiff-collared shirts, which look refined and refined.During the Great War, I worked under him on cable engineering and anti-submarine warfare.He's better at math than I am and has a first-rate technical mind.Now we are all engineers, but we have different views on the management of the new council.I think the role of engineers and scientists in intelligence work is to come up with ideas and do experiments that may or may not work out.What I have achieved since 1955 has been through experimentation and inspiration.It is my hope that the new council will serve as a powerhouse to address the critical scientific problems that the Launch Engineering Board has handed us, and put them into action to expand their results.Willis, on the other hand, wants to merge intelligence research with the Department of Defense.He wanted to turn the Council into a subsidiary body, an offshoot of a vast and lifeless arms contracting industry that made products to the specifications of users.I tried to explain to Willis that intelligence work, unlike arms contracting, was not a peacetime job.Intelligence is a constant battle, and its targets are fickle.So it's no use making plans decades in advance. By the time you start working on the plan, the plan may have leaked out. That's not the same thing as the Admiralty planning to put a ship into service.Take Operation Berlin Tunnel, for example. We spent tens of millions of dollars on this magnificent project, only to find out that the Soviets knew about our plan from the beginning. It was leaked by the Secretary of the Planning Committee, George Blake.I agree with Willis that we should develop a number of simple devices such as microphones, amplifiers, etc. These items have some vitality, and I am opposed to the development of sophisticated instruments and equipment, which are usually initiated, designed and developed by various committees. The developed ones may have been outdated by the time they were developed, or they had been known to the Soviets long ago, and perhaps due to changes in the situation, they lost their own use value. Willis never understood what I was striving for.I thought he lacked imagination, and he certainly didn't have my boundless enthusiasm for the future of scientific intelligence.He asked me to settle down, change my current lifestyle, and put on a white coat to supervise the implementation of the contract.I was forced to leave Leconfield House and move to the Science Council headquarters at Buckingham Gate.1961 was a year full of excitement and success.Time flies, and the second half of 1962 arrived in the blink of an eye. This was the most unpleasant period in my career.For the seven years I enjoyed more or less freedom in MI5, I was always active and constantly involved in the various operations of the time.After this transfer, it was as if I had been transferred from the trenches to a British National Army resting place. Once I moved to the new office, I found that I could not use my skills there.It was clear to me that once I left Leconfield House, I would end my life in obscurity, in the claustrophobic absence of life.I have decided to leave the council and, if my superiors agree, to work in another unit under MI5.If my superiors don't agree, I'll go to GCHQ. I have some knowledge of GCHQ's work before. At this time, Arthur took good care of me.He knew that I was not free at Buckingham Gate, and he found various pretexts for me to join the ongoing work on the Golitsin case.In the spring of 1962, Arthur made a lengthy visit to Washington.During his visit, he made extensive reports to the United States on the Golitsin matter.Arthur returned with another 153 volumes of material worthy of further investigation.Some materials don't matter.For example, Golitsin revealed that a famous music star was recruited as a spy by the Soviets because he could get close to the officials of the upper class in Britain.Others, though true, have been satisfactorily explained.For example, Golitsin confessed that a baron was photographed by the KGB when he had homosexual sex in the back of a taxi, and that the KGB used it to blackmail him.We found the baron and asked him what was going on.He admitted that it happened, but did not give in to the KGB blackmail.We are happy with that.While much of Golitsin's account is tempting, it is not specific.Sometimes his confessions appear to be genuine, but upon closer analysis they become blurred.Another problem was Golitsin's penchant for selling bits and pieces of intelligence to others, and he made a living out of this work.Therefore, those who deal with him don't know when they can get some valuable information from him, and they don't know how much information the defector still has to provide. Golitsin has provided us with a very bizarre, very elusive piece of information.So I was called to help.This is the Sokolov Grant case.The difficulty of this case is typical in many respects.For example, the kind of situation we often encounter when dealing with the information he confessed.Golitsin told us that there was a Soviet spy near an airfield in Suffolk, which was a base for the latest missiles.He was sure it was a back-up spy, used for plotting in times of international crisis.We have contacted the RAF and believe that the airfield mentioned by Golitsin is probably Strathshall near Bury St Edmunds.Then we looked at the electoral rolls near Strezshall, trying to find some useful information.A few days later we discovered a Soviet name, Sokolov Grant.We checked with the files in the MI5 archives and found that there was a file on him.Grant was a Soviet refugee who entered the UK five years ago. He married a British girl and rented a piece of land near the airport to farm for a living. The case was referred to Charles Elwell for investigation.Elwell checked Grant's correspondence, tapped his phone, and questioned the local police, but found nothing.I was ordered to search his house to see if I could find technical evidence to convict him.I drove straight to Bury St Edmunds with John Stoller while he and his wife were on holiday up north.Stoller is short, gray-haired, and smiling.He was originally a staff member of the "Anti-Small Group" in the M Department of the Communications Headquarters. He once made arrangements for the flight operations of the "Raftman" and participated in the analysis of the "Raftman" signal.Sokolov Grant lived in a handsome Queen Anne red-brick farmhouse.The house has been in disrepair for many years.From the garden behind the house, the terminal runway of the airport could be seen, and the runway cut through the rolling wheat fields, so idyllic that it was hard to arouse doubts about everything here.But it's this beautiful idyllic landscape that always reminds me of spies: they always use this beautiful English landscape as a cover. Stoller was tasked with searching the farmhouse for a hidden radio system, while I broke the latch and entered Grant's house.Housing is horribly dirty.Corridors and passages are littered with waste.The books in the downstairs room were piled up in disorder.At first I thought they were moving, but then I realized that was not the case when I saw how dusty everything was.There are two desks side by side in the study in the back room.On the left is a large desk with a flip top, which is full of messy things, and even the sliding lid cannot be closed.To the right is a small desk with a cabinet.I opened the cabinet door and there was nothing in it.I opened the drawer again, and it was empty inside, not even a little dust.The desk must have been vacated recently.I sat in a shiny Wenzel chair and gazed at the two desks.what the hell is it?One is full of things, and the other is empty.Are they trying to move things from one desk to another?Or are they trying to free up a desk?If so, what is their purpose?Isn't there something suspicious about an empty desk in a room full of rubbish? I rummaged through the papers on another desk and found mostly business records for farm work.Stoller found nothing outside, either.So we left Grant's house.A good search of the place would require at least twenty men to work for a week.Later, Elwell visited Sokolov Grant himself and asked the villager some questions.Elwell was very satisfied when he returned.He said there was nothing wrong with Grant.He is very popular, and his wife is the daughter of a local squire.We speculate that Golitsin may have seen Sokolov's name on the KGB watch list, and that perhaps the Soviets intended to contact Sokolov but never actually sought him out. Soon after this the Grants left the village.Maybe the people in the village knew about our investigation, maybe Grant wanted a new life.In spite of the insignificance of the investigation of Sokolov, the incident has left an unforgettable impression on my mind: an ordinary ordinary man suddenly suspected and then suddenly dispelled, and yet his whole life completely changed by a lie on the other side of the world from someone he had never met.The cozy country world of Suffolk collides with the secret world of the Betrayer, where there is so little chance of coincidence that even an empty desk can arouse suspicion. Golitsin's intelligence on the infiltration of MI5 by spies was the most closely guarded of all his intelligence.I first learned about it from Arthur.Arthur had just returned from Washington.Golitsin said he had seen special safes at KGB headquarters where documents from British intelligence were kept.He had also seen the index of those documents kept in the safe, and was sure that the latest MI5 documents must be there as well.He also said the KGB had obtained a document from British intelligence they called a "technical document".It was a very thick document, which listed various technical equipment used by British intelligence agencies.He was not able to study the document carefully, but was called in to see if he could translate a passage of it.This document must be important because they are pressing for the translation.He said that the security measures of the Soviet embassy in London were different from those of other embassies. There were no special security officers (soviet guards). According to Golitsin's speculation, the reason for the absence of special security officers was that the Soviet Union had completely penetrated MI5.Golitsin also spoke about the Crabbe incident, saying the KGB was alerted before Crabbe struck the Ordzhonikidze. In August 1962, MI5 was in the process of assimilating information from Golitsin.At the same time, we also made an important breakthrough in our research on Philby's third episode material.At a reception at the Weitzmans Building in Israel, Victor Rothschild meets a Soviet Zionist immigrant named Flora Solomon.She told Rothschild that she was very angry that Philby had written some anti-Israel articles in the Observer.She then revealed that Philby had been a secret spy since the thirties.Victor tried his best, and finally persuaded her to go to London and tell Arthur Martin about it.The place where they met was at Victor's apartment, and I was ordered to install a microphone in the apartment.I decided to temporarily install a special device there.Victor was very nervous about this. He said to me, "I really doubt you're going to remove this particular device," and pressed me to promise to supervise the installation and disassembly myself.Victor always thought that MI5 was secretly eavesdropping on his speech, knowing his close contacts with the Israelis.His suspicious appearance caused many jokes in the office.But I gave him my word and had the post office technicians go through the telephones they had installed the afternoon before Arthur and Flora Solomon met.After the meeting, I went to the scene to watch them remove the wiretapping gasket. I monitored the meeting live from the eighth floor of the Leconfield Building.Flora Solomon is eccentric and unbelievable.She hated Philby deeply, but she refused to disclose her relationship with Philby and others to Arthur.After some patient enlightenment, she finally spoke the truth.It turned out that she had been intimate with Philby before the war, and liked him.Philby took her out to lunch once back in London when she was correspondent for The Times in Spain.During the meal, Philby told Solomon that he was doing a very dangerous job in keeping the peace - and needed help, and asked if she would help him with the task.He told Solomon that he was working for the Comintern and the Russians, and said it was a great and honorable cause, and he wished she would join them.Solomon refused to join the gang, but she told Philby that he could always go to her for help if he was desperate. Arthur stopped asking.This is the story of Solomon.We wondered if she was more violent with Philby in the thirties than she says she is, but that's less relevant to our work.Solomon was often agitated when he was talking. She said sharply, "I'm never going to testify in public. It's too dangerous. You all know Thomas has had an accident since I talked to Victor about it." She was referring to Philby's friend. Thomas Harris, an art dealer, died in a mysterious car accident in Spain not long ago. She shouted hoarsely: "I know that if I testify, this matter will definitely be leaked, so how can my family live?" Although she kept saying she was afraid of the Soviets, she had another feeling for Philby.She said she still cared about Philby.But she added later in the chat that Philby treated his lovers terribly.From her conversation I deduce that she and Philby must have been lovers in the thirties.Although Solomon did not admit it.Solomon's deliberate vengeance on Philby must have been due to the fact that Philby abandoned her years later in search of a new love. With this information from Golitsin and Solomon, Dick White of MI6 and Roger Hollis of MI5 agreed to send someone to Beirut to interrogate Philby again.In preparation for the trial, Evelyn McBarnett spent four months drafting a lengthy report.She started drafting it in August 1962 and did not finish it until the end of the year.However, at the last minute before leaving, the plan changed.According to the original plan, it was Arthur who went to Beirut to interrogate Philby. He has been in charge of the investigation of the Philby case since 1951 and is more familiar with the whole situation of the case than anyone else. Notice that Nicholas Elliott was rescheduled for interrogation.Elliott, a close friend of Philby's, had recently returned from his former MI5 station chief in Beirut.Elliott now believes Philby did commit the crime.Those of us who knew about the decision were taken aback by the superiors' opinion that letting Elliott go would better pique Philby's conscience.Autocracy was a contributing factor to this decision, but by no means the only one.We at MI5 had suspected Philby's guilt from the very beginning, and now we've finally found the evidence that's driving him to the brink.And Philby's friends in MI6, mainly Elliott, had been protesting against the idea of ​​Philby's guilt.Now the evidence is solid, but they want to hide this evidence and prevent outsiders from knowing it.The decision to choose Elliott for interrogation caused outrage.Elliott is the son of the former headmaster of Eton College, with an aristocratic temperament that is elegant in conversation and well dressed.But a decision was a decision, and in January 1963 Elliott left London for Beirut with a formal proposal to grant Philby immunity. A week later Elliott returned to London triumphantly.Philby confessed.He admitted that he had been a spy since 1934.Philby also said he wanted to return to the UK and had even written a plea.The mystery that has lingered for so long has finally been solved. With news of Philby's guilty plea, many in The Secret World are feeling a lot older.I was nearly forty-five at the time.It is one thing to doubt the truth, another to hear someone tell it, and suddenly feel that the game is not very interesting, that the great danger is over.This case is not like the arrest of Lonsdale, which is nothing more than cops and thieves, and when you find Philby—someone you might like, or drink with, or admire, beckon to your enemy Selling everything, you remember that our espionage and all our operations have come to naught, and you can't help but feel that the good times of youth have passed and the dark times have begun. A few days later, Arthur stopped me in the hallway.There was something odd about his calm demeanor.Usually he is always in a hurry, even a little nervous.At this moment, he seemed to have witnessed a car accident. "Kim (that's Philby) is gone," he whispered to me. "My God, how did he go..." A bleak smile appeared on Arthur's face, and he said, "Same as those two people in 1951..." Philby's defection demoralized senior MI5 officials.他叛逃以前，有关军情五处被渗透的说法一直对外保密，而他叛逃以后，这些说法就由内部传了出去，而且愈来愈令人恐慌。毫无疑问，菲尔比的情况同麦克莱恩在一九五一年时的情况一样，是接到了某个人的提示才叛逃的，而这个提示人就是暗藏在军情五处的属于“五人集团”的第五人。这个设想和戈利金提供的“五人集团”的证词完全吻合。这个“五人集团”是由伯吉斯、麦克莱恩、菲尔比，几乎可以肯定还有布伦特，以及这第五个间谍组成的。这个间谍在一九五一年的调查中蒙混了过来，一直未暴露，现在正在窥视着危机的发展。 温特博恩经常和我谈起这个问题。他坚信，我们的上层藏有间谍。 “我不相信我们就真的这么无能。”他常常这样说。 对他这种想法产生过很大影响的是“唱诗班”行动，甚至八年以后，温特博恩还常常激动地提起它。在那次行动中我们发现，苏联人堵住了我们探测话筒的针孔。当然使他产生怀疑的还有其它一些事件。有一次，我们在中国大使馆的电话上安装了特别装置，但苏联人马上就把它取了出来。另外，福尔伯事件也增加了他的怀疑。“党务”行动以后，军情五处继续搜寻英国共产党的关于苏联给英共秘密资助的档案。据我们判断，这些档案也许就藏在鲁宾·福尔伯的公寓里。福尔伯不久前受命当了苏联资助的出纳员。福尔伯是个杰出的英国共产党员。当时他登广告找一名有才能的人住到他公寓的底楼里，于是我们就趁机派了一名特工打进了他的公寓。当我们正在计划对他的公寓采取行动时，他就把我们的特工撵走了，而且根本没向这名特工说明叫他搬走的原因。 正当莱肯菲尔德大楼被这些忧虑纠缠不清的时候，我却在科学理事会闲荡着。我决定亲自作些自由调查。在几个月的时间里，我慢慢地从档案室借来一些档案。最初借来的是五十年代中期我参加过的话筒行动的档案：伦敦的“唱诗班”行动、加拿大的“蚯蚓”和“猪笼”行动——这三次行动都失败了，原因至今仍未查明。另外还有澳大利亚的“老鼠”行动。我对这些失败的行动进行了仔细的研究，关于它们失败的原因可以有种种复杂的猜测，但军情五处内藏有间谍并不是没有可能的。有些行动使温特博恩忙得不可开交，但最后仍归于失败。对此，也有许多解释。也许我们的手脚太笨，也许福尔伯只是胡乱猜疑我们的特工人员，但我觉得这难以令人信服。泄密是完全可能的。我又从档案室里借出五十年代我插手的双重间谍案件，一共有二十多件，都对这个问题没有什么参考价值。当然，失败的主要原因是，我们的业务水平和无线电监视设备，但蒂斯勒案件却使我们对内部是否藏有间谍产生了疑问。卢拉柯夫一莫罗试验并不能排除苏联人除了窃听我们监视队的无线电通讯以外还有一个两条腿的情报源的可能。还有朗斯代尔和最近发生的菲尔比案件，我们的行动没有一次成功，这些事件在不同程度上都证明了苏联的干扰。 任何问题无论怎样错综复杂、令人不可思议，但终归有一天会得到解答。一九六二年到一九六三年冬天，我在白金汉门花了好几个月时间对近八年的工作细节进行了反复的核对和比较，终于使整个问题明朗了。我们过去的猜测，现在找到了证据。我们内部肯定有间谍，问题是这个间谍是谁。接着我又苦干了几个星期，对档案的出借和归还日期—一进行了核对。借阅这些档案的总是这么五个人：霍利斯、米切尔、卡明、温特博恩和我自己。我知道这个间谍肯定不是我，也决不会是温特博恩，这个间谍不会是卡明，他不会干这种卑鄙的勾当，那么有嫌疑的就只剩下霍利斯和米切尔两个人了。难道会是霍利斯？这个人狂妄自大而且刚愎自用，像个独裁者，我和他彼此保持着一定的距离，那么会不会是霍利斯的副手米切尔呢？对米切尔我了解得就更少了。他总是不敢正眼看人，而且遮遮掩掩令人怀疑。再者他聪明伶俐，完全具备间谍的条件。我知道我的挑选也许是出于偏见，但在我的心目中，我倾向于米切尔是间谍这种假设。 一九六三年初，我觉察到有人在监视我的行动，这个人不是霍利斯就是米切尔。每当我进行私人调查，我总把档案锁在保险柜里，然后用铅笔做上记号，如果有人动过，我马上就会知道。一天上午，我发现办公室保险柜的档案动过了，而只有两个人才能开我的保险柜，局长和副局长，他们保存著有关所有保险柜的暗码复制件。疑团愈来愈多了，间谍已经蹑手蹑脚从门外的走廊上走过来。 奇怪的是，自从菲尔比叛逃以后，阿瑟和我疏远了。当然他公务繁忙，不过每当我问起他的工作时，他总是巧妙地避开话题。有好几个晚上，我和他在他的尤斯顿车站附近的公寓里聊天，每当我提起戈利金一案时，他都否认他正在作进一步调查。我相信我随时都有可能被解雇或者被调离，所以千方百计地寻找借口去阿瑟的办公室。我随身带着三十八件有关私人调查的档案。 我提请他注意双重间谍案中的某些细节，诸如某件不了了之的话筒案件。“你看这些档案有用吗？”我向他探问道。而阿瑟除了看看我的档案以外，什么也不说。终于有一天晚上，阿瑟问我：“彼得，你知道是谁，不是吗？” “不是罗杰就是格雷厄姆。”我说。 他告诉我他正在调查米切尔。他认为菲尔比的叛逃肯定与泄密有关。根据调查的结果，他得出结论，这个间谍不是霍利斯就是米切尔。但究竟是谁呢？他不知道，于是在菲尔比叛逃后他就去找狄克，把整个问题告诉了他，希望得到帮助。狄克原来是阿瑟的老师，在四十年代末期栽培过阿瑟，阿瑟从未忘记过狄克的恩情。狄克说需要考虑一下，要阿瑟第二天再去。第二天狄克非常明智，他告诉阿瑟，霍利斯不可能是间谍，而米切尔却有可能。他建议阿瑟向霍利斯汇报心中的怀疑。结果，霍利斯立即命令阿瑟对副局长进行调查。我们交换意见时，阿瑟的调查才刚刚开始。 “你怀疑这件事有多久了？”阿瑟问我。 “自从蒂斯勒事件以后……” 阿瑟拉开书桌的抽屉，拿出一小瓶威士忌，又取出两只咖啡杯；他给我和自己斟满了酒。 “你对罗杰说过了吗？” 我告诉他，我曾经两次对罗杰提过此事：一次是在蒂斯勒事件以后；一次是朗斯代尔案事件以后。但他都否认了，他对此感到惊奇。 “我想你已经猜出我在干什么……” “是米切尔，对吗？” 他没有答话，只是告诉我说：“据调查，有人告诉金逃跑的时间，我敢肯定只有格雷厄姆这样地位显赫的人才知道这时间，才能做……” 他说，菲尔比叛逃后，他就去看怀特，并告诉怀特他怀疑霍利斯或者米切尔是间谍。阿瑟这样的做法是无可非议的。 阿瑟叫我去找霍利斯。 “告诉他，我们已经谈过了，我建议你找他谈谈，除此之外别无它法。” 我给霍利斯的办公室拨了个电话。出乎我的意料，霍利斯居然同意马上见我。我立即乘电梯到了六楼，在他的办公室门口等候绿灯。他的秘书把我带进办公室。霍利斯正坐在凸窗下面的书桌后，处理一份档案。书桌旁放着一排削得尖尖的铅笔。我走上前去，站在离书桌几英尺的地方。他没抬头。我一言不发地等了几分钟。霍利斯的前任在自己的肖像里用两只眼睛紧紧盯住我。霍利斯的笔在档案上沙沙作响，我仍在等他。 过了半天，他终于开口了：“彼得，我能帮你干什么？” 我口吃得厉害，最后的时刻到了。 “我已和马丁谈过了，先生。” “哦？”他语调平稳，没有一点惊奇。 “我对此事很忧虑……” “我明白…” 他仍在埋头工作。 “我又分析了一下，写了一个报告，他叫我拿给你看。” “请把材料放到那边的桌子上……” 我走到房间的一边，坐在洁净的大会议桌旁。霍利斯也走了过来，他在我旁边坐下，静静地翻阅我的报告。他不时对我的分析提出一些问题。我感觉到他今天不会反对我，他甚至在期待我去找他。 霍利斯读完报告后，问我：“你知道他六个月以后就要退休了？” 我感到非常奇怪。于是便问道：“米切尔要退休？”因为据我了解，他离退休年龄还差一两岁。 霍利斯说：“这是他刚刚提出来的。现在我无法改变这一决定了。彼得，我给你六个月的时间去证实。你和马丁一起去干。威利斯由我去打招呼。” 他把报告还给我。 “我不喜欢这事。我想我不说你也知道。调查要绝对保密，明白吗？” "Yes, sir." 他又坐回到书桌旁，“你们如果要知道米切尔的背景，我会为阿瑟安排，让你们看米切尔的履历。” “谢谢，先生。” 我离开了霍利斯的办公室。他仍在埋头写着。