HOW THE SEEDS OF SUSPICION WERE SOWN

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,fit- t`~e end of arl extraordTiaa :wee of `allegations, about-Britain s~
security ,ser ice, ? Mrs Thatcher=ofricially cleared the former head of
AIS, Roger,Hollis,.of working far,,theKGB::. Bur two,main, ques
tions-remain `vho leaked~the:suggesti)on in the first place? And what
ia)c behind;the accusations that the ;top level of N115 had nevertheless
. been penetrated.~by; tliloscoW R :Answers to both earl now..be found._:
IP _., PRS:.tTIDA CF3'E=R'r r6ePen rose
genuinely- intends' to`="trace , .;a --
the': source `of.. last- week's. i'_ Calin'Simpson:,
security!- leaks; rshe ~-must -:. `
venrttre?'back iato:one--of'the -` 717 C3 S1TTfOrY~r2:?Trian
mos[x' bizarre periods- oE`r
modern* British..,;politics Nnrh-'-suspicion -and,. often,',
:the qtBarold }`Yilsan -gavern~i ~-
nents.between 1964-aad;1976. 'open r,edi to - nfir = events-
; hav e seerved to confirrrrmany
,::Itwas: herer:n".aw:atinos-
phere?` ?or-~:;suspiasnre+?.and
intrigue Nurnber' ?'-1Q-{
Downing ? Street- that= doubts-
about the reliabilit"r- of.- MIS
were. first Yoiced:_bg-Wilson.
tiiniself,. and by .his.,politicaL
.secretary -Lady galkender taro
~Yjthid "~ tiveeks z=o 7hisj
resignation, a sa_Primer.Minis=;
ter ,in&- larch, _1976;; Wilson-+
sought.: means.-oE'= making ;
._publi~a those anxieties'-cad-~
in :-r?a 't. series. ,of: r.;obliquei
approaches- her began>sug-tt
gesting_ - to--.various - news--
papers that there :was some- ;
thing-,rotten- ia. the-.state;.of-
Britain's security. `'-services =
which should be. investigated.
I:e...put._out . feelers to the
editors of The Guardian and.
ny
u
, w
:
once
The-: Observer;,but;-iW_sot held thaf'.'
elusive- a manner-that neither - o Roby was revealed
appeared: to. understand that as'aiKGB~agent:
he was. offering to:-help is
07She .-disclosed in :titarch,
pursuingtaa enquiry. " , 1977? that a former. British
He-.then- =approadled; they ambassador in Moscow. had
BBC~and-.began an., extra- been compromised.;; by.:rthe
ptdioary. series of., interviews KGB: "He ;vas-. not:_a defec.
witlxa'two..;reporters,.. 'Barrier tor.; brit -he was?`absolutely
Penrose=and Roger_Courtiour..: erisnated:in a KGB plot," she
.Br.taLkuig; t, them,,.and con -said. had ,:beer; in ,bed
firming,what'?Iie'.had=said to':?many_tirnes with,someone?he
the, BBC ...Director-General, ;,.thought '%-as- the
maid, .but
Sit Charles' Cvrran;=Wilson .
who .iwasn;t. --;.Earlier _. this
as dismantling the hallowed -,year,~yr:the Sunday:-,'Tunes
cv ventioti ; that:.` a Primer named.that?ambassador as Sir
micuster never discusses -with 3l Geoffrey Flarrison 41
outsiders. the innermost
. - ,
secrets of the state
Irr the io rse4of jhgse,tall s
first ~VYiIsOn, r".tben~--at-.great
l;e n gt h::and.-detaij- .Lady
-P 1kettder;. made, a. sgCies;of=~
devastating .allegations-.about'
.securityaratters.'When some'
ofshese:fiistJsurfaced , in
j ubfi4:V-.theya.were'?:greeted.'
Lady;.=Falkende -: told'-Pen-."
arid.Couctiaur. in March ,-
.197 ,.that there: was-a'faction
witNn:- MIS "?which- -was. con,--
,viucad that?ahe: former head 3
of treat :service was, wog: -9
ink fore the..KGB. "Harold
.told `I'ye? heard.; ever} :
.thing nowt': ;? I.'vee: just begn. ,
told tharthehead.of MI5 try_-
have: defected'to.-' the;.Rus--
crags,'" she said Last:.~~yceeek-
ihe-.-Hollis' -affair "broke-~tnto--.
Pre .: ---y - ,
-tlLe
0 She ;talked' in- Juhr 1977,
abour?,t the "fourth. man" in
them P$ilby_ af-tair, and .m en-::
toned "the keeper- of . the, t
Queen' ,pictur=es." .~In-.1979
Antho
Bl
nt
ho
-
that, maybe .they` found that
particular manriunaccepta'le:.
to them, and they got him out -
by smearing 'him.':
THE FALKENDER -. tapes
need.to_be examined against
this background of mutual
suspicion,' and 'r h e re-are--
strong reasons for-believing
that. Wilson, was.ri-ht to
concerned.
...It was -true,: for- instance,
- that senior. civil : servants
were-., spreading: -damaging
rumours about- the-: prime
minister - and an - alleged
Communist cell "atNurrber
10:-At' a luncheon in..:iamp-
shice in..197 5,. the.,. Oxford
historian` Martin- Gilbert,
o racial ..biographer: to_. Sir-:
Winston-Churchill, took,nores
as -a retired?'senior- tiure: in
:the-.,` Ministry-- of 'Defence'
discussed, whether:.:-Lady',
Falkender"really had-" secur-
?
,.ity, clearance" -(she drd)'. Also.
present was Chapman: Pincher
and:;a.:man_:~vith, supposed-.
MI5, links-. Gilbert, who.. was
deeply concerned mat ; the.
conversation, passed his notes
omit to' Wilson:
And at -a Londodinner
party -..some months-,.later,'.
officials with MIS-connections
openly.discussed -the-`-`Fact'.'
,that .Wilson and.-. :Lady--
-FaIkender - - had - ? communist.--
oinks. Again Wilson -learned
yof the discussion..'.
!i Wilson's basic ?concerh~ was
at British Intelligence-or
.a section of" it=had,-' been::
,quoted by.. reliable witnesses
as being;..the. actual -'source,
j?umours. ? ;His" first.:
:for such
action.-was, to calL.inahe late
Sir,. Mlaurice ? Oldfiel thenc:
head,yPl..nllI6,~nn
Before he
weiat;,on Fillcray:
to.:- the .Scillies, in,.%ugust,;.
197)Sir Wilson..Iear;ned ;from
Cho iVllq,chieE;that,a-groug..of
, security service" officials-' was':
rvehemently,:anti-Labour'.and.
antailGlson:,,;, :r,c. - ,s
1. r3a6rtl afterwards, accord- .
inge io , VVison,= the-: head,;of ,
MI5, Sir Mi`caal? Hanley, can-
-firmed, that within his service
was a-disafcected faction:-with--
extreme,., right trap.. ,views...
i Wilson rand Lair Falkender
iposed.;the :ques'iion: if:-he_
could not trust. a section of
MIS, how- could h ask them
'to investigate. impa rially the
-rumours which wee being
made about himself\and - his-
entourage at:Number`10?-
a-No-- longer ;-fully.- usting-
the rinformation =- he was
getting- from - the -- security-
,services, Wilson.. made an
unprecedented-- move ? fcc, a
big Eat-`spider-.:.;.' +;-
r,:t
0 ln,july, 1977?; she told. the
:storv::abour plansrfora-mili-
;tary coup discussed in: .1966
by Lord . ilouritbatten and-
others z.Harold'was told dur
;in, _ the~tweeti ;after his re
:signation. ; announcement sin
{~I a r -c ir,. 19761;: she- said.:
Sol ly_`(Zuckertri'an).: v.olun--
;teered,the whole background
rdi,thq cup." Onpage:2.T:ie
Stisiclav ;&lnes; diseloses. b'av
fare, tbos~- coup .drscussions
d ,
'the "Hollisy
i, clear that
at:ai t` t Vies-itjf origiiisuto
the come sarong-.'Penrose
and ourtiour ,reported; the
suspicions =about; a former
heaj of-1V115-.in/their boot.:
iTh Pencotirt File; AIthough-
`'th v had established' that the
sutpecfed chief, was Hollis--
and - had -talked- to - Hollis's
y.dow -they.decided that The
.evidence :. was .. not. stron-
enough to justify- using the.,
1namer' 'And it is. significant
that., Wilson -himself said at
the-'time: that -.Hollis .'.might-:
h a-v e- -b e e rt-deliberately. ;
smeared by a?=hostile faction-:
.within. MIS: `?`:?He' has - got
doubts;"-said Lady Palkender:
"He,:;wasn't - sure .-whether
-that'---particulars individual.:
might have-.been -moderate--
and friendly :and--reliable,
and -`the-others' had _ wanted
hin: marked:.-Harold thought,:,
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British prime. minister. and ofncials; but -he-.has ?also,.
titular head of the British -formed a close _associatiorr'
secret service:-he; decidedtto with Lady Falkender_'--3a -his- t
approach the CIA ' and "ask'- . book, Inside Sroi-yr published
them to make checks on.- his - in i978,-he='made. clear that
i~~,talf. On-February-10, 1976; both_slte and Wilson had, con-
Wilson asked his, publishers firmed much of-the-material,
Lord Weidenfeld (who. re- .and in. '197---he---actually
c^ived a " neerage'i-H Wilson's"' teamed. up- with' her to work
resignation?-honoursi..toei.visio? on?a
him at,tne Commons? Jr--- ' The book-fo lie-called-The
Once they were?talone,:Wil= Infiltrators --':. was, ironically,
son asked hits- if% he-would.- about. the4iaftltratiorr- of- the
take=a-confidential letter-to; a= Labour'. movement. by outside
mutual-- rfr-ien& -?, Senator. ? agents. A-cbntract _with'Lord-
Hubert :Humphrey,- -. whose Longfdrd's firm-Srdgwiclc and`"
memoirs] AiVeidenfeld::-m gas-- Jackson. ?was..drawn: -upy and
publisbisrg..Thw letter Wilson... -regular '- meetings'; between
banded] hittt_ ciintained.+~ihe Pincher and?Lady, Falkendet'
.names oE_men _whose?act ri-j continued-,.. until October laeC .4
ties seemed particularlyisus year.. - _ N 1
piciouvs-to?-Wilson -and--Lady! = The :project :went.`alawlK
Falkendet_ Wilson wantedli
ae ho~reve%;: and in. 'Deceatlie'''1
former-American.- vice.ptesi ,Pincher approache? .Sid
"gsv ck
denr'Sodask-George ' Bdsh, and:.`Jacksotir;,another-i
then - recently -installed as idea:, a about espionage -i
GIA.cbier`to. investigateyt-he ? wh' would,reveal- Sir. Roger
ten-.For one:thing, he asked, H6I1is, former.. head of LN1I5 as
did -they:, work; fort' CTA,?
The sequel.to- Weidenfel_ds a"KGB" agent th
e synopsis hire
confidential missiow-to-Wish? , self checked-the synopsis wi
inv&ton,'deliberately organijed ; Whitehall sources and agreed.
so that _]3titi'sh intelligence to publish the :book -i-:r ..:a
would. not Ieaur- about air, ! Sidgwicl, 'and Jackson . 1 :.1
was that Busfi=istade:a-spe al offered =Pincher the: -Iare st-.~
visit'r 'I oiidori on lvfare..;;Z~914advance they have ever paid
1975; t&see tiVils~i9:""" '-' - a.`substantial-five-figure ,
sum Am., spokesman-. ? _(a---figure of
.1Vilser was side-trackedpb
?hiviction, ~thatSouth f70,000 sheen mentioned):
et-i
Afriean agents -'were i. -.some--y - Planrforn-u ,' and publication
~? were drawn=up, and a target j
how.ingolvedtin?the:spreading.. dam-of April set to coincide
-'of disiototmation...He. later.: with-secialisation?in the Daily I
believed that the' same agents. Mail
::`:;r
were behind) the, Jeremy ; Two seeks- ago, -howeder;,,i
Thorpe, affair;-and ir-wes,,tts?} ? Pincher'... learned hat The
obsession with `this' 'theory.; Sunday-Times .was pursuing':
that unde mined:much of- his-*
credibility] and.-blurred. 'the t the. plans. same were:story,=and hurried
-m made to- bring"
original--s curity allegations. ?: forward 'publication:. A., TV
.Wilson's penchant; for cloak ' commercial was made, letters
dagge did not helpr..He - went.out;_.to : booksellers;.to
and
;
tipped. -:,.a, ? Penrose.. and? expect: a -.surprise item and,
Courriotir ` I'II:'giv rou ahr; over ~' last rweekend- some
leads. _ Eve. tually I'll get a i 20,000books.were..bound, w.vith_:
Royal. Commission:e into this'; "the'bindery"'.working =night.
whole security matter. I seed
myself as''-the-.big fat.:spider -For- }-farold' Wilson the re=,
on-the -corner. of the_room. suiting' furore:-must-seem a
Sometimes -I speakwh:en-I'm mixed blessing.-On, the' one
asleep..t~.Your.; * should ..-bntlhO' hand: -Mrs Thatcher; has .pro
listen: r -, ~? -;---.-;..::-- mised an, inquiry into security:
-which: while fall
'Jr Iwas hard.to separaite:,the ing :short-of.-the Royal Cam-'
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SO?'?WHY: H AVEY:th! :,1.U5 s
.allegations. only. now, resur-!
faced,' -Part .of the-answer--h 'must-.'be': aware. that ': this
. must.::lie ':irr the association?, could. _ well-' lead.-. back ito--
betweeri'h Wilson, LaDowning. treer. in 1976..' Falkender and. the;-journalist? ?- When pressed on this point.
Chapman ' Pincher,.-..' hose ' last week . on.? '-television,.
allegations;-- about `-:Hollis . Wilson. said:::" If_ : they are
dominated. the. headlines-last- going-'- to .'- use -undercover
weelN methods.:to :find out,.I. would
Pincher's security.-. Atacts, -be -verymuch . against that
as Phillip Knightleyr=reports It it-. simply-means-that .9i '.
a step forward- ;;
But'on -the' other.. liand..-she:
has. also'-ordered:an. invests
gation into-.the sources .for
Pindier's~ material.- Wilson
they are finding out whetier
he [Pincherl.. correctly re-
corded what people said and
correctly analysed what they
have said, I think that is per-
fectly- natural and normal."
'Mrs 'Thatcher may not
agree. -In July r977, she asked
the - then Prime. Minister
James Callaghan to question-
Wilson on whether he had,in
fact..: given . interviews on
security matters' to ' " t-tvo-:
journalists. -'It was, said Mrs!
Thatcher-, -"a-very grave mat-:
ter "- and- perhaps one that
the-Attorney GeneraL.should
investigate. '
As for, Lady Falkender, she
.-said. at.th_'.ti]ne. that she was
quite- prepared- for an inves-I
rogation,--and>iE`_.sher?.is....-
prgached now she will. have ai
great-deal= to. say.: >rVeall
knew _it -was coming," she'
.:-said,-'then_"_So.did Harold_'
An&she was fully aware that.
she..might,' be accused "of
''breaking -the, Official Secrets
Act:."Ti you look at it Indic-!
said,." none of: this
should havebzen-told to- any-
on .No:matrer how you argue
roucid that, it saike loyalty! tq
an employer'.-. . Erut. this.is,sn
-important.to.our national life
'that r must say it.
Fxtra. reporting by Roger
Courtiour. +. }
below, include ? former ? l.Ila
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TH.E -MAIN `.fact tci~"emerge by Phillip Kr:ightley :.. fell. under .-susp'lrinlk_ . .How-.;
from last-- week's furore justifted'was this' -".=s= -'
about-. KGB'-, spies:- is-- that. ....:
Britain's " .'security,.. _ervice,.-. rather. than' betrayal; and an ONE OF-THE: MAJOR plan. s,j
?i15, has been riven by the the secrete- world, :where of _Pincher's case. against,
same -tortuous conspiracy ..positi' a . Qf: :She -Igor Gouzenko; a cypher clerk.
-Pincher's catalogue of-allega -. doubt in the office of--, the military's
tions agaiast-Sir Roger- -Hol Opposed-to this vie v was attache in the Soviet Embassy,.:
l:s some_' with -.apparent, a small-:group of''highly-moti Ottawa, defected. in'.Septem~i
weight> some -wrong,,'-some
vated officers (described yes beg,. 1945;. bringing.witis bim
capable of innocent;-, inter terday,by another ex-director: details of Soviet agents in. the i
pretion - _ has ,unwittingly Sir Dick White, as"the young -Vest, including-one known-by the confirmed-.that,.-for -more.. ,Turks").`= They?~`wanted 'to zenko.dename- of Etli:'..Gou.-
enkoknew of Elli as"some
-than 20-years,-two factions'-purge -MIS of "communists
in-?Ivih?-.have-struggled-bit: fellow-travellers,:and-anyone one close: toadministration.
terly for control. with dodgy%,_ pals .'"..They ap-, In his book Pincher ident'
At issue has been two proved ' of . J. Edgar- Hoover's : fies ." Ellt " :. as = Hollis .and ;
basically.diff erent approaches order: all FBI officers should makes specific;'-allegations
to securiry-s: work.:=?=At. -'its- submit to regular Ire-detector about-- him :.i-=-`.?It ".had?-been
simp!esr-these can= be' des= 'tests.to'provetheir cori~inuing Hollis who :half been -serrt out;
cribed as'-the. liberaI and the, loyalty r to Ottawa to. deal -.with =they
Gestapo- approaclr- :.T_ .;; When -HJ olhs-.-resisted this =_i11IS aspects :of the' Gouzenko'
Hollis believed- An ' ' attitude,.: saying'that he did- rei'elations:so-'it='could Have the -liberal approach: a man was not want. to- run a service been a case of..Elli being in
-considered loyal -until ?proven- dominated- by.-a' -" gang of. vestigated ..on -the spot -in
otherwise; - if - .an. operation --Gestapo ofl-rcers,'2tlien-he,-too,,' Canada. bv:'~Elli himself:- The-
went wrong, the- service records.show-that Hollis had';
should first consider the a Pt'`li`p-Kn'xi'rtey=is-~urhor.ot reported - ::ahe.' minimum
Pn the- Spy-Who-. Betrayed. a of :information from
posibilitq of_ human error. Generation. amount Gouzenko, who later' com-
plained that no proper notice..
had been-taken-of-his Elli dis-
closure and' that =he '-.had.
obviously made a big mistake-
,-in reporting MIS penetration;
to M15 itself.', (page: 33).
-There-are-two things wrong
with this version: The. first: is
that Eli 'was'actually. identi- ;
fied.not as Hollis, but asKa;h-.
teen Wilisher, an English girl-
wlio worked-in the confided
tial registry .of the 'British-"
High Commission in Ottawa.
She was-arrested on February`
15, 1546; pleaded'-guilty -to
1 passing-seders to- the Rus-
signs; and- was -sentenced4to;
:-three. years. in jail.'- -
Montgomery Hyde in his--
book, The Atorn Bomb'Spies,
not only:-recounts. this"-but '
publishes:- a photograph 'of
EIIi:-JI .is possible than the -
Russians ' had two igents - at -
the time -of Gouzenko,, both:.
codenamed ?Ellic -but -this
seems-unlikely.)-.:.: .-,
Text;-; if"-4IS ?-took---.'no -
,,proper notice of, l;ouzenko's_
''-information;- 'Then the -fault
was nor' that of-.Hollis:,Nor--
mari Robertson, the Canadian:..
permanent . , secretary. -for
;'foreign'.. affairs, .name.,: to-
London after ..the Gouzenko
defection...' :and' personally.
.called - on -the director- gen- -
crals of MIS and the Secret
Intelligence - Service nd-
gat'e them a report on
Gouzenku'a re,,elatiuns. -. Su
Hollis- 'c as: in no-- positiorrz
-either--'to_wirhhold .Gouz-
enko's information from 1~M1IS
or - to, nullify ,any. action ; on"
it.. . ... ....?r,
The rest-of 'Pincher's case"
against Hollis is-a bewilder-.a
inz mixture of circumstantial
evidence and.. accusations. of
omission, .,poor- , judgment..'
`dereliction ---of ? duty,- Land-
strange behaviour.' - -
Co", si'd:ralile significance is
.placed' on _tite efforts -Hollis-'a
made to get .into iv1I5 in the--
first place: " Hollis could. offer -
no satisfactory- answer as to---
-why he.had been so doggedly--
determined to. join MIS, agree-.
ing'that it.was the prime tar--
-et -for any-Briton recruited
to Soviet'Intell igence. Weakly- =
:lie -insisted that he' just .
thought 'that -the, work would'-*.
be interesting." :p.83).
The-innuendo is sometimes --
subtle: "The-only work he
.could find (iii 19331 was as,a --
clerk-typist:--Nevertheless - he
was still able to afford to play
a'lot of golf," (p. 41-)--Other
titres it is less so: " H'e said'
that he' could not remember
.the-address of the-first house
in-which he had.lived after..
his=-first marriage. Inquiries
-had::shownthat-. a'--former
Oxford -friend, - Archie Lyle,
who had -also' been:-a- com-
panion_of Burgess, had-lived
only [four doors ,down..-: .
Hollis--denied that lie,- ever :
knew. that Lyle had been: such -
a- close -neighbour, ,and..this-
r was interpreted as.. a.device
to avoid-:admitting -an',con-
,
nectioirwitlrbis former friend
,because anyone who had ever
been -involved-. with Eut-gess
could- be suspect." (p,-83)"'
.-His -habits-were--peculiar:
'_".,(He remained) late, iri -his
office in Leconfield House; in
Curzon - Street,- often until
.-about??8 pm.--.---...Though--he
_,bad. -a chauffeured- car. ?at' his
disposal, he- would regularly
"walk to his house in- Campden
`Hill Square;---across' Hyde
Park, - a convenient.-'rendez-
vous if, by that time, he was
"in 'contacE " with a -control-
:1er. (F36)t '' 4
'His-friends had.unsatisfac-
-'tory backgrounds:- "-He- was
,on terms of close friendship
with Claud Cockburn, a- suf--
ficiently dedicated common-
ist to become 'diplomatic and
foreign-correspondent for-the
Daily Worker before '--and ?i
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lie was also a close friend of
the late Maurice- Richardson,
the journaliscand writer who
or a ti use ioined. the Corn-
munist Party . Another
left-wing intiuence at Oxford
was- the e-xtraerdinary Tom
DriberR ".(p. ?Sj"'"* ~ ,..
Even the tribute- from Hollis's,
former boss, Sir. Dick. White-
The hotter the vlimate' of
national-security, -the-cooler he )
became -is. made:::to'.?tsouncdj/
general of-MIS beset, as Hovis_..
was.- with . an: unprecedented site-.
cession- oft security. 'disasters.
But;-a.s:Philb_v and Blunt'shdived;
it was:?aio an-essential attribute 4
for a-.app. `(P 44)i
WHO- ARB---Piricher:c:-sources
for all this? Pincher himself has-:1
refused.So say,,exceptto note
rhat the_v.-'ali-tome:ftnm:.rvtthiri
ecurit!r-servi2ei 'Bur', i'
the
possible to deduee`-wltesome',of
then are, and wbai 6theirs were,Lj
One'soutce- is cerrainiy:James
Jesus-Angleton, head?'of-coUnten.i
intelligence for .the I. ., ogle' 4
ton, bristling ;with- .suspicoir-1
afterhaving been-.duped'-by-Jim,'-.
Philby, has.beeri?;convinted??for"'
years--that .high-level- ino3es.'re?.
e
li
h
. .,- -~i
genc
rntel
Brit s
Angleton's efforts to rootektheiv
out caused such- damage to'.ihe;'
CIA -thhat in 1974a new director;,;
William -Colby, : asked him-.3o',
resigm Colby. said thattortuous':
conspiracy- theories' about' the
long arm of a powerful and wily'
I:G;3 "at -work : over.--decades "
were;:.`doing the :'agency, - -?nore-
harrri=Zhan good.
--But .Angieton `-basremained
available, to spell our -his suspi-"f
cionsrto anyone who' comes M'ith='
the right_introduction:The prob-=:1
lem ibour-taking.his 3nformstton'"
seriously- is-that: his "suspicions;;
about .moles'. in 'Zthe--West ,have
been fuelled by two Soviet de-
fectors, Anatoly- Golitsin, and -t
Michael Goleniewski.- Golitsin
has been?tf&e'-Source of, literally, l
hundreds ef-allegation4rZ Golan--?
iewski insssas thatrhis. rtsl: name'.-'
is Alexi Nit:holsetich -Rna-anoff,
the son of Tsar: Nicholas;'an&l
that he:?is 'the'rightful heir -ta
the throne of Imperial Russia.
Another'of-Pincher'ssources?is f
the man' who -was director 'of
counter-espionage- in MIS' in
1963. Pincher quotes this officer's
memorandum to Hollis on: Feb-
ruary 4 of that year-about the
Profumo affair-pressing Hollis-
to - bring the matter : to light:--
Pincher =then: adds: '".That: was:
clearly a plea -from- a- man--who
had both the interests of his-Ser-,
vice and - the.. Government * at 'l
heart .. ? Having read.it.and dis-
cussed it-with his. deputy, whom
be always overbore, Hollis. de-
cided to ignore.it:'_Cp.75)._
And a third - is - probably- the
MIS officer '-who .interrogated -
Blunt. Hollis and the officer fell
out over the-manner in which
the interrogation should be
conduced and what .should he--
done about Blunt's leads to high- -
level suspects. =The- disagtaes,j
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- men became healed and Hollis I
_ftrstJsuspended the officer, and
thc4 dismissed him. Pincher
tvr es;. *-'This. officer assumed
thin- than-Hollis had realised
that he--suspected 'him -and
therefore wanted rid of him.
j~'hat is still-his-view." (p SO). - ?
19'And, finally, there 5s Anthony-'
J.,lorion,,-tile ex-MI5 -man who
.appeared : recently on- BBC : TV .
and= who. has said publicly-ihat"
he stormed *out'rf MIS over the
;Blunt affair:--"-
'HOW' NEW-7is?. the:-: Pincher
material?..
'-Some ' of its comes from ? his
-.own,?wriangsi'going' back to
- 1977,,.,although,?Pincher . seems
to . have '.vacillated' about its
$-a uthenticity':=.--In Wthe: Daily
;Express-. of.: Augusrtil; :,19J7_ hq,.
wrote,, "The Observer , -pub-
lished.. an ,attack on MI5 sug-
gestin='1that- the'fotirth roan ?in':
rhe7-Philby'?affair ..had--beerr?a.
high=ranking,,M.15 officer::-- ; My-,t
r-3nduiries - with-- officers involved:tI
iny - the - Philby :affair~,convineed.l
me .that"this' -story was --unrrue
athe-heads of ,MIS-and
--MI6 !.feared: ..that they?were
beiisg -subjected to , a smear i
campaign?of ,the kind.'which-ha;:;
damaged 'rhe "CIA to :the -great'f
?"delighc of :'Russia's 'ICGB:'; ' '
-'Burbythe'time`lie'had come'a
to' i;~rite liis book; ;Inside' Story,-
published=:'in`; -hirdback:;'.sit
October';-1978,-Pincher--had -seen
Wilsori`atid Lady'Fa1kender-and-1
changed 't?hir--mind about the .j
`mole iii-NUS_-and"the."KGBsmear-
'-.:campaign.r.' 'At-least-one -sus-
pect:-spy was detected in Ml'S
itself during Wilson's premier:
ship.-. He,. too, was quietly-Te-.
-moved by being induced to, re.;
sign." (p: 94 r
'r A yea . later ` Piric&r'.had up=
dated.his boolt or,tlie paperback:;
.'edition-and-now put a-name-to:
'the=---MIS `stn peEarly -'in:
-Wilson'sfirst, premiership there
was strong- suspicion -about the
loyalty of -the-director general
of MI5, the late Sir Roger-:Hollis.
04Evidence.shad--accrued front
Irori.-Curtai n ' --d efectors.asuggest.?
ing tltat -Hollis,__who-;;by that.
time. was". hi -retirement;""nrighr
"himself'hiie-been- a''defector-
fn=place; biit"a-long 'and, search=
search=ing inquiry::failed : to-, produce
-proof. Serious-;doubts neverthe-
` less remained and.` stones are
still being turned over'"-(p.92).
By; last. week .enough, stones-
had-, apparently- been 'turnied 'for-
Pincher to feel that a story he
was convinced :four : years ago:
-was. untrue.;was indeed correct'
and that he could now put his
foot firmly on-Hollis as a KGB
mole. He wrote: " Hollis's be-
haviour in the Blunt case, as in
the' Prnfumo affair, :makes sense
only in the context-'that he was-
a. spy himself ,(p.80)"
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