'A GROTESQUE SMEAR' SAY TOP SPY-MASTERS

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• Document Release Date: January 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: January 20, 1980
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LONDON SUNDAY TIMES
20 January 1980
by. Barrie Penrose,; David Leitch and-.Phillip hnightlev
Liddell was not mentioned by -:,`Although ?-Skardon is' best RedOrchzstra: "It is not en-
AGENTS of Britain' IS em secret
eral kno:.n that this Russian
services, SIS and ivIIS; emerged, name, but the clues pointed to known; as the 'man who broke l
from the shadows last. week to i him. He had a distinguished Fuchs;-. hie also `dealt- with g,,,-ring had a that Dricisia this section,
defend- - Guy- - Lidded,-:former ? career in MIS during whi:h he William Joyce (Lord Haw=Haw), t,-caught one of them after
deputy-director of MIS,. who hasi rose--to be -deputy -director and the. Krogers; Gordon -Lonsdale., the~war.'- He was a Jewish re-
been accused of being.a?Soviet. was widely-tipped to -become =and_ .a ? string ; of: other ~ spies, fugee and he confessed., that he
mole. Liddell is the most recent the next director-general. Then some.-;hose harries have not-yet - had been recruited at the Albert
andmost high-rankinz secret - Liddell. was prematurely retired been- revealed In his -interview. ; h Hall.!! bn named several promin-
service-: officer to ;come.. under- in.. 1953 . after . the - -Burgess- vitti .the Sunday Times he went . eat people. who -had worked for
suspicion in the, wake--of-the Maclean scandal. and given the ? on ' to'recalP' highlights - of -his. thee_Red Orchestra in Britain,
token post of security. adviser
Anthony Blunt-affair: ', ` 21 years= as MI6's: top interro' som of them quite prominent.
The agents are Si[ bick.Gold- ..to-.the Atomic: Energy Author razor ~'t? =tr: '~= It.tvasdecided not to prosecute
ity.. He. died .in 1953:. true Interrogation techniques, _l I' krow their. names,. but
-head White, who "vasuniquely Str Dick Whiter- who wrote; >
of SIS (Secret ' Intelli- lty instructor had a remark- I'm nor"going to tell you.
genre Service) and earlier head Liddell's obituary in The of-Time, 'able.. method. `jie tivouldTask -a :--.Today? kardon -follows-'the
of.MIS-' (the: security-service); vas . director-general 'duestiori: and ignore the answer. quiet a - Sf a.comfortable pen-
1953-56, head of SIS, .1956-69,;
aI5 in erro S;crrwho the crack r , .Later he_:would. ask the same sinner-Jiving by the-sea. He
:and co-ordinator of?intelligen_e I
1II5 soy o lau who broke the questiony as if heih- never I spends -his- days- playin,- indoor
atom-,spy Klaus Fuchs. Both and. ..s197t 7y_: in?:.;the", Cabinet heard'the first,. wet. , would i bowls, his "evenings.pamring or
He said last week:
spoke to The :Sunday. Times on Office- 197U-73.
the record to, denounce:accusa- The three Liddell ~irothers all do-this. over and over, irritating playing bridge. Incensed by the
tions against Liddell as 'grotes won-tne.. :-Military Cross in the Fthe --suspect i or example, hethad asked Nunn; dsac c cations -against about Liddell his
que preposterous;'::and to de- First World War. That was the-1
be May several times what..he?had, memotn while-\ Sir.John.Balfour,
fend their services against what sort: of- family - Guy" Liddell. and
they see. as sinister attacks. longed to' very patriotic:: .handed'-to the _ Russiaas, ;runn Lidde}L's. cousin, has organised
This-move by White and Skar- Y. knew him. very we'l He each'-time he -ignored '` a.rotest by Liddell's famil and
don is unprecedented.-Normally was very:industrious; a devoted ;`lay's denials that he had hen-'' a pote.`;A I, roe of them,'
them,
British-secret agents; .even re- servant of-this country. Through- ded- orer anything The for the advised:;:-. by_;. -Lord _ justice~
tired ones, do not `make public out the: Second:-World-War: hey tenth- time' he--said; -'\ow, \Ir'
~.. ou've. handed over a, :$tephenson~ hie Lori tin, about'
e sample- of er, er .._."Vunn.~lay -their:. feelinrs to The rimes.
statements. The officers; that two hardly-l vie`-- s d ssa otzqu
'fact. h such eminent officers were pre- im-a?Soviet spy patience and"said
pared to speak out:?.for'.Liddell charge: Accusin him".may -have lost.:: his. P=
--:and. had top-level.clearance possib ly been 'a-way -of deflect- 35 ni n mya instructorr 'srnun-1
to do-so - shows how= seriously in. accusations against others.
the -- intelligence- :establishment Tt i ::unfor-ivable . that :' Guy ced. `I: dori t see.why that very
views the attacks:: :.;- :,:? . Liddell's name-should .be black_I werr euour
`r,Suspicioi al-out allies dung Ruswar. ;?Lidd 'ell - has ened in -this way.'_'". - -s=., agreed.. then went on
been revived by Andrew Boyle William> Skardon,' 'who--had Nunn ;Vfay' whose book The Climate of Trea- been ? a ..detective- in the:-CID.' to.tell. him everything
son--hinted that art`.historian oined:S in 1940 and'-worked, Anthony. Blunt: "I went to
Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy with -Liddell until Liddell - re- see :'him= at the Courtauld.? I
tiredi:.Skardon: said last week:, wanted" to' learn if he could tell
-ivlrs Thatcher-unmasked
before
- "I: knew::Guy' Liddell eittremely me anything about Burgess and
Blunt-.in- a statemen~.l to :the
well:=,He'was, a. wonderful man 1M,Iaclean..I learnt only one thing
Commons. Boyle -first- heard and any' suggestion-that hewas from him..~Vhile I was question
about Blunt's work for=Russia a: traitor=is preposterous:'I'm -at; ing him I noticed a Degas pastel
a
claims one with' Sir Dick White; and' drawtnd: I do a bit of painting
from urgess_ y B eesi.. Boyle novK':friend of
Guy. Bur~ess others from the service wha-will; myself and I'd copied this parti-
stbeforeReesdiedhetold stand---by`;Gtiy.;Liddell's'record I cular-Degas pastel.-I told Blunt
-him that Liddell was part the a"and.his memory.. The-aibel laws l I =thought- I'd got the colours
?Blftit-Burgess homosexual clique I:should? cover, the .distinguished just about right but the onl r
?andwas also a-Russian agent dead as-well as the living.:-` difference was that my drawing
d But .accusations- thet?: Lid- "'The only-. explanation I can was on cardboard. 'So. was
-o, back muchfurter..`Vhen find'-Jotse-suspicions-'about{ Degas's,''said Blunt."
-Harold' Wilson:,f;was: prime Guy.-Liddell' is that there was; 45 Surveillance "I an the siir-
Krogers
minister,.?one?m.casecucity ~s cote~ie;;of5,people in which" veillance team for he
advisers-told. or 'that .. arforrrer ,Burgess'- Bhmt--?and Liude111 and Lonsdale whom we arrested
deputy- di f
Russians.. had moved:a.:'They;"'_had-.common in 1961. It was a wonderful
defected -to o the- ?:Rf Russians.:Th artistic and?>cultural 'interests:' time, full of anxieties. We had
'adviser said that o,thouid' haves Their names-,became associated '50. or ,60 cars, our own radio
been -damaging to?the national, ttivith='teach,^ other sand"`: some station,' aircraft all of them
interest 'to have. brought: them ;people; have- made Guy- Liddell MIIS.,:.youu .need them. - For a
man-to- trial,. so- .lie:;) had eart4 guilty by association.' - S r proper -surveillance, job for two,
b people, you need at least a dozen
prematurely retired`~> `
experts-.for. each 1Z4-hour period.
We'watched the Krogers from a
house opposite-'That was a great
thing. I. never had 'any problems l
in.-MIS., with the British people.I
They;would. cooperate in every
'ivay.:;.?Give-youu? aibedroom in,
if necessary,. for l
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