Apologia by the former editor of The New Republic who was recruited and handled for the Soviets by Anthony Blunt at Cambridge in the mid–1930s. Later, Straight admitted to being handled by a “Michael Green”, a Soviet illegal who brought greetings from the “friends” at Cambridge. Straight’s connections to Blunt, Guy Burgess, and the Soviets did not surface until the Kennedy years. When offered a job requiring security screening, he volunteered these connections to the FBI which subsequently asked him to talk to the British security service, MI5.