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- <text id=89TT2499>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: World Notes:Espionage
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- ESPIONAGE
- The Perfect Spy Story
- </hdr><body>
- <p> By acclamation, the late Kim Philby holds the title Spy of
- the Century, and the tale of his flight to the Soviet Union in
- 1963 is still being retold in books and movies. Three of his
- fellow spies in England -- Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and
- Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been
- suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about
- his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts.
- After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet
- intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell
- buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been the KGB's controller for
- the Philby network, and asked the fifth-man question. "Yes,
- there was," replied Modin, then declined to provide any clue to
- the man's identity.
- </p>
- <p> Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre
- (real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest
- in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his
- London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts
- feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply
- trying to stir up a bit of mischief.
- </p>
- <p> The Brits' blase attitude was perhaps understandable. The
- revelation came after the screening of a KGB film that went to
- absurd lengths to present its intelligence agents as humane,
- sensitive blokes with a fondness for cooking and poetry.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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