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to come, must have seemed wi! '!y inappropriate at that moj , coming from the wife of a snort officer in the Russian Intelligence Service. I had made a gaffe and Kim froze in a way which was quite out of character. - We returned to the flat by a roundabout route; and I was certain - that we, were followed by another car, ¢ Russians were worried that tha British or the CIA might tail us §bme. To cheer Kim up I told him I had bought two bottles Of whisky in Copenhagen. Sergei wanted to know exactly where I had bought the bottles. Could they have ENT eae WARM aS 4@ MUSSIAN spy in Britain. He had penetrated the Portland Underwater Detection Establishment, with the help of Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee, British employees ai this secret naval centre. Jn January 1961 he was arresied with his accomplices and sentenced to 25 years’ imprison- ment. But on 22 April 1964 he was exchanged for Greville Wynne. 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Simply send your name please) to Rapid Reading Pro- gramme (Dept.OB/BR12), Marple, Cheshire prembsrendezvousin "urged me to telephone her. + Russian friends sti ing to : ¢ flat to talk 10 him behind the »-efosed doors of the study. He also wrote occasional political pieces for various magazines. Once he showed me an article he had just finished. I remember him saying, ‘Can you see how different the slant is from my old OBSERVER pieces?’. . Kim was paid a basic salary of 500 roubles pmonth~abo £200— but, in addition, he recei large sums for any special work he did. The Russians also provided, in foreign exchange, some £4,000 a year for Kim's children in England. Our Tent was cheap, under 35 roubles, or £20, a month, and our only real luxury was the maid. Unlike me, Kim did not feel that a car or a dacha in the country was necessary. One of the first questions I asked Kim on my return to Russia was, , “How are the Macleans?’ The were our only close friends and had brought them and their children many Presenis. ‘Oh,’ said Kim, rather abruptly, ‘Melinda is in Leningrad seeing an old friend.” ‘ : I then said I would like to ring Donald. Kim’s face clouded. *No, please. We're not speaking to each other any more. We had a filthy row at the dacha some days ago.’ Later, when I asked Kim again about the cause of the breach be- tween them, he answered, * Donald said I was still a double agent.’ “+ About eek later Melinda re- turned from Leningrad and Kim I was eager to do so because I wanted to tell her about the gifts I had brought them. We arranged to mect for lunch at the Aragvi on Gorky Strect, one of the best restaurants in Moscow. On our way Kim and I in a moment of distraction got off at the wrong Metro station, Kim set off at the double through the snow, with me panting asthmatically after him. “Hurry up,” he cried over his shoulder, ‘ we'll be late. We musta't keep her waiting.’ But Melinda was waiting. She seemed more than usually tense and on edge, and I remembered that she had been most reluctant to come to lunch at all, It had required a good deal -of coaxing on.the telephone, with Kim at my elbow prompting me to persevere. 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