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TRAITORS WN EXIL! Ny (Continued from page 21) not read the alphabet: I had diffi- culty with street names and the stops on the Metro. Kim was always there to act as guide. In spite of the difficukies I have described, we were highly privileged, enjoying all the many facilities for foreigners, while living completely apart from the small foreign community of diplo- mats and Western pressmen ip Moscow. Most of this group, whom I never met, lived in six or- seven so-called ‘ diplomatic blocks” dispersed throughout the city, with the usual militiaman standing guard outside each entrance. A Soviet organisation called the UPDK supplies the necessary chauffeurs, maids and translators, a method by which the authorities keep an eye on foreigners. It is a smail inbred community, its mem- bers well known to one another, but always eager to meet a new face. We lived a long way from this nclave, under a different sort of control, but we, too, enjoyed per- aps the most valuable of all Iprivileges; a foreign account at UM, usually available ‘only for With the help once ore of our Russian friends and y American passport, we were Able to open an account at this vast mporium, Jarger than . Harrods, just across Red Square from the: yssians guessed that I was not turely happy. Kim, of course, arne first on their list of priorities. became an object of concern to the IKGB, the secret police. As my first Russian winter drew to a close J took stock of what was in store for me. Several months The Maclean family at home, in early days. I still had a feeling of being more a visitor than a resident. Kim, as well as the other expatriates aad the Russians themselves, still con- sidered me an American national. There had been no question of my assuming Soviet citizenship as Kin had done. It was against this background that I debated two important prob- lems. I had promised my daughter that I would visit her in America the coming summer. My other problem was that my passport would expire in October, and I did not know what my chances were of getting a new one at the American Embassy in Moscow. What was I to do? The test , All the familar props of my previous life had been knocked from under me. I was adrift. In this mood of anxious uncertainty, I was eager to explore the limits of He adopted a position of neutrality, insisting that the decision was mine alone. He hinted that his doubts , had more to do witb the problems I might encounter in the US, than with opposition from tbe Russians, This detachment of his was unnerving: it was as if he dis- claimed responsibility for me, as if the action | contemplated was ao embarrassment to him, which he could best handle by being aloof. The Russians had so far said nothing against my plans, but in early June Kim had a long confer- ence with Sergei, ‘The upshot was, Kim said, that they strongly advised me to postpone my trip because I might fiad myself in difficulties. Finally Kim told them I was deter- mined to go, and said: ‘If you don't let her leave, she will go straight to the American Embassy ; I know her well enough. She is going to leave whether you like it or not.’ Sergei replied, somewhat sardonically: ‘In Russia we have Portrayal as) a homose anheny, Purdy and Douglas ‘ erland’s book, * Burgess and lean," would not allow it house. I found his comn boring and quite irrelevant. When the Russians realised I was determined to go, pre} tions for my departure bega eamest. Sergei busied '‘mself visas and tickets, bu re cate problem was what -cefit give me to prepare me for almost inevitable interrogatior the FBI. After. long discuss between Kim and his Rus friends, they decided that the course of all was not to.im any prohibitions on me? I say what I liked, good or bad there was one exception: * The thing we really don’t want k is my address, my phone nv and my Russian name.’ Kir to me. ‘If you give them aw will just complicate life. It mean having to move.’ ~ '.Cables in coc Kim and his friends did nc me exactly what thei- “-ars but they obviously a \tex I would get into trout—it immigration officials or the F both. Kim gave me a she Paper on which be had typed specimen cables. Apparent! mocuous, they were code describe what might happen t ‘ARRIVED SAFELY LOVE’ meant that I encoun on arrival no difficulty of any “ARRIVED SMOOTHLY LOVE" indicated difficulties the FBI; ‘LANDED SAI ALL LOVE" referred to pa: difficulties; while “GC FLIGHT ALL LOVE' mean I was wrestling with both the and the passport officials. | to send Kim one of the cab! soon as I arrived. Once more Twas ta hose