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HOSE brains W are behind the Big De-freeze wilh Soviet Russia? . The skilful talk and friendly gestures of Soviet Statesmen at Geneva, the Jong) series of conciliatory actigns that paved their way]there, sugzest that an expdrt backroom team is Riving Close advice to the Kremlin on how to eoiten the West, It is certainly not Molotoy and = Gromyko, Who-e technique has lagecd a littie behind the others. It is improbable that lesser Soviet bureaucrats have produced the master Metiod that transforms Russians we meet from sullen automatons “into beaming buddies. indeed it cannot be a Rugsian at all: for. sun’ Teegnt Sovict strokes displal an gncanuy grasp of Wester Teaqtions. Whonver jit is, he a _dmon for psychology. Hi] knows us almust too well. Bs am Eee a a ‘A ; ‘| DETECT the hand of tw 1 in Russia's new sho of friendship ... the han , of the vanished diplomats, and Maclean’ | men ' Burgess by {AN 1 BELIEVE IT OUR years @0, K when two is- credited British Foreign Olfice men decamped penind the fran Curtain, 1 strongly resisted the idea that they would play a further role in Soviet policy. Two years ago, when J heard this theory again frum a shrewd observer, T was still Feluctant to brheve tt. But 1 belleve it now, I believe that much of this extraordinary — change - of - face by Russia's leaders that amazes and delights the British and American public fs the seeret work of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Ido not suggest that Mactfan and Burgess “have iy changed Siet What Ido. sugsest tt ance Soviet peticy hanged. they suddpnaly fmmensely ust ful, was became COLVIN | | think they are acting As rompters. They hafe itiated the Russian mid ipto the m) les of the Western mind—an almost inverplanetary feat —aend taught them how to keep “pbe ball in play” with rqpidity that ts beginning t lqive the West rathe bfcathless,