By Patrick Pesnot
Heroes to a few, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officials proceed to fascinate and enthrall us with their skills to function secretly within the shadows. With those mini-biographies of twenty brokers of varied nationalities (including individuals of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' carry the reader as shut as attainable into the area of espionage, notwithstanding a landscape of intelligence history.
Among the simplest identified of those brokers, the reader will locate Aldrich Ames, an American accused of spying for the KGB; Eli Cohen, the Israeli secret agent top recognized for his espionage paintings in Syria and Klaus Fuchs, the German-born British agent who helped the USSR to fabricate its atomic bomb in 1949.
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One of the main historians of the Communist Party, Philippe Robrieux, confirms that Moscow had asked Jacques Duclos, the real leader of the party during Thorez’ absence, not to engage the party at the start of the uprising. He also notes that at the beginning of August 1944, Duclos left an unanswered message for Charles Tillon, urging him to encourage the uprising. indd 32 07/09/2016 10:21 Boulanger: Stalin’s Villain 33 had difficulty in the southern zone due to the resistance of the main Communist Party leaders, Mauvais and Guyot, in carrying out the guidelines laid out by the FTP leaders for the national uprising.
Rémi Kauffer18 Born in Mannheim in 1903 of an Alsatian father and German mother, Lucien Wilhelm Boulanger worked as a labourer and had been a communist from 1918. He was technical secretary of the KDP (German Communist Party) and in 1929 enrolled as an officer in the Red Army at the Lenin Academy in Moscow. In October 1932 he began his clandestine life as Lucien Boulanger. As head of M-Aparat, the military wing of the German Communist Party, he was responsible for fighting the Nazi storm troopers.
Yet at university, he clearly professed his pro-communist ideas and never hid his sympathy for the Soviet Union. indd 36 07/09/2016 10:21 The Red Fox 37 actively participated in mass meetings ran by the ‘Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR’. During these meetings, transcripts were often read out concerning the sinister trials in Moscow. Fuchs’ master and director of research, the future Nobel Prize winner Sir Neville Mott, recalls that he was deeply impressed by the passion with which his brilliant student played the role of Vychinsky, the relentless prosecutor of the Moscow trials.