Evening star., 1952-07-02

of Soviet RusSia's military intelli-
gence. Dated late in 1945. it was,
full Of congratulations and the
Director had added: II wish you'll
further success in your honorable
work" It informed Col. Zabotin
he had been awarded the Order of
the Red Star and the Order of
the Red Banner, Moscow's gifts
to men who do exceptional Or
ganization work.
Set Up Vast Spy Ring.
Col. Zabotin had indeed done
an exceptional job. The organi-
zation set up and directed by him,
under cover of diplomatic status
in nation which even then was
fighting on Russia's side in the
war. revealed the pattern of vast
international spy ring which may
yet be regarded as the most sue
cessful espionage operation in 4
history.
The Canadian operation was
not isolated. It was closely linked
with operations in the United
States, in Britain, and even in
Sweden" where its activities are
still coming to light.
It's discovery-when the Soviet
Embassy code clerk. Igor Gou-
Zenko, detected in Ottawa
showed that Stains secret army
abroad was directed from a build
ing at Znamensky 10 in Moscow,
headquarters of the Soviet Army's /
general intelligence. The 1916
Canadian disclosures provide the
thread which can be followed to
the operations of Atom Scientist |
Klaus Fuchs in Britain, to the ring
operating in the United States and
even to the one operating in I
Sweden. !
What Gouzenko disclosed sent
10 persons to prison. Among them
was DR.. Alan Num- May, British
atom scientist captured in Lon
don in 1916 and tried there for
his activities in the Canadian
ring. He drew 10 years.
Zarubin Comes to q. S.
The activities Of DR.. May and
the others were organized in the
special sections Of the Soviet EN-
bassy Mission, but the royal COM
MISSIONS investigators said AM
bassador Geori Zarubin was not
directly involved. But in 1946,
when Canada put the heat on the
Soviet spies, Mr.. Zarubin was
withdrawn and assigned to Lon
don. Now, as he is leaving Lon
don to become Stains ambassa-
dor in Washington, a new spy
story has broken. involving the
contacts OF young Foreign Of
flee radio operator with an at
tache of the London Soviet EN-
bassy.
It was not until four years after
the Canadian ring was broken
that British and American au-
thorities uncovered the activities
of DR.. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs.
who has been called the deadliest
spy in history. Fuchs, cog in
the vast international Soviet spy
machine. supplies a link between
the Canadian ring and those in
the United States and Sweden.
Fuchs was a naturalized BritonI
who had been a member of the
Communist party in his native
Germany before he left there in
1882. Britain in 1910 sent him
to Canada for safekeeping as an
enemy alien. He was released in
1912, returned to London, and got
his British citizenship. But au-
thorities believe he had become
a Soviet agent in 1889, instructed
to work his way up in the British
atomic energy program.
Fuchs Gets u. S. Data.
Fuchs spent 80 fruitful months
in the United States. as a trusted
member of Britain's official A
bomb mission, picking up the most
secret of information at Los Ala
mos, N. Mex, and Oak Ridge,
Tenn.
On New York's East Side, in |
Boston and at other places in the
United States, Fuchs made contact |
with the Soviet agents. to turn
over information he had received.
It was channeled back through
Britain and through the Swedish
ring of spy -couriers to Moscow.
One of the errand boys in the
United States was Harry Gold. born
Golodnitsky of Russian parentage.
He was chemical researcher from
PHILADELPHIA and had been in the |