...worked for the intelligence branch of the Foreign Office (MI-6) and then was sent to the Middle East College for Arabic Studies, Lebanon (1960). After his arrest in April 1961, he admitted being a double agent, having given every important document that had come into his possession since 1953 to his Soviet contact and having betrayed many British agents (at least 42 by his captors’ account,...
history of Russia
TITLE: Russia: The revolution of 1905–06
SECTION: The revolution of 1905–06
...in 1905–07. The police felt able to combat it only by infiltrating their agents into the revolutionary parties and particularly into the terrorist detachments of these parties. This use of double agents (or agents provocateurs, as they were often known) did much to demoralize both the revolutionaries and the police and to undermine the reputation of both with the public at large. The...
British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period.