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<text id=89TT2499>
<title>
Sep. 25, 1989: World Notes:Espionage
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
ESPIONAGE
The Perfect Spy Story
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<p> By acclamation, the late Kim Philby holds the title Spy of
the Century, and the tale of his flight to the Soviet Union in
1963 is still being retold in books and movies. Three of his
fellow spies in England -- Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and
Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been
suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about
his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts.
After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet
intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell
buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been the KGB's controller for
the Philby network, and asked the fifth-man question. "Yes,
there was," replied Modin, then declined to provide any clue to
the man's identity.
</p>
<p> Cornwell is the half-brother of spy novelist John Le Carre
(real name: David Cornwell), and perhaps has a special interest
in the genre. Though Cornwell's story was front-paged in his
London paper, the Independent, British intelligence experts
feigned boredom and suggested that Soviet spooks were simply
trying to stir up a bit of mischief.
</p>
<p> The Brits' blase attitude was perhaps understandable. The
revelation came after the screening of a KGB film that went to
absurd lengths to present its intelligence agents as humane,
sensitive blokes with a fondness for cooking and poetry.
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