Michael Straight

摘要

To The end of his life, Michael Straight found it hard to admit that he had ever been a spy. Yes, as an employee in the State Department in 1938, he had passed reports to the Russians. But these had been his own analyses, containing nothing classified. Yes, he had sat in a parked car with Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" of the Cambridge spy ring, while Blunt had torn a drawing in half and had informed him that the other half would be returned to him by his contact with the Kremlin. But Mr Straight thought this a bit of far-fetched drama. His eventual handler, "Michael Green" seemed to him a jolly man, courteous and fond of his food. It seemed undeserved that he was probably killed on Stalin's orders.