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from canteen gossip atMoscow Center, thatGuy BurgessandDon-
ald Macleanhad been long-term Soviet spies who had been re-
cruited at university and had swamped therezidenturawith copies of
valuable documents.KLATT. Abwehrcode name for Richard Klauder, a spy whose radio
traffic exchanged between Sofia and Vienna was intercepted atBlet-
chley Parkfrom December 1941. The issue of whetherklatt’s ex-
ceptionally well-informed spy ring was an extraordinarily elaborate
Soviet deception preoccupied Britishcounterintelligenceexperts for
years. When theSecret Intelligence Servicetipped off the Soviets
to the apparent leakage of information, they took no action, leading
to the conclusion that the network had always been under Soviet con-
trol.
KLUGMANN, JAMES.Educated at Gresham’s, Holt, and Cam-
bridge, James Klugmann joined theYugoslav SectionofSpecial
Operations Executive(SOE) inCairoin 1941 after military service
in the Pioneer Corps. A lifelongCommunist Party of Great Britain
member, he was a university friend ofGuy Burgessand wrote the
party’s official history. According toAnthony Blunt, he was also
a talent spotter for theNKVD, andJohn Cairncrossasserted that
Klugmann had introduced him to his recruiter,Arnold Deutsch.
Klugmann died in September 1977, having refused to be interviewed
byMI5. Postwar scrutiny of SOE’s policy towardDraza Mihailo-
vic’s Cetniks suggested that Klugmann may have suppressed infor-
mation favorable to the Royalist leader in favor of the Communists,
led by Tito, who received massive support from the Allies.
KNIGHT, MAX.Max Knight was probablyMI5’s most unconven-
tional—and most successful—case officer. He joined the organiza-
tion in 1925, having been a naval cadet, and proceeded to recruit
long-term sources in various political groups regarded as subversive.
Perhaps his greatest coup was the insertion ofOlga Grayinto the
Communist Party of Great Britain(CPGB), and it was due to her
evidence for the prosecution that a Soviet spy ring operating at
Woolwich Arsenalwas rounded up. Her appearance as a surprise
witness led to the conviction in 1938 ofPercy Glading, a veteran