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1924 in Tehran, the son of a Dutch petroleum engineer who had
worked in the Baku oil fields before the Communist revolution of
1917 and a Russian mother. He claimed to have grown up in Tehran
and Iraq and came to the United States in 1953 after his parents had
died. His Russian accent was easily explainable by the fact that he
had a Russian mother and when friends suggested they could not de-
tect a Dutch accent, he usually changed the subject of conversation.
He was an enthusiastic tennis player, a founding member of Edgem-
oor Tennis Club in Bethesda, Maryland, and his two daughters at-
tended the Holton-Arms School. Friends knew him as an ebullient,
athletic, fun-loving man who dressed well, drove expensive cars, and
supported charitable causes.
In November and December 1954, writing under his Soviet name,
Rastvorov authored a three-part series inLifemagazine in which he
discussed the political machinations at the highest levels of the
Kremlin. After publication he vanished, emerging only to testify be-
fore a Senate investigations subcommittee in 1956. He received U.S.
citizenship by a special act of Congress in 1959. After his defection,
Simons continued working for the CIA in a variety of consulting and
advisory jobs and in various CIA-front businesses. He died in Janu-
ary 2004, supposedly 79 years old, five days before the 50th anniver-
sary of his defection to the United States. He had never recovered
from a debilitating stroke he suffered in 2002, following knee re-
placement surgery. Prior to his convalescence, he had lived in a con-
dominium at the Rotunda in McLean, Virginia, for the prior 20 years.RAWLINSON, A. P.ColonelA.P.RawlinsonservedinMI1(a)in
1917, having been educated at Rugby and Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge, and joined up with the Queen’s Regiment in 1914. As a re-
servist in World War II, he was placed in charge of MI9(a),
responsible for the interrogation of enemy prisoners. He shared a
room with Gerald Templer at the War Office. After the war, Rawlin-
son became a successful playwright. He also wrote the scripts for
several BBC Radio series. He died in 1994.
REED, RONALD.Born in 1916, the son of a waiter at the Trocadero,
Ronald Reed joined the BBC as an engineering apprentice and was a
skilled practitioner of a highly unusual art—the ability to adopt the
‘‘fingerprint’’ of another wireless operator.