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joinedSection IXof theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) in 1944
from the Royal Navy to deal withItalyand Switzerland. He was later
in charge of all the Western European work. When his name was pro-
posed, Barclay was investigated byMI5because his background—
Eton, Trinity College, Oxford, and service in the Foreign Office as
a diplomat between 1937 and 1941—appeared to coincide with the
description of a Soviet spy given byWalter Krivitskyto Jane Archer
in 1940. In 1946 Barclay left SIS and became an acclaimed painter.BARDSEA ISLAND.TheSecret Intelligence Servicenaval facility
in Essex where fast motorboats were based during World War I that
deployed into the Baltic to ferry agents into Bolshevik territory.
BARKOVSKY, VLADIMIR.Born in Belgorod in 1913, Vladimir
Barkovsky began working as a locksmith and in 1935 began a four-
year course at Stankin, Moscow’s Institute of Machine Tools. He
joined theNKVDupon his graduation in 1939. Barkovsky had in-
tended to become a pilot and had undergone a military induction
course in which he had learned to parachute and ride a motorcycle.
However, he unexpectedly was ordered to report to a training unit at
Starya Ploshchad and in June 1939 embarked on an intense English
language course at Malakhovka. He was then assigned to the English
Department, which at the time consisted of just three officers and a
single typist, because ‘‘at that time intelligence had been unbeliev-
ably weakened by the repressions and, essentially speaking, had to be
completely rebuilt.’’ Barkovsky also spent ‘‘a month’s probationary
period at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.’’
By the end of the year, Barkovsky had been posted to London
under his own name, where he would remain until 1946, first as an
attache ́and later as third secretary, using the code namejerry. His
journey to Liverpool took 74 days, via Japan and Hawaii, and when
he arrived in February 1941 he found a tinyrezidentura. ‘‘There were
only three of us... but plenty of work.’’ The others wereAnatoli
Gorskyand ‘‘another greenhorn like myself who had arrived in En-
gland in March 1940. A week after my arrival in London I estab-
lished contact with my first agent,’’ and this source supplied him with
information about British interest in developing an atomic bomb. The
original leak, of theMaud Committeereport byJohn Cairncross