BARON• 35to Gorsky, was followed in October 1940 by a 17-page report pre-
pared by Barkovsky on the British estimates of achieving critical
mass and an account of the difficulties experienced in separating U-
235 by gas diffusion. Barkovsky’s sources in England included
moor, as yet unidentified, anderic,Sir Eric Rideal.
In 1946 Barkovsky returned to Moscow. Three years later, he was
posted to Washington, D.C., but within a month had been reassigned
to the New Yorkrezidentura. He was withdrawn in 1950 following
the arrest of Klaus Fuchs, but was appointedrezidentin New York in- In 1963 Barkovsky was promoted to deputy chief of the
KGB’s Science and Technology Directorate, and in 1970 retired to
the Andropov Institute, where he lectured and wrote the KGB’s offi-
cial history. He retired in 1984 and died in July 2003.
BARNARD ROAD.The location ofMI5’s principal garage until
1968, when Vladimir A. Loginov, a member of the KGBrezident-
ura, was arrested while taking notes of the index numbers as the
Watcher Servicevehicles came in and out. MI5 officers had spotted
Loginov and tipped off the police, who had sent a patrol car to arrest
the him and his colleague, Yuri Dushkin, another official accredited
to theSoviet Trade Delegation. According to Loginov, there was
quite a scuffle, in which the formerKGBboxing champion had
floored two of the policemen, but they had taken their revenge when
he had been confronted at Battersea Police Station. Loginov and
Dushkin were both declared persona non grata.
BARNES.The location, on Barnes High Street, of a Marconi Wireless
factory that was used by theSecret Intelligence Service(SIS) during
the 1920s as a receiving control for transmissions from overseas sta-
tions. The site remained active until 1938, when the radio facilities
were moved byRichard Gambier-Parry’sSection VIIItoFunny
Neuk, with SIS retaining a workshop for the manufacture of agents’
transmitters.
BARON. GRUcode name for an unidentified spy active in England
between March and August 1941, as disclosed in 10venonade-
crypts. One decrypt, dated April 1941, referred toEnigmamaterial,
suggesting that the source either had access to raw decrypts, and