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department supervising espionage by theCzech Intelligence Ser-
vice(StB) in Britain. In 1964 he began a two-year tour of duty in
London, attached to the Czech embassy under diplomatic cover as
labor attache ́. In mid-1968, having returned to headquarters in
Prague, Frolik was informed that his career in the StB had come to
an end and that from August he would be unemployed. This news
prompted him to contact theCentral Intelligence Agencyin Prague,
which arranged for the exfiltration of Frolik, his wife, and his son
while they were on holiday in Bulgaria. Together they kept a rendez-
vous with a fast speedboat, which collected them off the beach and
carried them across the Black Sea to Istanbul, whence they were
flown to the United States.
During his debriefing, Frolik identified several StB assets in Lon-
don, including three Labour members of Parliament, Sir Barnet
Stross, John Stonehouse, andWill Owen. Although Stross had died
in May 1967 and Stonehouse denied any contact with the Czechs,
Owen was charged with having sold secrets from the Defence Esti-
mates Committee to Frolik’s colleagues, Colonel Jan Paclik and Rob-
ert Husak. Owen was acquitted, but later admitted his guilt. Also
arrested was Nicholas Prager, a former Royal Air Force technician
who had betrayed details of various classified radar systems. He was
sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment and deportation to his native
Czechoslovakia.
Frolik’s autobiography,The Frolik Defection, published in 1975,
was heavily sanitized by the British Security Service because several
of the StB andKGBassets identified by the author, particularly those
within the trade union movement, had been run byMI5asdouble
agents. However, while he was en poste, Frolik found some obstacles
in his attempts to approach union leaders like Ted Hill because, as he
was advised, they were ‘‘horses being run by another stable,’’ mean-
ing they were already controlled by the KGB. Today Frolik lives in
the United States.FULFORD, ROGER.President of the Oxford Union in 1927, Roger
Fulford was a lifelong supporter of the Liberal party and stood un-
successfully for Parliament three times, in 1929, 1945, and 1950. In
1933, at age 29, he joined theTimesand published his first book,
Royal Dukes. This was followed two years later by a biography,