Volume 6, Number 8 · May 12, 1966

Master Spy

By Neal Ascherson
The Case of Richard Sorge
by F.W. Deakin, by G.R. Storry

Harper & Row, 373 pp., $6.00

'Normal espionage involves the search for weak spots in the structure of a nation. But my purpose was to keep the peace between Japan and the Soviet Union. And therefore I do not accept that my activities were directed against the national interests of Japan.'



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