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...Stockholm a "Mr. Miller" gave him $200 and orders to report on Finnish morale. Burdett was visiting Finnish army positions when Finland capitulated three weeks later. When he went back to Stockholm, he met his contact, Miller. "Well," Miller asked, "how did the Finns take the end of the war?" Burdett said that they "were prepared to go on fighting." "Well, Mr. Burdett," said Miller, handing him $400, "thank you very much. That's everything. Here is your money to go back...
Footless Frenzy. On the stand last week, Burdett still sounded puzzled: "I was surprised it was all over." Actually, his spy career continued for two more years of footless frenzy and melodramatic bungling. As Burdett told it, he chased around wartime Europe waiting for orders that seldom came and contacts that he often missed...
...testified. In Ankara he reported to "Madame," a Soviet embassy official whom he met at a ball. "I got to know her very well," he testified, but he could not remember her name. When he finally broke off with Madame and the party in March 1942, Burdett related, "she acted like a child who has just been deprived of something she enjoyed...
...Burdett blamed the Russians for instigating the murder shortly afterward of his first wife, Lea Schiavi, an anti-Fascist Italian journalist, while visiting the Soviet-occupied Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Kurdish gunmen stopped her car, singled her out and shot her. "She knew too much," said Burdett...
...Harder Decision. Burdett, who had wanted to be a foreign correspondent, was hired full-time by CBS in 1941 while still a Commie, but said nothing about his Communist or spy career until CBS sent all staff members a loyalty questionnaire in 1951. He filled in the truth, with an explanatory letter. CBS accepted his explanation, and Burdett told his story to the FBI. "It was not," he said, "a hard decision to make." This year he came to a harder decision: to quit CBS and tell his story publicly. He had, it seemed, lived too long with the secret...