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February he had them invited round to Meadows' house. "As we entered," says New York Dealer Klaus Perls, "we saw a huge fake Vlaminck, and on the opposite side was a fake Picasso." Nor did the count end there. By the end of the tour, A.D.A.A. members politely informed Meadows that of the 58 paintings he had purchased over the past four years, he was the proud possessor of 44 fakes, including 15 Dufys, nine Derains, seven Modiglianis, five Vlamincks and two Bonnards...
...Treaty, it was assigned to the political limbo of everlasting neutrality between East and West. Russia has used the treaty to object to Austria's moves to join Western Europe's Common Market, on which it depends for most of its trade. Last week Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus decided on some liberalization of his own. Whether or not the Soviet Union likes it, he said, Austria will move to join the Common Market as an associate member. Like many other small nations that trade with Western Europe, it does not want to be left out in the economic...
...type bomb. Greenglass pleaded guilty before testifying, got a 15-year sentence after the trial, and is now free. > Harry Gold, the courier, is also now free. He testified that in June of 1945, his Soviet-consul spymaster, Anatoli Yakovlev, sent him to pick up information from Turncoat Physicist Klaus Fuchs in Santa Fe and from Greenglass in Albuquerque, where he signed a registration card in his own name at the Hotel Hilton. At the time of the Rosenberg trial, Gold had already pleaded guilty and was serving a 30-year sentence for conspiring with Fuchs...
...Compared with 25 years for Russian Agent Gordon Lonsdale, only 14 for Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs...
Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...