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people who can enter into the bourgeoisie." Deutsch gave him a new Minox subminiature camera and gave him a codename (Sohnchen). He began to instruct Philby on the rudiments of tradecraft: how to arrange a meeting; where to leave messages; how to detect if his telephone was bugged; how to spot a tail, and how to lose one. His first task was to spy on his father,
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capable, idealistic students and have them publicly distance themselves from Communism so that they could penetrate the British government and intelligence spheres. The students' former involvement in Communism would be overlooked by the British as a mere youthful mistake. This strategy produced many well-placed agents, especially the
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Deutsch told Philby that he must break-off all communist contacts. He should establish a new political image as a Nazi-sympathiser. "He must become, to all outward appearances, a conventional member of the very class he was committed to opposing." Deutsch told him. "The anti-fascist movement needs
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Deutsch's legacy from his time in the UK is to have come up with a highly successful agent recruitment strategy. Deutsch observed that the high quantity of Communist students and constant turnover due to matriculation and graduation provided an excellent recruiting ground. The idea was to select
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Back in Moscow, Deutsch was extensively debriefed, and managed to escape execution – which, at the time, was the fate of many completely loyal Communists. He was employed as an expert on forgery and handwriting, and was not allowed to go abroad again until the early 1940s.
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Deutsch's final fate is uncertain. Among theories which have been proposed by various authors, Deutsch was said to have been captured and shot by the
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Deutsch then travelled to Britain under his real name, so that his university credentials would be valid. Upon arriving in England, Deutsch studied
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and worked for OMS, its international liaison department. Over the next couple of years they travelled around the world working as couriers.
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MI5 report on intelligence gained from interviewing Krivitsky in 1940, published as an appendix to Nigel West
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Soon after leaving university he married an Austrian woman, Josefine. The couple were both recruited by the
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During his time in the United Kingdom, Deutsch was given the task of evaluating an American recruit,
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to disguise his role as a Communist agent, Deutsch was in fact lapsed in his religious beliefs.
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History states that Deutsch's eventual destination was Latin America, but then says that
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The Spy who Came in from the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage
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At the age of 24, Deutsch received with distinction his PhD in chemistry from the
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Boris Volodarsky (2014): Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov.
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A Time for Spies: Theodore Stephanovich Maly and the Era of the Great Illegals
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while en route to New York, where he was supposed to work with NKVD recruits.
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in 1934. Using the code name Otto, Deutsch was the controller for the
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authorities in Germany, but was freed from custody with the help of
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At the same time, Deutsch embarked on his lifelong involvement with
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Arts in Exile in Britain 1933–1945: Politics and Cultural Identity
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should recruit Friedmann and Philby as agents. Deutsch recruited
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Mask: MI5's Penetration Of The Communist Party Of Great Britain
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Mask: MI5's Penetration of the Communist Party of Great Britain
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and who would be instrumental in his later espionage career.
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The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era
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The Philby Files – The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
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as a recruiter and member of the Cambridge Five spy ring.
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Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov
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In the 2003 four-part BBC television drama about the
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spy ring from 1933 to 1937, when he was replaced by
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Index

University of Vienna
Cambridge Five
Oscar Deutsch
Austrian
Czech
Hungarian
spy
Kim Philby
Oscar Deutsch
Odeon Cinemas
Jew
University of Vienna
Wilhelm Reich
Communism
Soviet Union
OMS
Comintern
Edith Suschitzky
Vienna
Comintern
Nazi
Willi Lehmann
Gestapo
psychology
University of London
Isokon building
Hampstead
Rupert Allason
Walter Krivitsky
Latvian

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