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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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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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