
The Shadow Dossier — The Talent Spotter Who Built the Cambridge Ring
In the early 1930s, a Austrian-born intellectual named Arnold Deutsch arrived in London, ostensibly to pursue academic work, holding a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna. In reality, Deutsch was an experienced Soviet intelligence officer for the NKVD, operating under the cover name Otto, and his assignment was one of the most consequential in the history of Soviet espionage: to identify and recruit talented young people at Britain's elite universities, long before they held any position worth spying for, and cultivate them over years into ideologically committed agents.
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