ESPIONAGE MIDSUMMER DRAGNET THROUGHOUT THE WORLD LAST WEEK, SECRET AGENTS WERE ON 
THE MOVE MANY OF THEM IN THE DIRECTION OF JAIL . 
THE U.S . HAD JUST ROUNDED UP ITS FOURTH OF JULY 
CATCH ; WEST GERMANY WAS TRYING THREE SPIES WHO HAD PENETRATED 
ITS SUPPOSEDLY IMPENETRABLE GEHLEN INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION (SEE FOLLOWING STORY) ; AND 
BRITAIN HAD TWO SPY THRILLERS RUNNING CONCURRENTLY . DEFEATED MACHINERY . 
ON TRIAL IN LONDON, ITALIAN-BORN ATOMIC PHYSICIST GIUSEPPE MARTELLI TRIED TO 
EXPLAIN AWAY HIS POSSESSION OF HOLLOW-HEELED SHOES SUITABLE FOR CONCEALING MICROFILM, 
CIGARETTE PACKS CONTAINING THIN, INFLAMMABLE MESSAGE PADS, SHEETS OF RENDEZVOUS INSTRUCTIONS, 
A HIGH-POWERED CAMERA, AND A SUPER-STRENGTH RADIO RECEIVER . HE HAD 
ACCEPTED ALL THESE GADGETS FROM THE RUSSIANS, HE SAID, ONLY TO 
STRING THEM ALONG AND THEN DENOUNCE THEM AT THE RIGHT TIME 
TO THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES . ASKED THE JUDGE : / YOU 
FELT THAT YOU COULD DEFEAT THE WHOLE MACHINERY OF SOVIET INTELLIGENCE 
? " AND, ALSO IN LONDON, ONE OF THE ODDEST OF 
THE SPY CASES CAME TO LIGHT WHEN THE GOVERNMENT ADMITTED THAT 
IT WAS GRANTING ASYLUM TO ANATOLY DOLNYTSIN, A FORMER SENIOR RUSSIAN 
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER WHO DEFECTED TO THE WEST 18 MONTHS AGO, AND 
HAD SPENT THE INTERVENING TIME BEING THOROUGHLY PUMPED BY U.S . 
AND BRITISH AGENTS . ONE REPORTED RESULT : THE REVELATION THAT 
BRITISH NEWSMAN H.A.R . PHILBY WAS INDEED THE " THIRD MAN 
" WHO ENABLED SPIES BURGESS AND MACLEAN TO ESCAPE ARREST AND 
FLEE TO RUSSIA IN 1951 . LAST WINTER PHILBY, TOO, SLIPPED 
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN JUST AHEAD OF PURSUING MI-5 AGENTS . 
ALTHOUGH THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE QUITE A SHOW OF ASKING THE 
BRITISH PRESS NOT TO PRINT THE STORY, THE AUTHORITIES HAD IN 
FACT LEAKED IT . LABORITES CHARGED THAT THIS POSSIBLY ENDANGERED DOLNYTSIN, 
WHO IS SOMEWHERE IN A BRITISH HIDEOUT, AND THAT DOLNYTSIN WAS 
BEING UNVEILED NOW BY MACMILLAN'S GOVERNMENT IN THE HOPE OF CLAIMING 
A SPY SUCCESS AFTER SO MANY SECURITY DISASTERS . FINGERED SPIES 
. SO MANY RED SPIES ARE CAUGHT, PROBABLY BECAUSE THERE ARE 
SO MANY MORE OF THEM AROUND. THE U.S . STATE DEPARTMENT 
ESTIMATES THAT THE COMMUNIST NATIONS EMPLOY MORE THAN 300,000 TRAINED AGENTS, 
WHO ARE HELPED IN THEIR PRYING BY THE " LEGAL " 
SPIES ATTACHED TO THE 46 SOVIET EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS IN THE 
FREE WORLD . (THE U.S . OPERATES WITH A CRACK CORPS 
OF AGENTS ONLY ABOUT ONE-FIFTH AS LARGE.) BUT WHY WERE SO 
MANY RED SPIES COMING TO LIGHT AT ONCE ? WHENEVER ONE 
GREAT POWER HAS A BIG ESPIONAGE ROUNDUP, AS RUSSIA DID LAST 
MAY IN THE TRIAL OF RUSSIAN SCIENTIST OLEG PENKOVSKY, WHO TURNED 
OUT TO BE A LONGTIME WESTERN AGENT, SPIES ELSEWHERE BRACE THEMSELVES 
FOR A PERIOD OF ROUGH WEATHER . FURTHERMORE, THERE IS A 
SEASONAL FACTOR INVOLVED ; SUMMER IS THE TRADITIONAL TIME TO PUT 
THE FINGER ON SPIES . AROUND THE END OF JUNE, MANY 
COMMUNIST " DIPLOMATS " PREPARE TO GO HOME FOR VACATIONS AND 
NEW INSTRUCTIONS . HAVING HAD AN EYE ON THEM ALREADY, THE 
FBI THEN OFTEN DECIDES TO POUNCE AND EXPOSE THEM BEFORE THEY 
CAN BE REASSIGNED . NATIVE PASSION . ONE FACT TO EMERGE 
FROM THE RECENT WAVE OF ARRESTS IS THAT THE SOVIET APPARATUS 
SEEMS SENTIMENTALLY FOND OF SUCH OLD CLOAK-AND-DAGGER STANDBYS AS FALSE BOTTOMS 
IN VALISES, HIDDEN COMPARTMENTS IN TALCUM-POWDER CANS AND TOOTHPASTE TUBES, AND 
FLASHLIGHTS WITH MESSAGE CHAMBERS INSTEAD OF BATTERIES . A RUSSIAN SPY'S 
RESIDENCE USUALLY HAS AS MANY TRAP DOORS, HOLLOW BEAMS, FALSE WALLS, 
SECRET PASSAGES AND DOUBLE- AND TRIPLE-LOCKED DOORS AS A GRADE B 
HORROR MOVIE . ACTUALLY, AGENTS BOTH EAST AND WEST HAVE BENEFITED 
ENORMOUSLY FROM FAR MORE MODERN DEVICES . IT IS NOW POSSIBLE 
TO EAVESDROP ON A CONVERSATION HELD IN THE MIDDLE OF AN 
EMPTY PRAIRIE BY SIMPLY POINTING A BEAM OF LIGHT FROM 500 
YARDS AWAY . NEW CAMERAS CAN TAKE PICTURES IN TOTAL DARKNESS 
WITHOUT THE USE OF INFRA-RED LIGHT . FINELY GROUND LENSES CAN 
ZOOM IN FROM BLOCKS AWAY TO PICK UP THE FINE PRINT 
ON AN INSURANCE POLICY . BUT THE SOVIETS LIKE THE MORE 
OLD-FASHIONED AND ROMANTIC GADGETS, MOSTLY, IT SEEMS, FROM A NATIVE PASSION 
FOR MELODRAMA . RECENTLY NABBED RED AGENTS INCLUDE SWEDEN'S EX-MILITARY ATTACHE 
STIG WENNERSTROM ; RUSSIA'S IVAN EGEROV AND WIFE, ATTACHED TO THE 
U.N . SECRETARIAT ; TWO UNIDENTIFIED RUSSIANS CAUGHT IN WASHINGTON USING 
THE NAMES AND PAPERS OF INNOCENT LIVING AMERICANS, AS WELL AS 
A BRITISH CORPORAL, A FRENCH NAVAL RESERVIST, A UMAN AND HALF 
A DOZEN RUSSIAN, RUMANIAN AND CZECH DIPLOMATS . 