I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.