Never in anyone's memory had such strict security measures been clapped on a criminal trial at the Old Bailey in peacetime. Hordes of police cordoned off the sidewalk outside, allowed no one near the courtroom. When the trial began, Lord Chief Justice Lord Parker ordered the doors locked, the windows shuttered. In the dock was George Blake, 38, a British Foreign Service official, who had confessed that for 9½ years he had fed Moscow a steady flow of Britain's closest secrets.
"I must admit freely," Blake stated in his confession, "that there was not an official document on any matter...
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