...the calibre of the type of guy you place stock in???
Tsk tsk tsk......
Wilfred Burchett
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wilfred Graham Burchett (September 16, 1911, Melbourne, Australia — September 27, 1983, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a war correspondent and KGB agent known for his coverage sympathetic to communism.
He was the first Westerner to cover the aftermath of the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima with his accounts reported by the London Daily Express newspaper. His article that appeared in the Daily Express on September 5, 1945, entitled, "The Atomic Plague", was the first public report to mention the effects of radiation and nuclear fallout.
After World War II, he spoke out against atomic weapons and against banning the Communist Party.
He covered the Korean War from the point of view of the communist north. He had a Chinese press credential and reported details of alleged atrocities by United Nations forces in Korea.
KGB defector Yuri Krotkov testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in 1970 that Burchett had supplied information to the KGB and that he worked for Hanoi and Beijing as an agent. Krotkov, Burchett’s KGB control officer, also reported that Burchett was a secret member of the Australian Communist Party. Krotkov's testimony on Burchett was confirmed by North Vietnamese defectors Bui Cong Tuong and Ming Trung. Trung and Tuong reported disappeared a short time later, believed murdered on order from Hanoi.
