1. Treason and Traitors.
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King, Robert D.
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TREASON , *TRAITORS , *SPIES , *ANTIHEROES - Abstract
This article examines the changes in the climate of thinking about treason and traitors since the end of World War II. If it can be said without tedious qualification and fear of misunderstanding that treason is an interesting topic and the traitor an interesting figure, sometimes even a sympathetic figure, no such inhibitions apply to the spy. The traitor-as-antihero is a romantic illusion that withers under close examination; there is nothing heroic about most spies and most traitors. What these men did sent innocent men to their deaths; good people were tortured and killed because of the things that Harold Philby, a counterespionage official of the British Military Intelligence, did. He betrayed Soviet defectors and guerillas in Eastern Europe who had aided England during World War II.
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- 1998
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