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“Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East vs. West” – with Calder Walton

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The Importance of Arthur Martin

Arthur Martin was a skilled MI5 officer but he was caught up in this conspiracy theory. No evidence has emerged from KGB records or Soviet military intelligence archives to suggest that this was the case. So it's instill possible that Roger Hollis was in fact a Russian agent. But I don't think he was. I think the evidence suggests that he wasn't. There are series of operations, series of counter espionage investigations under his watch which would have been inexplicable if he had really been an operative for Russia.

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