KGB bid to take scientist Lovell
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SOVIET spymasters tried to force a top British scientist to defect at the height of the Cold War.

Sir Bernard Lovell, the man behind the Jodrell Bank observatory, today reveals he was a secret adviser to the British military - and that he was prevented from leaving the Soviet Union during a visit in the 1960s.

 



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Ross keeps his job

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