Naval Lieutenant Donald McCormick (1911–1998), aka Richard Deacon;
free marketeer; Foreign Manager, The Sunday Times . In The British
Connection: Russia’s manipulation of british individuals and institutions
(1979), he declared that A. C. Pigou was ‘an astonishingly deceptive character
who was to become certainly the most secret and in many respects
one of the most effective Russian agents in fifty years’. In 1905, Pigou
had published Principles and Methods of Industrial Peace ; according to The
British Connection , he had been simultaneously gun-running for Stalin.