Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

Burgess would, later in life, tell friends that he had heard his mother screaming and rushed in to find her trapped under the dead but still priapic body of his father. As they floated down to their lost homeland in that hour before dawn, they did not know that the Soviet secret police were waiting for them in those dark forests below. They attributed the accusations against Deksnys as evidence of political infighting between Lukša and Deksnys. But no evidence of the list or victims from it has ever emerged within the wealth of declassified information in either London or Moscow.