[1] In 1934, Pool was awarded the Deakin History Essay Prize, but her mental illness prevented her from taking her degree.
She received a BA in 1957 with first class honours and two years later she obtained her PhD with her thesis on the literary and philosophical background to the early work of Pablo Picasso.
Peter Wright, the author of Spycatcher (1987), claims that Deutsch established a spy network based around the University of Oxford.
In 1963, Michael Straight faced a background check in response to an offer of government employment in Washington, D.C., and decided voluntarily to inform family friend and presidential special assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. about his communist connections at Cambridge.
[2] Pool confirmed Blunt's story and admitted passing messages with Hart to the Floud brothers from "Otto", identified as Arnold Deutsch.