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.