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every biography of a British spy:
"I see in the August 1933 issue of Isis you wrote a piece entitled 'How I Intend to Conceal My Ideology and Infiltrate MI5 for the Soviet Union"
"oh yes but I've quite put that youthful stuff behind me now"
"jolly good, how's your old man?"
"I see in the August 1933 issue of Isis you wrote a piece entitled 'How I Intend to Conceal My Ideology and Infiltrate MI5 for the Soviet Union"
"oh yes but I've quite put that youthful stuff behind me now"
"jolly good, how's your old man?"
later "Last night he got squiffy drunk, stripped off his clothes in the Kit-Kat Club, and started singing 'I Spy For Moscow" to the tune of "God Save the Queen."
"Hmm. Drink makes chaps do funny things. And he did say on his word as a gentleman that he was *not* a spy."
"Hmm. Drink makes chaps do funny things. And he did say on his word as a gentleman that he was *not* a spy."
later in the House of Commons - "Will the Prime Minister tell us why, despite listing his interests as 'Buggery, treason, and cricket' in the 1956 Who's Who, suspicion never fell ..."
later still 'Dear Bunny, As I sit here as a decorated KGB colonel, I know that my service to the Cause was true. But please do bring a few things from London next time you visit: crumpets, the Times, Wisden, strawberry jam, a working kettle and toaster, a picture of Mother'
