Dumbleweed 10:10 Sun Oct 11
Who is your favourite spy?
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Always liked the story of Mata Hari.
Ethel Rosenberg was very unlucky to be sent to the electric chair.
The story of Oleg Gordievski's escape from the Soviet Union is the stuff of great adventure stories, but he himself seems to come across as a bit of a big head.
The stories of the Cambridge Four/Five are fascinating for the apparent ease with which they were able to get into the their respective positions - and stay there - and for their social histories.
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chad sexington
7:57 Tue Oct 13
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Eddie Chapman
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Coffee
7:02 Tue Oct 13
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Lily, I share your thoughts about Kim Philby.
To whoever mentioned Edith Cavell: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034cf4x
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Lily Hammer
3:42 Mon Oct 12
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George Smiley.
John Le Carre is the real deal. Love his books, and am reading Smiley's People at the moment.
Smiley is based half on Le Carre himself, but more on whoever his mentor was back in the 60s.
In real life, I have to admire the wheelbarrow-filling balls of Kim Philby, simply for having the nerve to rise so high in the British Secret Service over all those years without cracking. I can't imagine what it is like to carry such heavy secrets for so long.
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yngwies Cat
2:27 Mon Oct 12
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Without doubt
Eddie Chapman or Agent ZigZag
His story is great. Ex safe cracker turned double agent, even fooled the Germans into awarding him an Iron Cross.
Some has to make a film about him.
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Gloucester Iron
2:09 Mon Oct 12
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Jamo Thomas...
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Dan M
12:52 Mon Oct 12
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The white one.
No hang on, the black one.
Well, they both had their good points, bit they really didn't like each other.
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Huffers
10:34 Sun Oct 11
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Eye
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Mrs Wilberforce
10:14 Sun Oct 11
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I like Harry Pearce from Spooks, regardless of whats going on he always look like he badly needs to have a shit.
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zebthecat
9:54 Sun Oct 11
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Dangermouse
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subcutaneous
9:52 Sun Oct 11
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I think Agent Lomas did a fantastic job south of the river recently.
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Jonah Lomas
9:51 Sun Oct 11
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Definitely Maxwell Smart, although Agent 99 was also fairly competent, and certainly good looking.
Honourable mention to the white one in Spy vs Spy.
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BRANDED
9:37 Sun Oct 11
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A spy among freinds is one if the best books I've read
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bruuuno
9:24 Sun Oct 11
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Agent zigzag
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Far Cough
9:12 Sun Oct 11
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Harry Palmer
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BRANDED
9:11 Sun Oct 11
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My favourite fiction is spies. I love the idea of living outside the normality of life. Its a fascinating aspect of the human condition. One that only a few get to do.
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Any Old Iron
9:05 Sun Oct 11
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Bollox, Sven beat me to Maxwell Smart. Get Smart was one of the great US 60's comedies. Created and written by Mel Brooks.
Pardon me while I get my shoe phone.
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stomper
7:33 Sun Oct 11
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A good book on spies and adventurers is "The Great Game" about how Britain and Russia totally fucked over Afghanistan in the 19th century
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stewey
6:30 Sun Oct 11
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Jo porter
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stomper
6:25 Sun Oct 11
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Who was the Israeli spy be became second in command of the Syrian military.
He got the Syrians to hide their artillery on the Golan heights by planting trees around their gun emplacements making them clearly visible to the Israelis
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Hammer and Pickle
6:18 Sun Oct 11
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Yes, Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby are justified in exactly the same hyper-cynical fashion.
They helped to consign half of Europe to almost 50 years of totalitarian dictatorship, poverty, repression and miserable lives and deaths, yet they still find comfortable apologists in the West they sought to bring down.
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