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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ted fenton
10:12 Sun Oct 11
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The one in Stingray
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Mad Dog
10:14 Sun Oct 11
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Bond. James bond
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Far Cough
10:15 Sun Oct 11
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It was a travesty that Ethel Rosenberg was sent to the chair
Klaus Fuchs
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Sven Roeder
10:19 Sun Oct 11
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Maxwell Smart
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Sven Roeder
10:22 Sun Oct 11
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& George Smiley
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Marston Hammer
10:23 Sun Oct 11
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The best spies are ones I've never heard of.
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Fivetide
10:28 Sun Oct 11
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Secret Squirrel
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Far Cough
10:45 Sun Oct 11
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The Cambridge Five
Otherwise known as Cambridge University
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Nurse Ratched
10:47 Sun Oct 11
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Martin.
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Coffee
10:53 Sun Oct 11
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Lockheed or House?
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Fivetide
10:55 Sun Oct 11
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Actually, Inch-high Privat Eye had madder skillz
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Iron Duke
11:33 Sun Oct 11
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Roman Malinovsky. He completely fooled Stalin and Lenin - or did he? I find his life fascinating.
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Brussels Sprout
11:56 Sun Oct 11
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Violette Szabo - a true heroine.
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Coffee
11:57 Sun Oct 11
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There's something intriguing about Anthony Blunt.
As an idealistic youngster, he was taken by the sense of fairness he found in Marx which also contrasted with the growing fascism in Spain and Germany at the time. A willing and well-placed recruit to the cause.
Got himself into royal circles, although he was a distant relation of the Queen, then lost interest in playing an active role in espionage. But association and the foibles of youth would never relinquish their grasp on him and was unmasked by Maggie Thatcher soon after she became PM.
Was he perhaps Britain's best know harmless spy?
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joey5000
12:05 Sun Oct 11
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Sterling ARCHER.
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Far Cough
12:06 Sun Oct 11
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Blunt wasn't harmless at all, he probably was behind the recruitment of many spies for the Soviets?
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Coffee
12:06 Sun Oct 11
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Brussels Sprout 11:56 Sun Oct 11
Just looked her up on Wiki -- interesting and, as you say, brave.
Did you ever read a book called Charlotte Grey?
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Coffee
12:07 Sun Oct 11
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FC
I thought you might pick up on that!!
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Far Cough
12:20 Sun Oct 11
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Why, it's a very salient and important point?
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Hammer and Pickle
12:25 Sun Oct 11
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Noor Inayat Khan
Her family did mine an enormous favour in the 1970s in the time of the Soviet Union.
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