05-24-2022, 06:05 AM
(05-23-2022, 11:23 PM)BostonCard Wrote: I just watched operation mincemeat on Netflix, if you want some gold old fashioned British spy stuff that doesn’t succum to the “British plot”. Helps that, as best I can tell, it is historically pretty accurate. Bonus points to the subtle digs at a certain British spy author.
BC
It cracks me up that the Oxbridge Twums fancy themselves the ultimate spymasters and that the popular imagination indulges them in this fantasy. At the height of the Cold War, the MI-6 head of Soviet Counterintelligence, Kim Philby, himself was a KGB spy.
