Whitehall Farce
Paul Foot, 12 October 1989
The Intelligence Game: Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage
by James Rusbridger.
Bodley Head, 320 pp., £12.95, August 1989,0 370 31242 2 Show More
by James Rusbridger.
Bodley Head, 320 pp., £12.95, August 1989,
“... that the secretary of the committee which planned it was the British MI6 officer and Russian spy, George Blake, who passed details of the entire operation to the Russians two years before the tunnel was completed. Here, too, is the story of MI6’s courageous decision to order Commander Lionel Crabb to swim under a Russian warship in Portsmouth to take ... ”