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,
“... British Intelligence to the element which best suits it: farce. At one level this book can be read as a series of Hilarious Tales. It describes, for instance, the elaborate plan by the CIA and MI6 in the early Fifties to tunnel into the Russian sector of Berlin, so that communications from there could be ‘monitored’. The plan was called Operation ... ”