Boarder or Day Boy?
Bernard Porter: Secrecy in Britain, 15 July 1999
The Culture of Secrecy in Britain 1832-1998
by David Vincent.
Oxford, 364 pp., £25, January 1999,0 19 820307 1 Show More
by David Vincent.
Oxford, 364 pp., £25, January 1999,
“... in Moscow, people shuddered as they hurried by. Millions must have passed MI5’s old registry in Curzon Street without a tremor. We just did not know it was there. Even possible recruits to the secret services were kept ignorant of their existence. I know because I was once interviewed for MI6 without realising it. (Or it may have been for the Information ... ”