Saturday, October 06, 2018

For tradecraft fans... The Spy and the Traitor - BBC Book of the Week

Enjoyed listening to this on a long drive yesterday.

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintrye
Ben Mcintyre's thrilling history tells the breathtaking story of a KGB double-agent operating at the height of the Cold War.
Passing countless secrets to his British spymasters at M16 over the course of a decade he undermined the Soviet Union's intelligence gathering machine from deep within. Eventually, he was betrayed and what followed was a sequence of events involving ingenuity, duplicity, and fearlessness.
Read by Tim McInnerny.
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0blvnxb

Interesting in the light of recent claims/revelations.
You can understand how people who join and risk their lives, put their trust in colleagues, don't take well to traitors.

See also
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintrye review – the astonishing story of a cold war superspy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/19/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre-review

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