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Of course the Americans had plenty of espionage problems of their own but we were so incompetent and failed to act so often that the FBI felt obliged to out some of our spies for us. The other thing is why we seemed to recruit spies whose background and personality gave them the charisma to...

'The Spy who went into the Cold' was on BBC4 last Monday night and repeated last night. Presumably it is now on i-player. Mainly about Philby, but gives a good feel for the messy state of our national security in that era and how the spies slipped through the net many times. I also recall one...

Both the film and TV series were excellent in their own ways. I enjoyed how they portrayed the whole spy business as a grey, seedy and unglamorous business, the complete opposite to Hollywood's images. The film was brilliantly acted in a very understated way which gave it all the more edge. I...