David Smith, who worked security at the British Embassy in Berlin was sentenced today for his attempts to sell information to the Russians.
A very interesting story. I’m sure it will be a tv movie before too long.
Thinking about it-was this big news in the UK? In America, I don’t know that we heard much about it.
It was pretty big news.
Put it this way - these days I find the news very hard to cope with, but nevertheless I was well aware of it.
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No doubt somebody will give it a go, but it’ll take a very good writer to make it particularly watchable. We’re not talking high-octane masterspy excitements - just someone naively self-deluding and easily caught.
Oddly enough one of our archive channels was just re-running a 1960s film about a similar, but rather more serious case:
