Hammer and Pickle
6:18 Sun Oct 11
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Yes, Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby are justified in exactly the same hyper-cynical fashion.
They helped to consign half of Europe to almost 50 years of totalitarian dictatorship, poverty, repression and miserable lives and deaths, yet they still find comfortable apologists in the West they sought to bring down.
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Nurse Ratched
6:17 Sun Oct 11
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When I apply eyeliner and mascara, it's meant to make me look as pretty as Anna Friel.
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Far Cough
6:15 Sun Oct 11
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Comma, there is some evidence to suggest that Stalin and Beria used the Klaus Fuchs atomic information, as a double check against their own calculations, personally, I take that with a pinch of salt, Kurchatov and Sakharov were very able physicists but to come up with a design that was remarkably similar in all respects to the US led one was no coincidence
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WHOicidal Maniac
6:09 Sun Oct 11
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William Grover-Williams and Robert Marcel Charles Benois
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6:08 Sun Oct 11
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With respect nurse the forming of the European Coal and Steel community, lead by Robert Schumann and Konrad Adenhauer, was meant to bind the Western European nations together in such a way as to ensure much needed peace.
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Nurse Ratched
6:03 Sun Oct 11
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No, I think you'll find it's the EU we have to thank, Comma, not the threat of MAD.
The EU is the only thing that stops Putin (PUTIN!) and his predecessors murdering us in our beds. The EU also prevents significant meteorite strikes, bad AIDS and warm beer. I only wish I could pay more money into the EU, and accommodate more Bulgarian coffee shop monkeys.
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5:49 Sun Oct 11
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Klaus Fuchs is my favourite. He was responsible for helping the SU catch up with the USA in the nuclear arms race. The resulting mass destruction stalemate has ensured super power stability to this day.
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Briano
5:35 Sun Oct 11
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The most inept spy had to be the German Josef Jacobs, after breaking his ankle jumping out of the plane he parachuted then broke his leg. He attracted attention by firing his pistol and was picked up by the Army in the English countryside. They found all his maps and paraphernalia, promptly took him to the Tower of London where he was tried and sentenced to death by firing squad. Because he couldn't stand up he had to sit in a chair with a target on his chest.
August 1941, the last execution at the Tower.
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Nurse Ratched
3:10 Sun Oct 11
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Arf! @ David Shayler. Massive narcissist.
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joe blob
3:07 Sun Oct 11
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David Shaylor anyone?
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Lovejoy
2:59 Sun Oct 11
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Lancelot Link Secret Chimp.
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Saul Bollox
1:35 Sun Oct 11
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& whoever George Smiley was based on.
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Saul Bollox
1:34 Sun Oct 11
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James Bond old fashioned hetero-sexual. Not at all like the Cambridge lot.
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Coffee
1:31 Sun Oct 11
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peroni
I can't make my mind up about him. One the one hand, he's exposed something rotten. On the other, he's betrayed trust.
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peroni
12:58 Sun Oct 11
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Least favourite - Edward Snowden, the traitor.
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Ronald_antly
12:51 Sun Oct 11
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Austin Powers
International Man of Mystery.
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Coffee
12:49 Sun Oct 11
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And former WHUFC secretary.
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peroni
12:44 Sun Oct 11
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Eddie Chapman - Agent ZigZag.
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Coffee
12:42 Sun Oct 11
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Far Cough 12:30 Sun Oct 11
I was just reading about her the other day. A remarkable woman.
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Hammer and Pickle
12:38 Sun Oct 11
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All the English upper class who became spies for the Soviet Union were unusually sick individuals.
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Far Cough
12:30 Sun Oct 11
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Nurse Edith Cavell, not strictly a spy but executed by the Germans for "treason"
My mother and sister were both named after her
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