NaPoWriMo Day Twelve
agents: adoption of cover names 63, 82 cover professions and stories 17, 65, 163, 538 disclosure of names xi-xii documentation on xiv-xv, 189 fabrication of intelligence 185, 186, 187, 188, 190-191, 194, 220, 740 personality traits and frailties 29, 63-4, 163, 415, 463, 494, 57, 570, 594 problems in recruiting in peace time 662-3 salaries and payments 16, 19, 20, 29, 35, 90, 180, 193, 249, 275-6, 429-30, 455, 460, 650, 652, 662-3, 77ini SIS granted sole control of overseas agents 48-9, 729 training for agents 537-8, 543, 589, 625-6 ‘MI6 The History of the Secret intelligence Service 1909-1949’ by Keith Jefferey SPY Stamped out in capitals, like half squashed bugs on a page, real names are a low level hum somewhere in the background. Snow, Biscuit, Garbo… You stop seeing the people, the faces behind the codes. Their twisted up personalities become something to pick apart. Who was he? What drove him? Why did he do it? Did anyone know the real him? The shock and horror, or the old boy’s betrayal. Did they …