donald maclean's college years are amazing. he runs around cambridge shouting "i am a communist!" and writing essays about how communism is good for the cambridge communist weekly and then graduates and is like ok i'm going to join the foreign service now and it's fine
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there are some wonderful moments in A Spy Among Friends when MI5 ask to go after him and the aristocratic MI6 guys think "he can't be a spy... I know his father!"
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the best evidence of this isn't so much the spies, but kim philby's father, the arabist St John Philby. He had gone completely native, converted to Islam, married a literal slave girl given to him by ibn saud, was interned for being mildly pro german and still got kim a job
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also crazy that "st. john" is pronounced "sinjin "
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A friend was vetted for AWE and the bloke genuinely came back to his college room and said 'sorry, forgot to ask, are you a poofter?'
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