Monthly Archives: February 2018
A meeting with a Czech ‘friend’
I am glad I caught the BBC’s John Simpson’s fascinating recollection this morning of his avoidance of an attempted honey pot trap by the communist Czech intelligence service during the Cold War. It brought back memories of a somewhat more mundane encounter I had many years later , thankfully devoid of any attempted sexual subversion, and involving a very different, and genuinely friendly kind of spy of the same nationality. It took place during a weekend conference at Oxford’s St Antony’s College, attended by an assortment of academics, …
