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Ep. 35: Wilderness of Mirrors

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrews

A young female diplomat turned up. And he told her his deeply improbable story, that at the bottom of this bag there were samples of top secret material from the k g b. She asked him a question er which is, makes me proud to be british. It's a question which only a british diplomat could ask. D the question was, would you like a cup of tea? Man speaking there is christopher andrews, probably the greatest historian of western intelligence, alive right now. He ended up co authoring with matroken a two thousand an one history of the k gb based on his archives that were smuggled out of russia. I highly recommend

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