The Shadow Over MI6 and the Beginning of a Spy's Career

Sir Richard Dirlove joined MI6 in 1966, at a time when the service was recovering from the penetration of Kim Philby and George Blake. When he first joined, he was unaware of the full extent of the service's penetration. The existence of two different camps, one believing the service would take decades to recover, and the other confident in rebuilding the service, was discussed. Dirlove's experience as a young operative in Prague in 1973, running an important case against the Czech intelligence service, was described.