This is the story of the Portland Spy Ring, the last of the three great cases from what one author has called: “The Golden Age of Treachery” (the other two being the Cambridge Spies and George Blake). Although the movie was given a cinematic release in 1964, it is so …
Regardless of your nationality, you usually learn two things soon after you start training as an intelligence officer: one is the importance of studying the more menial kind of target for recruitment. Many successful operations have begun by recruiting an office cleaner, secretary or security guard rather than going straight …
This is what they used to call a good old “rainy afternoon” movie. It is filmed in black and white and the upper lips are so stiff that you could set out your tea and cucumber sandwiches on them. The title is a bit of a misnomer as the “spy” …