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2 giorni fa · Even then, all might have been lost but for the quick-thinking wife of diplomat Raymond Asquith, Viscount Asquith and MI6 station commander in Moscow at the time. By changing their baby’s dirty nappy on the boot, she successfully threw border officials and sniffer dogs off the scent – by now quite unpleasant after being on the run – of Gordievsky.
3 giorni fa · Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel. “I wasn’t excited. I was bloody frightened, actually,” he said.
6 giorni fa · It would later transpire that Aldrich Ames, a CIA agent secretly informing the Soviets, had identified Gordievsky as a double agent. In Moscow, Raymond Asquith, now the 3rd Earl of Oxford and...
2 giorni fa · Operation Pimlico involved signalling via a Safeway carrier bag, a Harrods bag and a Mars bar; a car chase to shake off KGB officers; and a judicious nappy change that distracted sniffer dogs from the scent of Gordievsky hiding in the boot. Raymond Asquith, now 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was the MI6 officer behind the wheel.
Raymond Herbert Asquith (1878–1916) Edward Julian George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1916–2011) Raymond Benedict Bartholomew Michael Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (b. 1952) Representative peer in the House of Lords from 2014, replacing Lord Methuen.
5 giorni fa · Gordievsky, pictured here in disguise in 1990, worked for British Intelligence during the height of the Cold War – David Levenson If there is one eternal rule of spycraft, Professor Sir David Omand says, “it’s that you’ve got to really understand your adversary.” The dangerous alternative is to guess. “The ...
1 giorno fa · Arthur Balfour. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL ( / ˈbælfər, - fɔːr /, [1] 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), also known as Lord Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ...
