Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett
[PDF file]: […] the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 estimated that of the near-1,000 Soviet officials (and wives) in the UK, a quarter were involved in ‘undiplomatic activities’. How had this been allowed to happen? […]
