A close friend of mine who was approached at Cambridge relayed a bizarre conversation several stages into the process in which an MI6 officer asked him if he had a girlfriend and – ‘excuse the impertinence’ – what social class she belonged to.
After the war, when the city was divided into four sectors for allied occupation, the UK’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, started its most creative cold war operations. Peter Lunn, head of MI6’s ...