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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 4925814, member: 83175&quot;]To kinda bring it back onto coins, I bought this book - a gedenkschrift rather than a festschrift as it was presented posthumously - a few years back:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/8hytUrpKmrzLIs0HpCbv4KZvBmCmtfJVg41-9T1h64flybLied_NGieJ9qM8ag0YMWUrbOikGXoIcuPW2Okg3uecKiGItqWnzcnvjFVhhYK8fS4rWJ7XBEOvUsfspH-UuCdZpDhETTOVGGFw1JfnfhHyRpG7BgVBrk7P_w3u12RfPQ_QZM8lKCgfel2MsUYheAPiA_bovyawv4BxP33e6KUWKNCdLKATHSdTCo2IQP4TDmmf2wvb-iKjn9FgQXjZnFavU9VZCxf2sbz4oX8TEyn5LMzgzz-Eho6CaDiYOjFjyuY12GgTnaLrGHem38RG9JhXUBmyTKV7Au-jWjvrFcQgtoI-YpcQ2dNppfwjXgeZlc20o_0fG0qZ5CtrSYB480DPucWt1ZswsICxLcsSbeC49oNgBWDxxbHSgwNEWiBQKc7sS2DNWIvbuSrcigh6pgEfp3W6k5sW_HLWfaqSsJmO-zmF48yECbPbSbuALUO6UnoWM3yamiBv_FUB5bt7Ihb-DArL1Fi22apGiCyRlPXpyc2FTrl8BTd6u4JZBis5pmWA2dXwyWNpK-JXEbCZL7amRJSI8pm_c6c_9gZ-dhZXYNA-QLv2Jdu-kveqDMWVDao3QqzeEUklU2oIM4EDkn7iJDcUUDV-009j0VU1cfENVm-hcbwlcW-12z54GxUwef9FC28GUYzDY7W0Gwc=w1203-h950-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>and was interested to find the previous owner&#039;s bookplate:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AVDkUy-y6mckgCYQwUgAWt0BNS_ry1ybkPf_gDrzWj2_JDA2ST-unM4wpn_ypPI6QQyXvDnbtEDYsok7m6oF67uJlnZPk2RxqwX2mFe4DG1U3Kuv8eju5orOcpCE6Cirqom24AlvIpIiV77wEBSRVv3S-BIhfoUP89wlJOhHwY3e-NJx1HI4lT65BzQGg6iqGXPT40sVAMbA0MqoeBa5smtyFJWg1WtPCKJi9tA6_iiha7XPIJu9F4g5pojttHZawT_DTXt_FnBPfihVvfj5vomyj_InChd9_9XewV17CE5nh8vUgWGGfZRSfZTovMlOL_-VdJ9htCjOt7D57oSFSnDWxrtm1LpzrIPaigcaf_z2t-QylCO2AvPftBKyllF96o8RB8qmWXxIw7yJZuFIGvjmyPDeJEWIVGQQed2-F-f0rmIgA8kF6iBoKB15ov7Gdbqw9yH386z7lPmd87uFErAd4Ir0C_Wuwos1QK5w3Ywwxhp-_2_ZXGXuBqRNyovFzhuLvMqjwgN9QHXrZ52yweBmUPJWHnk9lCcvwhWLiABJD0tYHu6B6THEIP1K9zrR3Fe2ofbUN19MhJYpOUpIK-SMWAZWaS3Fw-v5_dYKvVbVaBVTJ0C7ZvDcpwKdJ-r_ycO2Kz976eD7-CvOJVUiLkAOv4KzGoM_-NhvAm33xKbm7u8o6umOxYihQItQsz8=w1612-h1217-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>An eminent numismatist (he had an article in the book) and also a brother of Anthony Blunt, one of the Cambridge Five along with Kim Philby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember &quot;Spy Catcher&quot;&#039;s release in the 1980s and the UK government&#039;s efforts to suppress it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&#039;t pay much attention but many years later I read a very interesting article, I think in an IEEE publication, on &quot;The Thing&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was a brilliant listening device which apparently was undetected (though in open view) in the US embassy in Moscow for about five and a half years.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was designed by Leon Theremin, better known for his musical instrument, and even after its discovery baffled Western Intelligence until the same Peter Wright figured out how it worked.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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