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<p>[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4926214, member: 93702"]Extremely interesting post and an amazing job to swing this back to coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Which I will probably ruin with my next comment but I just can't resist: Spycatcher is such an amazing read as the secrets of the "spy game" of the 50's and 60's are explained in great detail (from a former MI5/MI6 Assistant Director) - it is such a different world from our "cyber" situation today. I still recall (from reading the novel 30 years ago) when MI-5 wanted to tail a suspected Russian agent on a walk in London to see where he would end up... They'd have one agent tail him for 1 block then peel off, they'd wait until the next day and have another agent pick him up at that spot and tail for 1 block and peel off.. and keep repeating day after day. agent after agent, until they found his home base.</p><p>No "trackers", no cell phone alerts, no CCTV cameras... its like reading a Hitchcock script... you just know its raining the whole time and they're wearing trench coats in the fog... So great.</p><p><br /></p><p>A tribute in Appreciation of Christopher Blunt ~ Numismatist</p><p><a href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1974_BNJ_42_4.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1974_BNJ_42_4.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital BNJ/pdfs/1974_BNJ_42_4.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And you can always grab a <a href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/spycatcher_peter-wright_paul-greengrass/282594/item/41708668/?mkwid=grUkFnyk%7cdc&pcrid=431439737978&product=41708668&plc=&pgrid=99876173906&ptaid=aud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_content=grUkFnyk%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c431439737978%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cproduct%7c41708668%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c99876173906%7cptaid%7caud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587%7c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw6G6p7em7AIVS73ACh2ZegkWEAQYBCABEgJQTPD_BwE#idiq=41708668&edition=2169589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/spycatcher_peter-wright_paul-greengrass/282594/item/41708668/?mkwid=grUkFnyk%7cdc&pcrid=431439737978&product=41708668&plc=&pgrid=99876173906&ptaid=aud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_content=grUkFnyk%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c431439737978%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cproduct%7c41708668%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c99876173906%7cptaid%7caud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587%7c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw6G6p7em7AIVS73ACh2ZegkWEAQYBCABEgJQTPD_BwE#idiq=41708668&edition=2169589" rel="nofollow">used copy of Spycatcher for $4</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 4926214, member: 93702"]Extremely interesting post and an amazing job to swing this back to coins! Which I will probably ruin with my next comment but I just can't resist: Spycatcher is such an amazing read as the secrets of the "spy game" of the 50's and 60's are explained in great detail (from a former MI5/MI6 Assistant Director) - it is such a different world from our "cyber" situation today. I still recall (from reading the novel 30 years ago) when MI-5 wanted to tail a suspected Russian agent on a walk in London to see where he would end up... They'd have one agent tail him for 1 block then peel off, they'd wait until the next day and have another agent pick him up at that spot and tail for 1 block and peel off.. and keep repeating day after day. agent after agent, until they found his home base. No "trackers", no cell phone alerts, no CCTV cameras... its like reading a Hitchcock script... you just know its raining the whole time and they're wearing trench coats in the fog... So great. A tribute in Appreciation of Christopher Blunt ~ Numismatist [URL='http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1974_BNJ_42_4.pdf']http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital BNJ/pdfs/1974_BNJ_42_4.pdf[/URL] And you can always grab a [URL='https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/spycatcher_peter-wright_paul-greengrass/282594/item/41708668/?mkwid=grUkFnyk%7cdc&pcrid=431439737978&product=41708668&plc=&pgrid=99876173906&ptaid=aud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_content=grUkFnyk%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c431439737978%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cproduct%7c41708668%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c99876173906%7cptaid%7caud-376656233455%3apla-897035582587%7c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw6G6p7em7AIVS73ACh2ZegkWEAQYBCABEgJQTPD_BwE#idiq=41708668&edition=2169589']used copy of Spycatcher for $4[/URL].[/QUOTE]
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