“It doesn’t matter whether you hate the spies and believe they are corroding democracy, or if you think they are the noble guardians of the state. In both cases the assumption is that the secret agents know more than we do. But the strange fact is that often when you look into the history of spies what you discover is something very different. I want to tell some stories about MI5 – and the very strange people who worked there. They are often funny, sometimes rather sad – but always very odd. The stories also show how elites in Britain have used the aura of secret knowledge as a way of maintaining their power.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER
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