Chapter 1153 A Spy Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Writer Is Not a Good Spy
MI6 certainly played a crucial role during wartime, but in peacetime, it was relatively weak among the four major intelligence agencies. It was already being exploited by the KGB.
The most famous example is probably the famous 'Cambridge Five', which was the greatest espionage operation in the history of the KGB and the biggest and so far unwashed shame in the history of the British Intelligence Agency.
The so-called "Cambridge Five" were five high-ranking members of the British Secret Intelligence Service who came from aristocratic families. They were also members of the KGB, and they served the KGB wholeheartedly either for money or beauty, or out of their faith.
Among these five individuals was Kim Philby, the director of MI9. (MI9 was the British department that collected information on KGB espionage activities outside the UK, also known as the Soviet intelligence department.) In other words, Britain gave a senior KGB agent full responsibility for capturing Soviet spies, which is undoubtedly the greatest black humor in British espionage history.
We also have to mention Melita Norwood. This old lady was the longest-serving British spy during the Soviet era. She served the KGB for nearly 40 years from World War II to the Cold War. At that time, the Soviet Union developed nuclear bombs three years earlier than Britain, shocking Britain. It was Melita Norwood who stole the British nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
In fact, Norwood's methods were not very clever. As early as the 1930s, Mona Ende, one of MI5's earliest female agents, believed that Norwood was a spy and wanted to investigate her. However, her superiors directly rejected Mona Ende's suggestion, simply because "women can't be good spies." A few years later, Mona Ende was fired for being incompetent...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the KGB's spy list was widely leaked, revealing Norwood's identity. She was already in her eighties at the time. Because she had never received a penny from the KGB, her confessions were ineffective as evidence, ultimately forcing her to acquit her. She died at the age of 93, and her story was adapted into the novel and film "Red Joan."
MI6 was not much better. They had an "ace spy" named George Blake back then. This great man was Dutch. During World War II, he escaped from a German concentration camp and entered Britain, becoming a member of the British MI6. He obtained a large amount of top-secret intelligence for the British intelligence department, made significant contributions to Britain's victory in World War II, and became the backbone of MI6.
The reason why he became a KGB spy was related to Goryeo. During the Korean War, he went to Goryeo and saw the darkness and corruption of the Goryeo government at that time. Especially after seeing the atrocities committed by the American and Goryeo armies during the war, he developed a serious resistance in his heart. Later, he became a prisoner and was instigated by the Soviet Union to become a member of the KGB.
George Bullock was also not to be trifled with. He directly gave the Soviet Union a list of British spies planted in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, which led to the destruction of the British intelligence network in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. He was later sentenced to 42 years in prison for this incident.
The story of how George Brock was arrested was quite dramatic. Even though he gave the list to the former Soviet Union, MI6 did not suspect him and still trusted him very much.
Although Poland had not joined the Soviet Union at that time, it was a member of the Warsaw Pact. Michael Gronieski, then Deputy Minister of Intelligence of the Polish General Staff, was actually a CIA spy. He told the CIA that it was a KGB spy in the British MI6 who gave the list to the former Soviet Union. So MI6 began to conduct self-investigation, causing panic among the people. This investigation not only failed to find George Block, but instead let the latter know that there was a CIA hidden in the top of the Polish Intelligence Agency, so he conveyed this news to the KGB.
What happened next was quite interesting: the British and Americans investigated George Brock, while the Soviets investigated Grenieski. Since Grenieski was one of the leaders of the Polish intelligence department, the task fell on him.
His mental fortitude was clearly not as strong as Kim Philby of the Cambridge Five. Upon seeing the mission, his first thought was that he had been exposed, and he immediately fled to the United States. Although he did not know George Bloch's true identity, he did reveal two key pieces of information: the intelligence originated from the Berlin Station, and the sudden interruption of intelligence after 1960. These two key pieces of information led to George Bloch's arrest: George Bloch had previously worked at the Berlin Station and had been sent to Lebanon to study Arabic after 1960.
George Bullock was sentenced to 42 years in prison, the final British sentence of the year, and was imprisoned in Scrab Prison in London. However, after only five years, he escaped and fled to the Soviet Union, where he was warmly welcomed by the KGB and lived a happy life with his family.
Of course, MI6 is still quite awesome in movies and TV shows, such as "Austin Powers", "007 Series", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", etc. However, the reality is another story. Their style of recruiting employees is so Buddhist and harmonious that it is unbelievable.
Starting in 2006, MI6 began placing job ads in The Times, and in 2007 in The Guardian. Later, they even posted recruitment information on recruitment websites. Perhaps this didn't help, so they resorted to placing recruitment ads in movie theaters. In 2017, before a British film was shown, Tawau aired an MI6 recruitment ad featuring a woman going about her daily life. The ad's tagline read: "This woman isn't an MI6 agent, but her ability to act, observe, and execute gives her the qualities to be an agent."
But this didn't work, so the next year they simply placed job ads on TV, targeting women, Asians, and minority immigrants...
I feel that the UK’s inability to recruit good agents may be related to the fact that fewer people want to be writers nowadays: British agents have a peculiar tradition: a spy who doesn’t want to be a good writer is not a good spy.
Ian Fleming, the author of "007," was a British spy; Maugham, the British novelist and playwright, was a British spy; John le Carré, the author of "The Spy Who Came From the Cold" and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," was a British spy; even Graham Greene, the legendary writer who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 21 times, was a British spy...
This is a strange tradition.
"Wait, I remembered something!" At this time, Van der Beck's voice came from Xiao Peng's headphones: "I remember that today I saw their people moving some strange boxes. We haven't seen these boxes before."
Hahn was silent for a moment before saying, "Alright, this information is worth keeping an eye on. I'll contact my colleagues at the port and keep an eye on them! I'm telling you, this time, no matter what, we're going to kidnap him!"
Xiao Peng was a little confused. What the hell is this MI6? Why are they like robbers?
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