Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. To her nonfictional catalogue of traitors, Dame Rebecca in her sixth novel has now added the imaginary figure of a double agent, plying his unscrupulous trade in fin de siècle Europe...
...heroes are dead. The only one left to save the galaxies from becoming weird Brave New Worlds like Alphaville is Secret Agent .003 from the Outerlands -- Lemmy Caution. Caution is a big, cool, scar-faced tough guy, who goes around telling Division Three Seductresses, "Listen, baby, I'm old enough to find my own broads. So get lost." He is the character American actor Eddie Constantine created on French television after Constantine flopped in the U.S. Now he's Jean-Luc Godard's hero in the French auteur's latest flick to hit the Brattle's screen, "Alphaville...
Implausible? Deane theorizes that Blake was actually a triple agent. After the Korean experience, he surmises, British intelligence asked Blake to "sell out" to the Russians, then plant false information (leavened with bits of sound but less valuable data) in hopes of misleading Moscow or gaining enemy information himself. According to Deane, Blake might well have consented to the 1961 trial to maintain the illusion that British authorities thought he was working for the Kremlin, when in fact he remained a loyal British public servant all the while. Thus Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs could have been engineered...
...Scrubs was a Soviet-planned breakout, abetted perhaps by London "scarperers" (specialists in prison escapes). Blake, they guessed, was already en route to Moscow-perhaps in a Russian trawler. Even Author John le Carré, whose own character Alec Leamas would have ultimately been more cynical, found the triple-agent theory "romantic nonsense...
...Compared with 25 years for Russian Agent Gordon Lonsdale, only 14 for Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs...