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BarkellWH
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 RE: New Russian guitar supply outfit (in reply to estebanana)
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Why there cannot be a fellow more wary of the tricks of Cold War villainy than Agent Steed.
Quite. The Honorable John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed personified all that is best in the British character. Seconded to the Special Operations Executive by the British Army during the last half of the World War II, Steed was instrumental in setting up a network of agents behind enemy lines who assisted the Allies as they moved forward.
After the war the SOE was dissolved and Steed moved seamlessly into MI6, where he ran agents into Communist Albania, all of whom were caught and imprisoned or executed due to his treasonous MI6 colleague Kim Philby, who was working for the Soviets.
Steed was a colorful character, known for his impeccable bespoke, Saville Row, three-piece suits and his ever-present umbrella, which contained operational equipment known only to those familiar with the trade-craft. Would that we had such men amongst us today.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Aug. 14 2020 14:02:03
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BarkellWH
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RE: New Russian guitar supply outfit (in reply to estebanana)
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The name is Steed, John Steed.
You have posted one of the very few photos of John Steed, taken on one of his clandestine trips to Washington. Steed was concerned that the British MI6 officer Kim Philby was a Soviet double agent, feeding information to his handlers in Moscow and passing disinformation to the British Embassy and the CIA in Washington. It seems that the CIA's chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, had developed a strong friendship with Philby which may have had a homoerotic dimension. Steed tried to convince Angleton to be wary of Philby to no avail. Steed was proved right when Philby defected to Moscow, and later Angleton was fired for overzealous searches for a CIA mole. Later, Steed retired to a pastoral life in surrey, tending to his garden and writing his memoirs.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Aug. 15 2020 2:51:06
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BarkellWH
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Quite correct Old Bean. And whilst Steed stayed in DC he recounted in his memoirs that to relax and take a few well deserved hours of rest from the tense games of CIA cat and mouse he retired to the Jernigan Suites Bar in Adams Morgan.
Great Scott! By the Jernigan Suites you must mean the eponymous suites of Mr. Richard Jernigan, Esq., who occasionally graces this forum with his observations! The same Richard Jernigan who has for decades maintained a Suite at the Hotel Emperador in Madrid, cared for in his absence by his able valet Mr. Jose Izaguirre.
Things are beginning to add up. It wouldn't be surprising if Steed and Jernigan, together, were not only involved in implementing a series of Active Measures against the Soviets, but were good friends as well. Both have family lineages that include European royalty and nobility that go back centuries. It is known that Mr. Jernigan is among the last in the Plantegenet line, and it has long been rumored that Mr. Steed is a direct descendant of the Tudors. Imagine, the War of the Roses ending up over drinks in Adams Morgan!
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Aug. 15 2020 13:52:08
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