Literary criticism and counterintelligence

[Monte Davis]

Along the same lines from the Slow Learner intro (apologies to
paleo-Listers for oft-trodden ground). In discussion of the imperial /
colonial / espionage contexts of "Under the Rose":

"I had grown up reading a lot of spy fiction, novels of intrigue, notably
those of John Buchan.ohn Buchan...  E. Phillips Oppenheim, Helen MacInnes,
Geoffrey Household, and many others as well. The net effect was eventually
to build up in my uncritical brain a peculiar shadowy vision of the history
preceding the two world wars. Political decision-making and official
documents did not figure in this nearly as much as lurking, spying, false
identities, psychological games... Readers may also feel shorted because of
how, more than anyone, the masterful John le Carré has upped the ante for
the whole genre."


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
> wrote:

> Of course, Angleton served with the OSS in London during WW II. Dulles is
> mentioned in GR, Angleton I believe is not.
>
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