[...] > > Did anyone ask if he was a Soviet mole? > I'm sure I'm not the only one who was thinking about it, but no - nobody asked. Personally I don't think he was a mole. He left the party in 1939 over the von Ribbentrop pact, had an honourable war record, and could never have been Minister of Defence if there had been any serious doubts about him (unless MI6 were playing a very risky game indeed).
Incidentally, at 93 he is almost unrecognisably different from the jolly silly billy of the 70s. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
