What do intellectuals and spies have in common?
More than you think. I’ll be talking about the strange relationship between the two on the BBC 3’s Free Thinking program today at 5 pm ET (10 pm London)
More than you think. I’ll be talking about the strange relationship between the two on the BBC 3’s Free Thinking program today at 5 pm ET (10 pm London)
Summers was amazed when doing his documentary for BBC’s “Panorama” in the late 1970s that many of his interview subjects had never been spoken to before. “All of the media of that time, not least the New York Times, had completely failed to really quarry into the story. They simply had not done it,” he said. “They concentrated on the great tapestry of the assassination and the Kennedy era.”
BBC has uneaarthed amazing footage of Soviet spy Kim Philby talking to a group of Stasi agents in East Germany his espionage against the ruling classes of the West.