A Cold War Clown at the ‘Circus?’ By Aled Mawgan
The life and mysterious disappearance of Britain’s top naval spy, Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb, who vanished during a secret mission when Soviet warships visited Portsmouth harbour. 1950s Britain and the World is in a deep crisis, locked in a desperate Cold War battle with Soviet Russia. Communism is rife. Who can you trust? Who works for whom? The names of Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby were about to be exposed as traitors - loyal only to their Moscow counterparts. So who was really running British Intelligence? Who was pulling the strings of all the other puppets? And was Ian Fleming’s favourite spy really just a clown at ‘the Circus,’ or a rather cunning and secretive cog employed, and yet manipulated within the dangerous and often uncontrollable spinning wheels of espionage and counter espionage? Read this unique and intriguing story of one man’s surprisingly pivotal role, perhaps unknowingly working with most, if not all of the known Soviet traitors within British Intelligence during that incredible and memorable era to claim a highly prestigious ‘secret spy’ tag within Tinker Taylor's illustrious ‘Circus’ Empire. It was a life of semi-fantasy, extreme poverty or sheer luxury, operating out of dark, hidden and protected buildings in London, and manned by people and intelligence units that don’t really exist (or do they?) - to become the inspiration for Fleming’s rapidly developing new character James Bond.
The life and mysterious disappearance of Britain’s top naval spy, Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb, who vanished during a secret mission when Soviet warships visited Portsmouth harbour. 1950s Britain and the World is in a deep crisis, locked in a desperate Cold War battle with Soviet Russia. Communism is rife. Who can you trust? Who works for whom? The names of Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby were about to be exposed as traitors - loyal only to their Moscow counterparts. So who was really running British Intelligence? Who was pulling the strings of all the other puppets? And was Ian Fleming’s favourite spy really just a clown at ‘the Circus,’ or a rather cunning and secretive cog employed, and yet manipulated within the dangerous and often uncontrollable spinning wheels of espionage and counter espionage? Read this unique and intriguing story of one man’s surprisingly pivotal role, perhaps unknowingly working with most, if not all of the known Soviet traitors within British Intelligence during that incredible and memorable era to claim a highly prestigious ‘secret spy’ tag within Tinker Taylor's illustrious ‘Circus’ Empire. It was a life of semi-fantasy, extreme poverty or sheer luxury, operating out of dark, hidden and protected buildings in London, and manned by people and intelligence units that don’t really exist (or do they?) - to become the inspiration for Fleming’s rapidly developing new character James Bond.
