18-04-2010, 12:59 PM
I had a very specific reason for posing this question.
Last night, while watching the first episode of the re-make of The Prisoner and consequently needing something to do with my brain, it struck me that among the millions of words expended on the global financial melt-down, I couldn't remember a single piece asking "where were the spooks?"
Now, given the numerous connections between the intelligence world and the financial centres of London and New York - the list of SIS men alone who've gone into merchant banking would fill a directory - not to mention they're supposed to cover the water-front in terms of threats to national well-being, what, I wondered, had they been doing throughout the build-up to the collapse?
Any one seen anything which examines the role of Britain's sleeping secret policemen?
Last night, while watching the first episode of the re-make of The Prisoner and consequently needing something to do with my brain, it struck me that among the millions of words expended on the global financial melt-down, I couldn't remember a single piece asking "where were the spooks?"
Now, given the numerous connections between the intelligence world and the financial centres of London and New York - the list of SIS men alone who've gone into merchant banking would fill a directory - not to mention they're supposed to cover the water-front in terms of threats to national well-being, what, I wondered, had they been doing throughout the build-up to the collapse?
Any one seen anything which examines the role of Britain's sleeping secret policemen?