David McCloskey
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17,234 appearances
72 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
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David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he's been summoned back to MI6 headquarters and told that he is going to be promoted.
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And it's it's not just to any job, but it is to one of the most important jobs in the service.
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He is told he is going to be the MI6 head of station in Washington, liaising with the newly formed CIA.
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So he doesn't even um
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And we talked about that a little bit in the series we did a while back now on Klaus Fuchs.
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Who we'll come back to and how it is truly astonishing at just how penetrated the Western sort of military industrial establishment was by Soviet intelligence in this period.
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kind of astounding that he's able to meet in a cafe who
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With this Russian handler.
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Yeah.
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But I mean i in London, kind of obviously discreetly.
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that's pronounced Mingus.
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That's pretty much.
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These pronunciations.
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Philby is off.
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So he heads to New York and he goes, of course, by ship and and in classic, I guess, Philby style.
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He's boozing pretty heavily along the way.
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He enjoys a crate of champagne on his journeys that had been delivered to his cabin by Victor Rothschild, who is a a rich friend of his.
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And he's actually greeted in New York as an a by the FBI.
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Continues the uh the tradition inside the special relationship of offering the other party sherry when they arrive.
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