Gordon Carrera

You don't have to layer in an intelligence angle to explain his desire to be a sort of fixer or social broker for his friends.

That was his life in existence.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

No, and we should say, we'll do more on this if events change and it makes sense to do so.

Next week, we will be starting a very exciting four-part series on someone, Gordon, who was actually

and very, we've confirmed, was a spy.

And that is Kim Philby.

We're doing four episodes on really the young Kim Philby, who I think we'd probably both agree is Britain's greatest traitor.

And longtime listeners to the podcast will, of course, know that Gordon Carrera has an inexplicable fondness for treason.

And so we'll get to experience that over the course of a couple of weeks as I systematically dismantle

his misconceptions and bizarre obsessions with traitors.

So we also have that to look forward to.

And if you want all of that at once, just to gorge on it, as soon as those four episodes drop,

do go and join the Declassified Club at TheRestIsClassified.com where you get early access.

You also get access to bonus content.

We've got some great bonus content coming as part of that Philby series, including a tape that Gordon Carrera dug out of the Stasi archives, I believe.

Isn't that right, Gordon?

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