Kit Bennett

At some stage in that, they might have worked out what I was.

And I all the time was puzzled that they have to know, the KGB know my name, you know, surely they'd tell the GRU.

One of the reasons why they didn't want me too much with the KGB is that they felt once they started name-checking me and things, I'd come up in lights.

So I've got a photograph of me standing beside a Skyhawk all done up in flying gear and GC and everything.

And I showed it to Vladimir.

I said, yes, this is one from the old days.

This is all rubbish.

But, you know, he said, oh, what a great photo.

It's a good photo.

Can I have this photo?

I said, yeah, sure, you can.

Whatever, you know.

I thought, well, that'll be on my GRU file.

It's probably still there.

I thought it was funny, every time I look at that photo I think, oh yes, the neat thing about this is this is on my file in Moscow.

I went up a few times in the aeroplane and flew it.

And I flew the Strike Master a few times too with friends of mine that were flying.

But I went on attachment, a kind of an attachment to the squadron to make sure that I understood about strike operations.

And so I went out on lots of things, refuelling strikes up on the, you know, mock strikes and things like that.

So I did, I spent some time in the aeroplane.