Kit Bennett

I enjoyed the company of these people.

They were intelligent people.

They were interesting people.

And all I had to do was, in an odd way, I kind of...

did passive recruitments of them too.

We became friends, we saw each other, went to functions, had lunch.

Dad invited me to a function and then I could latch on to a target and that's what I did.

So it takes time.

That's exactly right.

And it would be, normally it would be cocktail functions.

You know, diplomats love having those things and they'll wander around and eat finger food and drink, you know, have a glass of wine and things like that.

And so I, you know, I was in my element there and I would just move around until I could cozy up with someone I really wanted to be.

friends with, still remain friends with all the others so that, you know, my little smiling face was at lots of functions.

Like a lot of others who were genuine, I wasn't genuine but, you know, I was there at those functions and that's how it worked.

It's always a lot of luck involved, but, you know, sometimes the harder you work, the luckier you get.

And I worked hard at it.

And you get frustrated because you go to things and you just didn't meet the right people or you couldn't get to them.

And you just had to keep doing it until you did.

And then I started getting successful.

I got successful against a couple of Soviets and a couple of East Europeans.