Kit Bennett

Who was signing?

I was being paid by the service and then nothing changed in that.

I got no more money or anything like that.

But everything that I did, you know, when I went overseas, I had this yellow buff envelope full of dead presidents and I had to account for every single penny of it.

the new chief of station, it kind of convinced me that, yeah, we're, you know, we're all on the same side.

This is what we're doing.

While it may not be strictly speaking a New Zealand issue, it is an issue for the five, you know, for the big five.

And that's what you're doing.

So I did that.

Yeah.

Actually, I'm concerned about just saying Manila because a friendly country, we just need to be careful.

The thing is that I was never working against the Philippines.

I was there working, anywhere I went, any of those countries in Asia, I was working solely against Soviets.

Undeclared, that's the thing.

The objective of what I was doing was to do an RIP, a recruitment in place.

So in other words, to get ideally a KGB officer to come and work for us.

And I don't mean defect, I mean to work in place for us.

And the Americans and the Brits highly skilled at that.

They would run agents back in Moscow.

You can imagine how difficult that is.