In the late 1970s, Michael Bettaney, a fascist sympathizer who made the familiar British journey from Oxford to MI5, was pulled over. Drunk and out of sorts, he is reported to have told officers: “You can’t arrest me, I’m a spy.” Drunkenness and antisemitism made Bettaney especially qualified for the intelligence service. He rose within […]

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