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    JohnDrake commented on the diary post All Aboard the Ship of Spies! or Keeping Bad Company by JohnDrake.

    2011-05-28 03:43:24View | Delete

    Larue I’m awfully sorry you got so offended by the portrayal of Goss and Hayden in this diary – perhaps you’d like to outline some of the factual inaccuracies contained therein. I’m sure they fully deserve their sterling reputations – but one thing’s for sure, they didn’t find Bin Laden on that boat, or anywhere [...]

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    JohnDrake commented on the diary post All Aboard the Ship of Spies! or Keeping Bad Company by JohnDrake.

    2011-05-27 16:05:03View | Delete

    Mzchief – both Hayden and Goss were in attendance as star guests and Tom Mangold made specific reference to how extraordinarily open this showed US Intelligence to be. It’s big news in the UK if a photograph is released showing what the current head of MI5 or MI6 looks like, let alone having them mix [...]

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    JohnDrake commented on the diary post All Aboard the Ship of Spies! or Keeping Bad Company by JohnDrake.

    2011-05-27 15:17:22View | Delete

    Thanks PeasantParty – I think the question I have in relation to this diary is: Who are our reporters working for? Us or the Government?

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    JohnDrake wrote a new diary post: All Aboard the Ship of Spies! or Keeping Bad Company

    2011-05-27 07:39:52View | Delete

    So where do retired spies go on holiday exactly? If you’re an ex-Director of the CIA the answer would appear to be SpyCruise® as a recently broadcast BBC radio documentary Ship of Spies revealed.

    Outward appearances suggest it’s just a regular cruise. But as the MS Eurodam sets sail from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, this vast ship is [...]