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Article: We're fighting Al Qaeda, not an imaginary Dr Evil.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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Byline: Martin Samuel
ONCE, I had an album of Monty Python performing at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. There was a sketch on side one called Secret Service about a man applying for a job as a spy. 'Can you keep a secret?' a John Cleese authority figure barks. 'Yes,' says the man. 'Right, you're in then,' decides his inquisitor, breezily.
Maybe the head of recruitment at MI6 has the same LP, too. Maybe it is where he gets his big ideas.
A questionnaire on the website of the Secret Intelligence Service -- I know what you're thinking but, wait, it gets better -- is intended to bring to the fore those best suited to a career with the agency. ...