Posted by Phil Tomaselli on July 23, 2002 at 20:01:40 from 212.211.110.28 user Phil_T.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur Ransome - A Spy, again posted by Duncan on July 23, 2002 at 14:24:45:
Thank you Duncan for your informed & interested comments.
Alas work & domesticity prevent me from replying to my critics immediately but I will say this. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck & associates with other ducks I call it a duck & anyone who provides the Foreign Office with a list of 250 "old regime" officers serving in the Red Army and strategic information on Soviet Railways in 1920 is about as close to a spy as you'll get, whatever their motives.
Full response soon and full refs asap I promise.
Phil T