Posted by Alan Hakim on July 25, 2002 at 17:16:47 from 212.137.166.99 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Arthur Ransome - A Spy, again posted by Phil Tomaselli on July 23, 2002 at 20:01:40:
If it looks like a duck,etc. This is a matter of semantics.
"Spy" implies someone working in secret obtaining information that his host wishes to conceal.
AR was passing information that he had obtained quite openly, and which the Bolsheviks probably wanted to be passed to the UK government. That's not spying.