I've oft wonder what motivated the Cambridge Five. What is it that makes well educated, intelligent men so deluded. Can't be just political idealism or is it...?

Well, as I'm the only one here so far who actually knows I shall tell you - It was fun.

It was chic, rather like being queer was. It linked one to the bigger picture. It was a further bond with one's close, close friends and it was all the most naughty, exciting fun.

True, that.

Best -

They're all very interesting characters, there's always something fascinating about people who lead duplicitous lives, even more so when they're right at the very hub of things. Perhaps, we secretly admire the sheer audacity of it, perhaps, we crave the excitement that such a life must entail with the constant fear of being exposed. For me, what I like most though, is the delicious irony of it all. I mean, being made head of a department who's primary responsibility is to root out spies, when you're the main one. You'd have to have a heart of stone not too chuckle...

So they were morons, then. I take back what I said earlier.

Others, I'm sure, realized life was a void and they needed to fill it with something.

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