{"id":47875,"date":"2022-06-03T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47875"},"modified":"2022-06-02T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:37:31","slug":"qotd-snobbery-and-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/06\/03\/qotd-snobbery-and-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Snobbery and spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>During the Cold War, it was accepted that we would recruit spies and so would they.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford and Cambridge became notorious hunting grounds for the Soviet Union, as they sought out clever young lefties who they might convince to go full retard into communism and then spy for the Motherland.<\/p>\n<p>They had some success with some dapper young gentlemen called Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt and Cairncross \u2013 that&#8217;s a story for another day.<\/p>\n<p>It was notable that during the whole affair, British intelligence simply <em>refused to believe that one of their own had been corrupted<\/em>. They could not entertain such a notion, and so the Cambridge Five remained able to betray their country over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Noble, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/uncategorized\/hero-of-the-european-union\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hero Of The European Union&#8221;, <em>Continental Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2019-04-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War, it was accepted that we would recruit spies and so would they. Oxford and Cambridge became notorious hunting grounds for the Soviet Union, as they sought out clever young lefties who they might convince to go full retard into communism and then spy for the Motherland. They had some success with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,41,1119],"tags":[1420,108,476,907,433,862,764],"class_list":["post-47875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-quotations","category-russia","tag-classism","tag-coldwar","tag-espionage","tag-snobbery","tag-sovietunion","tag-treason","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-csb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74050,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875\/revisions\/74050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}