The time will come when some author will probe into the history of the British secret diplomacy. The sane part of the world’s population will be deeply impressed by the result.
Anyone who would like to get at least slightly acquainted with the theme would realize that the subject is exceptionally disgusting.
Great Britain always did its best to conceal the truth about its workings.
Whenever it failed to do so, there emerged giant poisonous toads grown in the test-tubes of the Foreign Office.
A minor example.
A representative Soviet delegation led by N.S Khruschev and N.A. Bulganin visited Great Britain on board the Ordzhonkidze battle-cruiser in 1956.
It was a successful diplomatic mission, and it became known only 50 years later that a British frogman tried to place a mine on the ship in Portsmouth bay in order to detonate it when the cruiser would be in the open sea on the way back to the USSR.
The plan was thus to …