Bill’s Comments (group member since Oct 03, 2021)

Bill’s comments from the The Academy of Espionage group.

Are you a faithful or a traitor? That might explain your dilemma. Best do something totally different ...

... so if you like reading about real spies and liked The Traitors you'll love reading a psychological roller coaster about a real secret agent running in the fields and if you think the likes of Ian Fleming or any of the Cambridge Five lived exciting lives think again! In an article published last week it was revealed that the spy Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ aka Edward Burlington) who was unceremoniously refused an Oxford University scholarship survived 50+ known near death experiences including over two dozen "attempted murders for want of a better expression".

You can find the article dated 7 August 2023 in the News Section of TheBurlingtonFiles website (which is refreshingly advert free). The reason he survived may well have been down to his being protected by Pemberton’s People in MI6 as explained in another fascinating article dated 31 October 2022. It was for real. It is mind-boggling as is that website which is as beguiling as an espionage museum in its own right. No wonder Bill Fairclough’s first novel Beyond Enkription is mandatory reading in some countries’ espionage or intelligence induction programs. If you reckon you can track down real traitors try your luck with this thriller: odds on you don't clock the lot!

Beyond Enkription is an enthralling unadulterated factual thriller and a super read as long as you don’t expect John le Carré’s delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots. Nevertheless, it has been heralded by one US critic as “being up there with My Silent War by Kim Philby and No Other Choice by George Blake”. Why? It deviously dissects just how much agents are kept in the dark by their spy-masters and vice versa and it is now mandatory reading on some countries’ intelligence induction programs. See https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2... and https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2....