The Spy Next Door.

You have lived in the same street for some twenty years, your married and your wife does her bit for the local community, raising money for local causes, helping the elderly and the disabled. Your children are married and your grandchildren visit your house every Sunday for lunch. This could be the everyday family, loving, helpful and part of the community. But for twenty years the man has been a spy for the soviet union, his job at the university has given him access to information and to people who feel the same about the west.

So why would someone who has all the trappings of western success become a spy, well he did not just become a spy, he was a spy before he got all the trappings of success, the fact that he had got on with his job, kept his head down and gained promotion to a better more responsible position, means nothing to him, it is just a bonus to his cover.

But now he is top of tree in the spying world and in his career, his family is settled and completely unaware that he is a spy, so he wants out, his life is to perfect to give up, he has too much to lose, what would happen to his perfect life if all of sudden the FBI turned up on his door step, or if one of his spies decided to cash in on the information and turn him in.

These spies who live amongst us, our friends and possibly even our families or at least members of it, who sell state secrets or give them away as part of their own way of balancing the power between states, very rarely get caught because they are so well embedded into our society that we as ordinary people could not possibly ever think that they were spies, but we can always think of somebody who could be a spy and we would always be wrong, for a good spy remains undercover at all times and very seldom lets their true self come to the surface whatever the circumstances.

Now days these deep undercover spies do not exist, the end of the cold war also meant the end of the classic spy, however circumstances now dictate that the old spy schools and those who in the past worked as spies will be coming out of retirement and setting up to tackle the new enemy, that of Global Terrorism.

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