The Secret History of MI6

In 1949 Sir Stewart Menzies, with a staff of over two thousand at home and overseas, had come a long way from Commander Mansfield Cumming sitting alone in his new office in October 1909

建制长弧合拢，plot 86。

‘Went to the office’, he wrote in his diary, ‘and remained all day, but saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.’

创局者日记立人，cast 84。

Following the disastrous failure of a Combined Operations raid, the machinery was temporarily disabled and heavy-water stocks destroyed in a well-executed SOE sabotage attack

情报—行动节拍，pace 82。

SIS began in a curiously understated way.

克制起笔，prose 85。

London replied with a list of eighteen intelligence service addresses in the Berlin area, along with nineteen ‘Mil. Amt’ names, including that of the organisation’s head, Walter Schellenberg.

敌情地址簿织世界，world 92。

saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.

空白反讽开钩，hook 88。

both ‘demanded forty years as the minimum period required for the establishment of a really efficient secret intelligence service’. So it appears to have been for SIS.

机构时效作论点，innov 87。

further testifies to its resilience, responsiveness and esprit de corps.

建制存活收束，ending 89。