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The above title is from a film one of my ENIGMA2000 operators shared with me. I viewed it on You Tube. The plot is the death of one miscreant and the levels to which HMG goes to for whitewashing the storyline. Enter an investigative journalist. One of the central characters is an ageing, passed over for promotion, hard drinking and heavy smoking alcoholic journo played by the now late actor Denholm Elliott. Tracked down into a pub the well oiled journo says to his colleague, 'Mine's a vodka and coke. You could call it detente in a glass.' Made me laugh, that. My Indian wife wondered why I was laughing and although I explained the jibe it didn't really bite.

Perhaps Cold War jokes aren't really funny much past East Germany!!

I am delighted to report that an autograph book containing the QSL cards of some VI's / Fulltime Operators who served at Station No 4 Gilnahirk during WWII has finally been handed over to the Department Historian at GCHQ. The exchange of cards was the work of Arthur Irwin (GI5TK) himself a VI and Fulltime operator. One example below.