Mediterranean Nights (2013)
“It was written before the war had really got going—and Dunkirk, and before I became a member of the Joint Planning Staff. I have, however, allowed the following paragraphs of this note, as it appeared in the original edition, to stand; because they indicate the conditions under which I wrote my first four Gregory Sallust secret service stories. My assumption that each Service had its own highly efficient Security Officers was, of course, correct. But I must still disappoint many of my readers b...y stating that, although I later had many dealings with such officers, I am not a member of the Secret Service.
Personally I greatly doubt if such a temporary transfer into one of the Services is ever carried out in practice. The officers of MI.6 or 16 or 26 or 64, or whichever it is that deals with such matters, must be perfectly capable of running their own show without calling in outside help. Therefore, should one of them chance to read this yarn I apologise here and now for inferring that his department ever had to confess defeat on such a comparatively simple issue.MoreLess
Personally I greatly doubt if such a temporary transfer into one of the Services is ever carried out in practice. The officers of MI.6 or 16 or 26 or 64, or whichever it is that deals with such matters, must be perfectly capable of running their own show without calling in outside help. Therefore, should one of them chance to read this yarn I apologise here and now for inferring that his department ever had to confess defeat on such a comparatively simple issue.MoreLess
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