ENGLISH 3GF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mauritius National Football Team, Atomic Weapons Establishment, John Cairncross
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They were spying for russia and providing documents from the british. Secret service and nato to russian soviet union. This is a real life group during the time ian fleming was writing casino. Two of them (maclean and burgess) were warned (by kim philby) that they might be suspected as double agents and escaped to moscow. This caused paranoia in british secret services (being leaky) and russian spies. Bond goes through an emotional breakdown about being hospitalized. Flowers were feminine, affection and sympathy he is uncomfortable and doesn(cid:495)t like that vesper sends him flowers, she stops after they are given to. The personal rather than political restores the doubts and his faith in humanity. We need to recognize that she is caught between her love for bond and that her own fianc is being trapped and used as leverage other patients.