He spent much of his career working in absolute secrecy, even as he fought to bring greater openness to the intelligence services. Now, whether on how he made his wife an unwitting cold war intelligence asset or he went about inviting prospective spies to be interviewed, David Bickford is illuminating at least some of the agencies’ work.
The former lawyer and legal director of MI5 and MI6 is due to release his second book, the fictional story of a Russian agent named Katya, and said his years of intelligence service experience informed his writing.
