Charles Radford was not a master spy or a shadowy intelligence chief. He was a young US Navy yeoman with an unremarkable rank and extraordinary access. Yet during the early 1970s, Radford quietly became the conduit for one of the most serious internal spying scandals in American history. Working inside the National Security Council, he secretly copied highly classified documents linked to US foreign policy, including material handled by Henry Kissinger during the 1971 India–Pakistan war. The revelations, buried for decades and only recently brought to light, show how a junior sailor ended up at the centre of a Cold War power struggle between civilian leaders and the US military.
