Chapter after Twelve: Salmon Fishing In Norway“Nobody from GCHQ was swallowed by an alligator in Florida that I know of, Patrick. There was none cleverer than Dickie Blyth-Smith in the misinformation game. You're right. There was a Russian mole with access to sensitive sections in GCHQ who was further up the food chain than Prime, but it wasn't the Director General, Bernard Nicholls, who was as loyal as they came. Let me tell you a story involving the greatest man I ever came across in this business of ours.”
Fraser was in his element of storytelling of past victories of his greatest friend and long-term incumbent of the chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee being made a peerage on his retirement. According to Fraser, Dickie Blythe-Smith was to the intelligence service what Robinson C
