“Randall knew nothing of this of course and nor did Dickie want him to know. He swore Joe to secrecy, threatening him again, this time using his eldest son as leverage. Dickie held every card in the pack and Joe had no option but to submit. To sweeten the pill, he gave Joe some reasonably toxic intelligence to do with the Soviet fleet anchored in the Baltic Sea off Tallinn, in Estonia. It concerned the conduct of the captain of the Russian small missile ship, the Passat. This was a type of boat popular in the Soviet navy around that time because of its low radar profile carrying a hostile threat way above its size. It was a boat the West knew little about, but envied. Joe passed this intelligence on to his son when the two met at Joe"s home on the weekend following yours and Dickie"s depar
