EIGHT
It is often thought that the intelligence services were discreet. Well, clearly Jack Austin could never be discreet. In point of fact, he was so indiscreet, with his overtly proclaimed socialist views, nobody would comprehend he was, or had been, a bit of a brains trust in MI5, but he had been, or was. Maybe he still was, but now in his cunning guise as d**k, in the Ooh La Lovelies, DaDa Detective Agency.
It is also widely believed that the secret services are the tool of the establishment and therefore, by their very nature, they were thought to be an elite closed group. That they would select its members from similarly elite structures, institutions or even government, in order to carry out tasks not necessarily open, or even voted for by a blindly naïve electorate and generally,
