Thursday, January 15, 2009
Books The Secret Agent
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM
A Russian ex-KGB agent could soon be in control of London daily newspaper the Evening Standard.In Lebedev I find a double to Mr. Verloc, the spy who owns a sleazy shop in the London of Conrad's novel Secret Agent. It's not so much the profession of spying that unites them but how they understand or relate to the city of their work: Lebedev's London mirrors Verloc's.Billionaire businessman Alexander Lebedev is believed to have made an offer for a 76% share of the paper.
He has previously revealed that he used the paper to find out information when he was a young spy based in London.
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He used a newspaper to FIND OUT INFORMATION? Holy crap, the KGB was way more sophisticated than I thought!
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