In this podcast, accompanied by the snoring of Lily, a 16-year-old Jack Russell, Jane explores the early part of her father, Iain’s, life in the tax office in Buckie, in North East Scotland. The conversation charts the start of his career at Bletchley Park, and his first GCHQ posting, as a young married man to Cyprus, with a new baby (Jane).
The episode discusses how intelligence officers in the 1960s ‘listened’ to gather information with what is now considered very rudimentary technology. It also explores the geographic location of Cyprus, the Greek/Turkish Cypriot conflict, and what intelligence was gathered from this strategically important Mediterranean island.
04/13/20 • 50 min
The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast - Buckie, Bletchley and Cyprus
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Welcome to the spy who raised me podcast conversations between the daughter and her father. Yes, you've guessed it, he was a spy
Unknownon Jane Craigie and I'm here with my dad in Craigie in the early 1960s. Well, late 1950s, actually my dad, after a three year spell in the RF, and working in communications and intelligence gathering, he left the RF and joined the tax office in Bucky which is quite moved
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