Is my father in law James Bond?

Is my father in law James Bond?

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numtumfutunch

4,731 posts

139 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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Yipper and his apocryphal black helicopters are surely circling this thread

And you aint seen me in here, OK?

ashleyman

6,987 posts

100 months

Thursday 23rd May 2019
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My father used to check the car before letting us out the house of a morning. I recently found out it was because of the IRA sticking bombs to organisation cars. Made for an interesting childhood.

PMacanGTS

467 posts

72 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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When next round at his, knock a glass from a table or counter top, and if he catches it before it hits the floor, then make no mistake, he’s 6. And if you’re banging his daughter, he’ll be so far up in your st, you should be able to taste him. Don’t be surprised if he knows your search patterns on xhamster, has access to your phones camera and microphone, and monitors how many hand shandy’s you commit to on a weekly basis.

Getting out of this relationship should be your priority, but you need to careful. A close friend of mine had a similar situation, where he was banging the head of mossad’s cleaner’s nephew. He eventually made it out after faking his own death on a trip to Machu Picchu. He now lives in Peru under an assumed name, and has had extensive plastic surgery. He used to remind me of a flabby Stephen Baldwin, but now looks like R Kelly.

glenrobbo

35,295 posts

151 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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PMacanGTS said:
When next round at his, knock a glass from a table or counter top, and if he catches it before it hits the floor, then make no mistake, he’s 6. And if you’re banging his daughter, he’ll be so far up in your st, you should be able to taste him. Don’t be surprised if he knows your search patterns on xhamster, has access to your phones camera and microphone, and monitors how many hand shandy’s you commit to on a weekly basis.

Getting out of this relationship should be your priority, but you need to careful. A close friend of mine had a similar situation, where he was banging the head of mossad’s cleaner’s nephew. He eventually made it out after faking his own death on a trip to Machu Picchu. He now lives in Peru under an assumed name, and has had extensive plastic surgery. He used to remind me of a flabby Stephen Baldwin, but now looks like R Kelly.
Oh, Well done for blowing his cover! rolleyes
You've just effectively signed his death warrant.

A fine friend you turned out to be. frown

( Unless it's R Kelly that cops it )


Halmyre

11,215 posts

140 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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So said:
overunder12g said:
So, only Irish Whiskey then ?
He drinks whisky too. Straight with one small ice cube.
Oops, no, he sounds more SPECTRE than MI6.

"Icshe in the whishky...I should have guesshed..."

Wills2

22,893 posts

176 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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98elise said:
Military intelligence is not like James Bond, and simple answers to questions about jobs are pretty routine, or were when I was in the forces. As an example I was a Weapons Engineer, but IIRC occupation on travel documents said "Government Service" or something equally nondescript.

People with intelligence jobs have formal titles that sound quite ordinary. The RN advertise intelligence roles on their website, but you wouldn't know it from the job title.

Mi5 seem to be a bit more open, "Spying for you"

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers



Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

262 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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I remember seeing a recruitment ad years ago for the Foreign office research dept that sounded very much like intelligence roles, analysis rather than anything necessarily covert..

so called

9,090 posts

210 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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So said:
a malevolent but massively wealthy misfit with a scarred face and a cat.
Scarred face - yes
Own a cat - yes
Massively wealthy - frown

98elise

26,646 posts

162 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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Wills2 said:
98elise said:
Military intelligence is not like James Bond, and simple answers to questions about jobs are pretty routine, or were when I was in the forces. As an example I was a Weapons Engineer, but IIRC occupation on travel documents said "Government Service" or something equally nondescript.

People with intelligence jobs have formal titles that sound quite ordinary. The RN advertise intelligence roles on their website, but you wouldn't know it from the job title.

Mi5 seem to be a bit more open, "Spying for you"

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers
The military ones look ordinary because they are just advertised alongside other military roles. Intelligence is just another job with a particular set of skills. A mate transferred to an intelligence role and he was learning russian, but was already navy engineer.

Matt Cup

3,163 posts

105 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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A story came up after reading this thread which I thought was appropriate.

Woman discovers her husband of 64 years led a secret life as a British spy.

Wills2

22,893 posts

176 months

Friday 24th May 2019
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98elise said:
Wills2 said:
98elise said:
Military intelligence is not like James Bond, and simple answers to questions about jobs are pretty routine, or were when I was in the forces. As an example I was a Weapons Engineer, but IIRC occupation on travel documents said "Government Service" or something equally nondescript.

People with intelligence jobs have formal titles that sound quite ordinary. The RN advertise intelligence roles on their website, but you wouldn't know it from the job title.

Mi5 seem to be a bit more open, "Spying for you"

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/careers
The military ones look ordinary because they are just advertised alongside other military roles. Intelligence is just another job with a particular set of skills. A mate transferred to an intelligence role and he was learning russian, but was already navy engineer.
Do they make you a nightmare for people like me? hehe

SpudLink

5,863 posts

193 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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Matt Cup said:
A story came up after reading this thread which I thought was appropriate.

Woman discovers her husband of 64 years led a secret life as a British spy.
That was quite interesting. I wonder if the current generation, raised in the world of social media, would ever be able to keep secrets in the same way.

ApOrbital

9,966 posts

119 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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Not a spy but found out last year one of my cousins husbands dad,who died last year was in the sas.

Cool story and all that.

pmanson

13,382 posts

254 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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ApOrbital said:
Not a spy but found out last year one of my cousins husbands dad,who died last year was in the sas.

Cool story and all that.
My Dad's dad was MI6 (he died in 77 from memory before I was born and he we only found out about it when my grandma passed in the 90s when we went to Bletchley Park to donate some furniture)

It was always believed he was merchant navy and that he then worked for Marconi. It wasnt uncommon for him to go to work as normal and then not come home for 18 months.

We do have a copy of a diary from when he was shot off the roof of a building (through both legs) in Israeli whilst installing a radio and was nursed back to health.

red_slr

17,270 posts

190 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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Matt Cup said:
A story came up after reading this thread which I thought was appropriate.

Woman discovers her husband of 64 years led a secret life as a British spy.
And that's how it really happens. The "real" ones who do the down and dirty never tell *anyone*. Wives, children etc. They certainly don't say they do government work on their visas whilst going on holiday. They work for a large company, back in the post war days maybe an obscure engineering company or aircraft company. They go to work, they drink in the pub. But their real work is usually hidden for ever.

eltax91

9,893 posts

207 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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red_slr said:
Matt Cup said:
A story came up after reading this thread which I thought was appropriate.

Woman discovers her husband of 64 years led a secret life as a British spy.
And that's how it really happens. The "real" ones who do the down and dirty never tell *anyone*. Wives, children etc. They certainly don't say they do government work on their visas whilst going on holiday. They work for a large company, back in the post war days maybe an obscure engineering company or aircraft company. They go to work, they drink in the pub. But their real work is usually hidden for ever.
Surely it’s not very likely that they’ll get away without telling their family at least something. How else do you explain away being away for weeks/ months at little to no notice?!

red_slr

17,270 posts

190 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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For those who travel away a lot they might work for an overseas company or maybe they are working for a mining company or whatever. A lot of these jobs need travel.

Sometimes all that is required is to live a normal life but gather information and pass that information on to handlers. Not everyone is doing wet work in the jungle for 6 months. In fact in modern times its very much the opposite. Just look at whats going on in the press at the moment with a certain telecoms company.


Edited by red_slr on Saturday 25th May 10:00

SpudLink

5,863 posts

193 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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red_slr said:
For those who travel away a lot they might work for an overseas company or maybe they are working for a mining company or whatever. A lot of these jobs need travel.
Sounds like Universal Exports.

red_slr

17,270 posts

190 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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I was thinking more of the Glomar Explorer but yes.

Scabutz

7,645 posts

81 months

Saturday 25th May 2019
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red_slr said:
Matt Cup said:
A story came up after reading this thread which I thought was appropriate.

Woman discovers her husband of 64 years led a secret life as a British spy.
And that's how it really happens. The "real" ones who do the down and dirty never tell *anyone*. Wives, children etc. They certainly don't say they do government work on their visas whilst going on holiday. They work for a large company, back in the post war days maybe an obscure engineering company or aircraft company. They go to work, they drink in the pub. But their real work is usually hidden for ever.
I went for a job interview with MI6 a few years ago. It was only for a software dev job. All the correspondence came from the foreign office. I was told not to tell anyone I was applying. I was then invited to a hotel where they did a presentation and assessments for lots of candidates. We were told when we started we would be given a cover story, apparently working in pensions at the foreign office was common as it was benign and boring enough to put anyone off from asking further. We were only supposed to disclose who we really worked for to our spouse. Guess if you are a spy proper you dont even tell them.

I already had DV clearance at the time as I was working for the police and did stuff for special branch. But this was a step beyond in terms of secrecy.

Never carried on with the application. It was a long and arduous process and they didn't tell you the job or salary till the end. I was offered a job at a law firm paying 12k more than I was on at the time and went for that.