Kester EddyJul 29, 20204 minChapter 24 – Blondes have More QuestionsTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Passports were a particular problem for the average citizen in the happy days...
Kester EddyJul 27, 20204 minChapter 23 – Fighting Fear - When your Stomach Feels in the Middle of your ThroatTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner I tried to ignore it among the fun and banter with Nicolai, but gnawing away ...
Kester EddyJul 26, 20205 minChapter 22 – Sofia: Beautiful Name – Grim RealityPhoto: The Grim Reality: This photo is a little unfair on Sofia. Indeed, winter is not normally the best way to illustrate the best aspe...
Kester EddyJul 24, 20204 minChapter 21 – Parental Shock – and the Journey Home BeginsTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner And so the time came for the 'big trip' - my return home – and the start of m...
Kester EddyJul 23, 20203 minChapter 20 – The ContractTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Then there was the contract. Very shortly before I left Khartoum, it must hav...
Kester EddyJul 22, 20203 minChapter 19 – Weaponry: Tribal Daggers, Supersonic MIGsTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner It was probably early May 1973, when Carol came back from her holidays. I bar...
Kester EddyJul 20, 20204 minChapter 18 - Murad, the Master Professional, and Rice Paper MessagesTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner I have to tell you about the actual messaging system then employed, that is, ...
Kester EddyJul 19, 20205 minChapter 17 – Answering Psychologists, Remembering Drop SitesTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner And meet we did. I spent hours and hours with Carol, just chatting, mostly ab...
Kester EddyJul 18, 20206 minChapter 16 – An Apprenticeship in SpycraftTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner After I'd agree to work for the Americans, Carol started asking me about the ...
Kester EddyJul 17, 20203 minChapter 15 - Carol Makes Her MoveTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Not long after our store-room encounter, I met Carol several times at the Ame...
Kester EddyJul 16, 20204 minChapter 14 – The Cultural Attaché, the Store Room, and an Awful lot of QuestionsTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner So, let's get back to the core story. After the row with my father, his railr...
Kester EddyJul 15, 20204 minChapter 13 – A Pleasure-Boat Trip Turns SourTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner The unhappy atmosphere at home was dramatically transformed by a freak, if fr...
Kester EddyJul 14, 20203 minChapter 12 – Troubles at HomeTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 12 – Troubles at Home I've got a little ahead of myself here. I'd bet...
Kester EddyJul 13, 20203 minChapter 11 - I don't like GermansTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 11 - I don't Like Germans One day, it was probably 1972, I was rummag...
Kester EddyJul 11, 20205 minChapter 10 – Proto-spy Experience 2 - Alexei's Big, Nice, Canary-Yellow PenTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner My second brush with the world of cloak and dagger - and it was real this tim...
Kester EddyJul 10, 20203 minChapter 9 - A Proto-spy Experience - Walking the Gangplank in Port SudanI have to tell you about two events in my life in Khartoum that were, well, both bizarre and extraordinary. I'm not superstitious, but yo...
Kester EddyJul 9, 20204 minChapter 8 - Nicolai, the Bulgarian, Moses, the Jew and ... I reach a turning point It was, I suppose, around 1968. I was growing up, and growing in confidence. I was aged 14, and I took up judo. We had a judo team at sch...
Kester EddyJul 7, 20204 minChapter 7 - We no longer whispered in our own homeSo here I was, an 11-year old schoolboy, going on 12, living in a middle-class suburb of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Home was a secur...
Kester EddyJul 6, 20202 minChapter 6 - Christmas Comes Early – and with a Plastic TreeMy father may have been trapped in a miserable position at the university in terms of ideologies and personalities, but he was nothing i...
Kester EddyJul 5, 20202 minChapter 5 – Tact and Tactless One day in 1964 or early 65, my father was unexpectedly called to the dean's office, to be greeted by the news that Prof Weichinger, his ...
