Kester Eddy
Chapter 6 - Christmas Comes Early – and with a Plastic Tree
My father may have been trapped in a miserable position at the university in terms of ideologies and personalities, but he was nothing...
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Kester Eddy
Chapter 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...
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"The Night Ferry", France, 141Rs and table football - July, 1970
Introduction: When I was eight, in 1960, a kid down the street where I lived explained how he went to the local railway station and...
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Chapter 4 - So How did it come to this?
In those days we lived in Budapest's district XII, on what was then called Mártinovics Hill - nowadays that's Kiss Swáb Hegy, literally...
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Introduction
Hello, glad you're here. It's Monday, July 6 2020 now, and I've just been told off by one of my friends in Slovenia that my 'about'...
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Chapter 3 Pride Cometh ...
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner For a brief moment, I glimpsed my mother's face as she opened the door: next...
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Budapest Restricts Brits' Access by Stealth
(Please see later story "Good News for Foreigners with Hungarian Residence Permits – it seems" if you are reading this for practical...
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Chapter 2 – My first political skirmish – aged nine
“Gábor, tell me, who told you that Jewish, and communist and Russian people are bad? Where did you hear such things? Because I'd really...
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Chapter 1 – The happiest days of your life
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner It was spring, and the kind of day when, as a kid, you just long to be out in...
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A Kelenföld flat reveals its secrets - Preface 02
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner So began my relationship with Gábor Rimner, a polyglot Hungarian who at the...
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Tales of a Teenage Spy – The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner - Preface 01
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Preface by Kester Eddy One morning in late November, 1991, I had just...
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The Apparatchik in a Smoke-filled Room
A tribute to Sir John Birch, British Diplomat, who died last month in the UK. John was a good man if ever there was one, who put his...
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