Kester EddyJul 223 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 214 minAll Right Then – Music in July 1970, UKUPDATES @ End of story For some reason, I have strong memories of that July, half a century ago. I had just finished my first year at uni...
Kester EddyJul 204 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 195 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 191 minCoronavirus infections in Hungary creeping up - 40 reported this weekendUPDATED Monday, 20/07 - See below The absolute numbers in Hungary remain thankfully low, and the envy of many national health services in...
Kester EddyJul 186 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 173 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 164 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 154 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 143 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 133 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 115 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 103 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 94 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 82 minThree Outstanding Statesmen, .... one Brave Politician-Philosopher - If you've Missed it, don't FretI hope the authorities do not prosecute yours truly for publishing fake news. I was taking this lot at face value. It was not a conferenc...
Kester EddyJul 72 minGood News for Foreigners with Hungarian Residence Permits – it seemsUPDATED Wednesday, 08 July, 10.30 and again Wednesday, 15 July, 10.00 The Hungarian Police have an English language page http://www.poli...
Kester EddyJul 71 minThree Outstanding Statesmen, .... one Brave Politician-Philosopher - Don't Miss it! Hmmmm. This has just popped into my inbox. I wonder how they got my email address? Dear Friends, Colleagues, Partners, Dear Ladies and Ge...
Kester EddyJul 74 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 62 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 52 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 ...
