Life and Death in the KGB, with The Rest is Classified’s Gordon Corera (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. In this episode we return for part two of our recent live event with co-host of the wrestler's classified and former security correspondent for BBC News, Gordon Carrera. Carrera joined us recently at Conway Hall to discuss life and death in the KGB. with Sean Walker, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Guardian.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode to catch up. Well now let's return to the conversation live at Conway Hall in London. The last question about uh about how they deal with Metrokin, so I mean there's this interesting moment where they get him to London and they realize the value of what he's bringing But they realize they've got a bit of a problem paying him. Oh yeah.
So what happens then? Well, because the the Brits are like, great, we'll get him out, we'll get the files. And then, and this is very redolent of today, uh, they turn to the Treasury because they need money to resettle him, and this has to go through the Treasury. And the Treasury says, no. I mean, there's we haven't got any money.
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