Britain: Take Her Along

Russia's secret-police agency, the KGB, is on a constant lookout for potentially useful Western visitors—and not above using sex to provide evidence for blackmail. With an increasing number of businessmen visiting Russia and other Communist countries, the British government has taken public account of this fact. In a pamphlet issued by the Board of Trade, it offers Britons the delicate warning that "a liaison between a visitor and a local girl will not long remain unknown to the local intelligence service. The girl may be acting for that service from the outset."

If any Britons doubted that understatement, they had...

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