One of my biggest passions is Military Intelligence MI5, MI6 and KGB (true stories not your James Bond crap). I came across this little gem of a passage in a book called Inside Intelligence by Anthony Cavendish.
At first I thought it was funny, but the more I read it, the more I understood how true it is.
Let me know your thoughts.
In the bitter cold of the Russian winter, in a small village, some hundreds of kilometers east of Moscow, during a howling gale and darkness falling, a Russian peasant is wandering home to his meagre village.
Suddenly he stops and sees a small game bird on the ground nearly dead from the cold and privation. The peasant picks up the bird and warms it. The bird soon recovers and the peasant wonders what to do next.
At that moment a herd of cattle come by and one of them drops a large dollop right in front of him. Realizing that if he puts the bird in the steaming dollop, the bird will stay warm until morning and then be able to fly away, he does this and then goes home.
But a second peasant comes along after the first one has gone and hears the bird chirping hapily to itself in the steaming mess. This peasant seizes the bird, breaks its neck and takes it home for supper.
This old intelligence story has 3 morals:
1 Do not believe that everybody who drops you in the shit is your enemy.
2 Do not believe that everybody who gets you out the shit is your friend.
3 Whenever you are in the shit keep quiet about it.
But how do ever know who is who?!
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Honestly speaking I do not understand what are you trying to say. At first you talked about intelligence agency of British and Russia and later on you are talking about bird.
Please be clear …
I just mentioned the agencies to give you a little background on where the story come from so you could get a feel for it.
The reason why I thought I would post this little passage was that it is not only a “story” but also very useful in real life.
I think the bird is just representing how most spies would have felt working for the KGB or MI6 during the Cold War. Don’t trust anybody!!
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I understood your analogy perfectly…and laughed my hiney off. That was a great story!
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Thanks for the great story… the story really reflects what sometimes happen in my life… one steaming pile after another! (and I’m sure it clicks with other people’s too!)
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I’m not familiar with the boo but I think that it is worth reading because they come from a true hero.
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I can relate our everyday life to this story,just know that you are alone and only very few can be trusted.
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I think that’s why intelligent people have very few friends. How sad.
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Interesting, The spy game is so complicated. When the line between knowing who your friend are and the enemy becomes faint, sounds more like life in general.
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I agree upon your sentiment. That is why kids are the best because they haven’t acquired the skill to distinguish the difference and therefore they are a lot happier in general.
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so pathetic…in that case we really won’t know what lies beneath…
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Thanks for the story. The moral of the story can be applied in many ways.
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