
Lurking around every corner, hiding under every street, listening on every phone line is a secret world of spooks, spies, saboteurs and subversives. Those on the wrong side of the War on Terror. The capital is full of them, or at least stories about them, as you can discover on the London’s Secret War walk on Saturday 1 May which leaves Charing Cross station Thistle Hotel at 2.30pm.
It will be led by a man who has read too many dodgy dossiers labelled “Top Secret! Confidential!” and watched too many films with soundtrack supplied by John Barry.
(Yup, it’s that Ed Glinert again. Blog Ed.)
Now you too can be as enlightened as he. You will be taken to the HQ of the government’s mysterious “Z” organisation; to the Nazis’ embassy on the Mall to hear how the German ambassador was assassinated on Hitler’s orders; to a site above the government’s not-so-secret Pindar bunker; to the Whitehall office where the government established the “Flying Saucer Working Party”; and to the early home of MI6 where the director-general used to stab his wooden leg with a pen-knife to test the nerve of potential recruits.
And even when you head of home your mission may not be over. If you take the Victoria Line you will be using a route built secretly by the government to link major strategic sites across the capital. Above the line stands the new home of MI6, Buckingham Place , the Queen’s war-time bunker and …
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