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--Did you know him?- a priest asked me when I first visited my father-s impressive marble tomb in Bosnia.
I gave an honest answer - -No, I can-t say I really knew him at all-.
It was a view shared by the former head of the Secret Intelligence Service-s anti-Soviet operations. -I don-t suppose we-ll ever really know the truth about J.B. Wood?- he told me. But he thought I had a better chance of finding out than most.
After all, most of my family had at one time or another been with SIS, my mother one of only a handful of female agents to have operated behind the lines in post-war Berlin. I had grown up within the perimeter of a specialist SIS training camp, surrounded by some of the most senior - and colourful - characters in the Service-s history.
So began a personal, insider-s investigation into the lif
