Edited by author 01-08-2009 02:13 AM
Another question to Blimpton and his reply

The Question

Stieber, who claimed to be half-English, seems to have been a slightly seedy old-fashioned sort of detective, and a bullshitter to boot. His unreliable memoirs were published in English as 'The Chancellor's Spy' Stieber's (alleged) crowning achievement was to have sneaked into Karl Marx's home in London and stolen the list of members of the Communist International. Were he alive today he would probably have been the man who launched the BNP membership list onto the internet. In later years most of the prostitutes in Berlin acted as his paid informers. But even Stieber would never have dared venture the claims now being made on his behalf by his worthy successor - the 21st century's leading secret agent - Michael von Schrimpton. Don't forget that spies don't tell the truth. So when Michael claims he is working against the evil Germans it actually means he is working for them.

Blimpton's Reply

The Germans aren't actually that evil, only their leaders and intelligence agencies. Many Germans are actually quite nice. Of course you know full well that I work for the home team, not the sausage-eaters across the water. You surely cannot be so naive as to swallow the autobiography of Bismarck's wily intelligence chief, cleared for publication by the Wilhelmstrasse, as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the turth? I am intrigued by your position - you accept that Stieber ran most of the prossies in Berlin and that he operated in London. Are you saying there were no prossies in London, or that he studiously avoided them? At what point in his glittering intelligence career (sadly for us) do you say he discovered that he could use prossies for blackmail? Which window do you day he used to sneak into Marx's house? Why would the head of Prussian Intelligence and Bismarck's spymaster need to break into the house of one of Prussia's most able and intelligent agents, living in a safe-house paid for by Stieber and to which he had the key?