I’m sorry that it has taken me nearly 18 months to respond to your last letter, but I have a valid reason... Put bluntly, I’ve been in prison! You may recall from my last letter that I had returned to London nearly two years previously under orders from leadership to report on the changing politics in the UK, as well as Western attitudes to their “war on terror” in general.
Obviously, it had to be highly confidential, but the fact that I had studied in London previously helped, as well as the fact that I did not have a record. As far as the British were concerned, I was a “clean” refugee, who already had a British university degree and could even afford to enrol on a postgraduate course, bringing in more university revenue.
I enrolled on that MA course in security and intelligence studies in London and was able to use my inside knowledge (very selectively, of course) to shine as an apparently well-informed student. I graduated with a distinction and then, funnily enough, was asked to join a private intelligence company advising energy corporations, banks and other transnationals on threat assessment, especially in the Middle East!
