passes amidst all of this here in britain information is being gathered you talk about actually john scarlett the former head of m i six criticize well joe got over iraq gets a name check for managing these double agents which yes agents have been in the news over the script and they're absolutely with me watching the news of this criminal affair we're reminded about three months of very much i mean espionage britain britain had in one thousand nine hundred three had this very important double agent he was a senior figure in the k.g.b. who was reporting to british intelligence the m i six the germans john scott it was his mind. and it was really one of the very few sources the west had into what the soviet leadership with thinking certainly the k.g.b. leadership and they had started a program to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack from the west and i think we now understand this has been repeated several times if you ask an intelligence agency to look for evidence of something and they don't come back and say no nothing that can't come find it or they usually come back and say yes th