The Spy, his Wife, her Lovers and the Dead-Letter Drop

Told for the first time: how a spy ring in suburban Yorkshire was uncovered by a local police sergeant. But was the ringleader the RAF engineer - or his beautiful, unfaithful wife?

A Royal Air Force man with access to Top Secret files, his beautiful, unfaithful wife and a dead-letter drop in a South Yorkshire street: the intelligence services had suspicions about this case of Cold War espionage, but they needed proof.

It was 1970 and the Cold War was being played out on many fronts: the Vietnam War was at its height, the US and USS…