Spooky Warnings
FOR ANYONE who just can’t wait for the release of the new James Bond movie next year, New Zealand’s very own spy boss recently provided a real-life whiff of drama and mystery from the intelligence world.
In case you missed it at the time, here’s a movie trailer-style precis, though you’ll need to imagine for yourself the narrator’s portentous baritone, and a suitably strident soundtrack:
Spymasters are worried...
About shadowy figures working for foreign states...
Right here. Now. Across the political sphere.
In the seat of our democracy, the alarm has been raised…
What are we going to do about it?
Okay, it might be lacking in exploding cars and villains with stainless-steel teeth, but the warning is chilling enough, isn’t it?
Especially when the figure
