Originally Posted by
_Agrajag_
Fairly sure it was indeed a Senator. For clarity, and in the interests of honesty, my job was mostly going to parties, and there was never any danger involved at all, it was all pretty civilised, cultural exchange, etc.
The true hero is the R Sigs Sgt driving the Opel, to whom I will forever be indebted, as he agreed to covertly extract my wife-to-be as a favour. I'm also indebted to those that fiddled her passage to Berlin, all very unorthodox and done without the knowledge of anyone senior at the time (it did come out later back in the UK when we married, though) .
one final thread drift: very interesting story, in some other thread it would be of interest to hear of it in detail (jetblast maybe more proper location?).
I've seen cold war spy films with a lot lesser plot.
End of thread drift on my side.