Buster I am certainly NOT suggesting anything about spying.
What AN LAME did was raise a name that rang a few bells in the back of my head. I then remembered another name from the same era that followed roughly the route noted in my post. That name would have recent inside info on any strengths/weakness' and the 'personalities' of the organisation being discussed here.
Nothing sinister inferred, just an observation from a 'outsider'
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