Being discreet....
.....wot Beagle sed.
About the same time as he was at Brawdy I was at St Mawgan. I and all my squadron mates watched in utter disbelief the documentary by Tom Mangold called "The Deep Cold War". It included shots of a Nimrod crew as they tracked a soviet nuc, inside the Ops room at Andoya where on the wall charts you could if you knew see the location of the sensors, and interviews with Mr SACLANT (one admiral Ike Kidd) who was very forthright.
We were not supposed to talk about any of this outside a windowless room in the middle of STM Ops block on pain of death, and as OC that little unit was a black belt in TaeKwonDo it would have been a tad painful. A Sqn Ldr lost his job for talking unguardedly.
And here it was all over the Beeb!! WTF over.
I was living in my own house then and of course all my neighbours were asking "Is that what you do when you go flying at all odd hours?"
"Er ,er, no comment"
It was a very strange time and I can only assume that it was opened up for propaganda purposes, or, because they already had a better system in place.
Who knows? Sure as shot I didn't.
The Ancient Mariner