This is true also of the British secret services, who infiltrated (and werre infiltrated by) Communists during the time of the common cause of the Second World War. The British Civil Services went out of its way to recruit new talent during the war, and Secretary to the Labour Ministry Beryl Power accumulated a central register of 80 000 'New Men' to ginger up the gerontocracy. Economist and statisticians especially were 'like Gold Dust'. Many of those recruited into the government ranks were leftists. (see Peter Hennessy and Sir Douglas Hague, 'How Adolf Hitler Reformed Whitehall', Strathclyde Papers on Government and Politics, 1985) -- Jim heartfield