Kester Eddy
Chap 35b - Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Hungary in the Cold War – Another Twist in the Tale
Researcher László Becz believes Gábor Rimner erred when he assumed that a carrier vehicle for Soviet Intercontinental Ballistic Missile...
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Kester Eddy
Until I found myself lifted off my feet and bundled into a BMW - it had been like any other Friday
Chapter 48 Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: Podmaniczky utca 27 and its trolley bus stop in more modern...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 47: Demobbed, Back into Civvy Street – and Straight into Hell's Hospital
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: A very early image of Szent Janos Hospital, Budapest XII. The...
Kester Eddy
More Army Life - A Cocktail of Missile Sites, Indolent Libyan Officers & Chillingly Cold Barracks
Tales of a Teenage Spy, Chapter 46 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: A long-range, Soviet-manufactured "Vega" SA-5B...
Kester Eddy
Military Exile in Nagykanizsa & Too Much Monkey Business
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 45. The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: a plaque celebrating the poet Sándor Weöres on the wall...
Kester Eddy
You're in the Army Now - Fun & Games as a Military 'Scribe' in the Dobó István Barracks, Újpest
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 44. The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: a motley squad on duty in the Dobó István Barracks (not...
Kester Eddy
I Switch back to Foreign Trade - and an Official Letter is Delivered as my 24th Birthday Approaches
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 43 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo; The Medimpex building on fashionable Vörösmarty tér. It...
Kester Eddy
My Short, Sweet Banking Career Leads to An Unexpected Intelligence Opportunity
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 42 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: It's still there today, although much modernised -...
Kester Eddy
OTP Hungarian Savings Bank & Me – My New Career Ends Almost As Soon as it Begins
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 41 Photo: Which Bank to Choose? You didn't have to ponder long or hard back in the communist era as to...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 40 - My Interior Ministry Connections Pay off in Unexpected Ways
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner ​As I related earlier [Chapter 31: BM – Letters of Fear and Dread – Ed], I'd...
Kester Eddy
Chapter39 – Sleaze & Spooks - Hotel Budapest, 1975
Chapter39 – Sleaze & Spooks - Hotel Budapest, 1975 Dear Readers, I'm sorry for the delay for this next chapter. This blog owner is ......
Kester Eddy
Chapter 38 - Night-Shift Shenanigans – Hotel Budapest, 1975
I don't suppose anyone outside the so-called 'hospitality industry' was aware of the frolics, the fraud and the downright skulduggery...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 37a – The Secrets of Hotel Budapest, Floor Eight
​Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner It must have been in the winter of 1974-75 when, for various reasons I...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 37 - In the Making
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Dear Readers and fans of Gábor Rimner's merry tale of mayhem, Apologies,...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 36 – KISZ, Life and Communism - A Circus of Pretence
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: The way we were - Happy Campers. Gábor - that's him on the far right,...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 35a – Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Hungary in the Cold War - A Military Expert's Critique
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 35a – Soviet Nuclear Weapons in Hungary in the Cold War - A Military...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 35 - Washington Not Impressed
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 35 - Washington Not Impressed After my 'high' at the Soviet base and...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 34 – My Big Break - on a Soviet Military Base
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 34 – My Big Break - on a Soviet Missile Base What with work, getting...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 33 – Weddings come into Fashion
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 33 – No Romantic Proposal, no Flowers, no Chocolates, no Getting on...
Kester Eddy
Chapter 32 – Market Research - And its Strange Head of Department
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Chapter 32 - Market Research - And its Strange Head of Department I think...
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