Cherchez la Femme

摘要

Daphne Park was a senior officer of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) at a time when its personnel accepted a lifelong duty of confidentiality, as upheld in October 1988 by the House of Lords at the conclusion of the litigation over the publication of Peter Wright's Spy Catcher.~1 So how does a prospective biographer approach a taboo subject about which, in theory at least, nothing can be disclosed?