The events of which you are about to read, the latest of the strange happenings that befell me, started with a meeting in a country house north-west of London on the night of the 7th of January, 1984. I had made a phone call to a former friend and colleague of mine and he had agreed, after his initial surprise at receiving my call, to meet me. Knowing of the high position he held I had hinted of things of international importance...