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Spies and Lies

Television (Excerpts) – 2010

We are playing a game with very high stakes. The quicker we bring these subversives to the attention of the Prime Minister, the better...
– Major Kenneth Folkes (John Sessions) lectures Cutfield (Edwin Wright) about the importance of his plan
Over the following three months Ross reported that the plot included the demolition of key targets, and the kidnapping or assassination of [Peter] Fraser, [Robert] Semple and other members of cabinet, prior to an invasion.
– Writer Sherwood Young, in a Te Ara profile of Sydney Ross first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (2000)