![]() ![]() Porter had certainly not been a field agent during the eight years that he worked with the Service after graduating from college. ![]() ![]() The Service, when he was called upon, used him to occasionally scan items for nuances, write a foreign love letter or other missive, and, even rarer, act as a simultaneous translator at a conference. He spoke six languages fluently, another five with skill though his accent was off, and he could function adequately in another seven. When not called upon by the Intelligence community, he was a senior official at the UK Philological Institute where he plied his trade in linguistics. He knew that as a member of the British Secret Service, he was "like many other faceless agents attached to the secret services, each man with a specialty that might be needed no more than once a year, from safe-breaker to lip-reader, from acrobat to hypnotist. Appleton Porter is an agent for British Intelligence. ![]()
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