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Kathryn talks with Wellington writer and documentary maker John Daniell who tells the story of New Zealand's SIS and the UK's MI6 working together in the 1980s to break into the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Wellington to steal the Warsaw Pact codes. The codes would have allowed the Five Eyes partners to break the encrypted communications of the communist-aligned countries. The raid broke the Vienna Convention, which says embassies are inviolable and should never be entered by the host country without permission. John Daniell's mother was a spy before he was born, and his step-father was an SIS officer. John and RNZ's Guyon Espiner have made the new podcast The Service.
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