How much notice do you have to give? quality meds delivery Yet outside the area of signals intelligence, how much use was all this spying? For example, did Kim Philby seriously damage the Western alliance by betraying MI6 to the KGB or was he, as the late Hugh Trevor-Roper is quoted here as saying: “a classic example of a spy spying on spies”? How much of the cloak-and-dagger stuff was really dog-and-pony, a self-sustaining activity, like a covert corollary to Parkinson’s Law?