The always eccentric and sometimes wannabee beatnik is known to have travelled on a regular basis to East Berlin during the final years of the soviet empire, when he was alleged to be at his most subversive.These trips only ceasing after the Berlin wall crumbled and a combination of perestroika and apathy took hold of the Soviet block.
Posing as a young Berliner, and adopting the standard beatnik dress code, "The Mosennel" would trawl the cafes and clubs of east Berlin searching for possible links to the KGB and the east German equivalent the Stasi. This troubled approach was at odds with the familiar stance of his extended family, which allegedly included the fanatical right winger and British Blackshirt "Oswald Mosley".
It was during one of these visits to East Berlin that he first developed his acute somnambulism that results in many casual observers believing that he has passed out due to over enthusiastic consumption of the weed, grape or malted barley.
Those who drank with "The Mosennel" during the hegemony of the Mitre public house, were aware of his duel life as an apprentice KGB enthusiast and fully understood that the standard passing out ritual was all a bluff to put the British counter intelligence services of his track.
The beatnik dress and laid back approach to life was also a useful rouse when approaching check point Charlie and the like, as the US and Russian boarder guards were thrown in to a false sense of security by his casual nonchalant look and countenance.
However, with the fall of the eastern empire, the need to continue his duel existence was extinguished and "The Mosenelle" retreated to a sedate life in suburbia, which continues to this day.
The Duck Flat Cap Society , having considered all the evidence, and indeed his former membership of the fabled "Mitres" Bogus Beer Belly Battalion, have accepted his membership, and the Counter Espionage sub committee have elected him as a permanent chairman of the same.
I always suspected it.!!
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