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Way off the beaten track and nestling high on the cliff tops
of the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England, is one of the strangest hotels I've
ever stayed in.
The building used to be
a Ministry of Defence underwater weapons facility that, back in the late 1950s,
was mysteriously infiltrated by Soviet spies, causing an international scandal. Known as 'The Portland Spy Ring', the core of the traitorous network was finally detected in 1961 and the five main perpetrators arrested by Police Special Branch in collaboration with the secret services.
