PositiveThe Financial TimesThe Able Archer story is still relatively unknown, unlike the Cuban missile crisis. We can now make up for this thanks to Taylor Downing’s 1983 ... The whole story is replete with lessons ... If this was failure, it was one of policy, diplomacy and analysis, not just intelligence. In addition, as Downing makes clear, it was intelligence from within the KGB residency in London that finally opened the eyes of political leaders to the realities of thinking on the other side ... Quite right.