Pete being 1/8th Jewish with some relations with Mossad complicates Petra's coverage of Israel's TKMS submarine buying a tad.
But then again Pete is 7/8s Adelaidian-Australian Protestant Irish, Scottish and English. This has made for some humorous questioning of some Catholic Irish Australians, who love a drink, and who fairly boasted about their past financing of the IRA through to the early 1980s.
Pre-1991 the Soviets attempted to disrupt British democracy by supporting the IRA with money and weapons via Middle East connections - sometimes with help from East German Stasi's foreign intelligence arm. The Soviets were happy that this contributed to the British Army diverting considerable resources to Northern Ireland security. Not to mention the Brits stuck diverting considerable MI5-Police resources against the IRA over the whole British Isles, up to the 1980s.
Overt IRA supporters also recieved invites, feeling, in their own words, like "token revolutionaries", from Soviet embassies in many countries to attend Soviet cocktail parties.
The deepest cover, yet most discerning IRA informants, reported that the Soviet/Russians were stultifyingly boring (and by culture) "unsmiling" hosts and that their Vodka "sucked" compared to Guinness and Irish Whiskey.