lky was highly admired by u.k. and u.s. conservatives and ironically jap nationalists for his effectiveness and success in being a sextuple agent for the allies and japs interchangeably.
japs thought he was an intell asset as he was superb in piecing together truncated word and missing letter puzzles from radio intercepts of morse codes transmitted by allies. for sexample, “.._. .._ _._. _._ _.__ ___ .._ _.. . . .__. _.. . . .__.” would be deciphered by a malay morse operator as “fucky oudee pdeep” following the convention of 5-character code groups. it would mean garbage to the japs, but lky was able to space them out correctly and make sense of them with his word puzzle-solving and english skills. it would be transcribed by lky as “fuck you deep deep.”
allies thought of him as an intell asset too as he was sexchanging sitrep notes with british agents in place hiding deep in the jungles on cameron highlands while malaya was occupied by japs. by the end of the war, he was gainfully but steathily employed by the intell branch of the british. jap intell also aided the allies after the war in curtailing commie activities and incursions. the lines of foe and friend became blurred, and an orgy of various former enemy intell agencies coalesced into crab paste rojak. lky, being sextuple super agent with wartime sexperience for various agencies, became the go-to deep six nine guy to anchor sg and her strategic domain and location as the beacon of capitalism and allied presence. truly epic. and to outdo (and get outpaid) his sponsor and handler in london by 6.9 times, it’s beyond epic. it’s fucky oudee pdeep.
