Always suspect your close personal aides

One of the plays we're going to see on our upcoming trip to NYC is Democracy, the subject of which -- the backstage intrigue in the administration of West German chancellor Willy Brandt's 1970s administration -- was "covered today in the New York Times. One of the central characters is a close aide to Brandt who turned out to be an East German agent. In my writing group, one of the members has a novel "Idi-A-Go-Go," which is about Idi Amin's exile in Saudi Arabia, from the point of view of his close personal aide. Curiously, in both "Democracy" and the novel, the aides are gay.