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sheshe2

(83,754 posts)
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 09:30 PM Jan 2019

Karla's mole

On Tuesday, the heads of the FBI, CIA, and the director of national intelligence got up in front of Congress and pissed all over Donald Trump’s parade.

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In John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, spy-catcher George Smiley is pulled out of retirement to ferret out a double agent at the heart of British intelligence. The Soviet spymaster running this mole is known in the book only as “Karla”.

In the book, both Karla and the mole are experts at deceit. In our own real-life version, Karla is a failed KGB officer who nevertheless has been able to assume leadership over an entire nation, and the mole is a failed game show host who, with Karla’s help and the apathy of too many of our citizens, was installed in the Oval Office. It would be farcical were the real-world consequences not so serious.

Read More: https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/1/31/karlas-mole

Good read.

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Karla's mole (Original Post) sheshe2 Jan 2019 OP
Bill Haydon Turbineguy Jan 2019 #1
True, dat. sheshe2 Jan 2019 #4
Absolutely one of the best books I've ever read. charlyvi Jan 2019 #2
Ditto. Enoki33 Jan 2019 #3
TTSS based on the real life mole Kim Philby thucythucy Jan 2019 #5

thucythucy

(8,050 posts)
5. TTSS based on the real life mole Kim Philby
Thu Jan 31, 2019, 10:44 PM
Jan 2019

whom Le Carre knew when he worked with British Intelligence.

It IS a great read, and the Alex Guiness BBC production of decades back is wonderful TV.

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