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...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carre...
Terrific stuff, and The New Yorker brass reacted with the moaning outrage of water buffalos stabbed from behind. They called Wolfe an idiot. He was a lightweight, they were the venerable custodians of an institution. They wouldn't tinker with their magazine, regardless of such attacks, and in the ten years since his piece, the stodgy complacency has remained unchanged. It is splashed all over the anniversary issue. So happy 50th, New Yorker. R.I.P...
...detente that they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided...
...moves he may have to make to block their shots. Then after half a dozen or so beers, he retires for eight hours of sleep. On the day of the game, he enjoys a steak for lunch and then returns to sleep. He likes the family German shepherd Tinker Bell to nap with...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...