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When readers last left Smiley, he had just ferreted out Soviet Spy Bill Haydon?a "mole" who for years had unobtrusively buried himself in the British Secret Service. Haydon was manifestly based on Kim Philby, a principal strategist of British intelligence who defected to Russia in 1963 after two decades of spying for the Soviets. Britain's real Secret Service had to be rebuilt after the Philby scandal; the fictional one is equally shattered and in need of repair in the post-Haydon...
...author can understand Kim Philby not only as a traitor but as "an extraordinary, disappointed man who wanted to get his own back on the institutions that maimed him." Le Carré regards Soviet persecution of dissenters as one of the greatest contemporary evils (it is significant, he notes, that the Soviet Union has produced great spies but ngreat spy novelists). Yet his name appeared on an ad favoring British sanctuary for American Army deserters. Clearly such an author has not only written about but lived a central paradox. Allen Dulles, onetime head of the CIA, acknowledged the paradox when...
...Kim described to the subcommittee how he let Park use $3 million in South Korean government funds in 1967 to help finance the fashionable George Town Club, which Park founded in 1966 as a way to get cozy with top U.S. officials. The posh club's 1976 roster of 400 members included six Supreme Court Justices; former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano and a score of Senators and Representatives. In all, federal investigators believe, Park may have spent as much as $2 million on parties at the club he had founded and gifts...
...broke U.S. law by not registering with the Justice Department, and the Congressmen may have broken the law by accepting campaign gifts from him. Nor is there any evidence of what the Congressmen did-if anything-in return for the money. Another problem is that Kim's testimony cannot be used in court because the five-year statute of limitations has run out on the incidents he witnessed. Last week Kim told the House subcommittee that Park "was definitely not an employee on the payroll of the KCIA" and had merely "offered to cooperate...
Hanna and Gallagher will probably be called before Eraser's subcommittee or the Ethics Committee to talk about the Park connection. One likely subject: Did they-as Kim claims-help persuade the Korean government to give Park a monopoly on importing rice to Korea, which paid him commissions of up to $6 million...