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Scalphunters john le carre5/26/2023 ![]() Later in life, he contacted MI6 to ask if he was owed a pension for his years of service, but they claimed to have no record of him.īut there were two sets of novels on our bookshelves that caught the eye of 12-year-old me: some James Bond books, by Ian Fleming, and a few works by the great chronicler of the secret world of international intelligence, John Le Carré. He eventually left the Service for a job in industry, and finally became a math and science teacher. He couldn’t even tell his parents what he was really doing he barely knew himself. He traveled and played tennis, he worked little and was paid a lot, but it was boring and alienating. He would live on expenses somewhere like South Africa or Pakistan, and occasionally drive his Land Rover up a mountain to intercept encrypted Soviet radio signals, then send them back to the codebreakers in London. ![]() ![]() He worked for MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, during the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. ![]()
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