Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the
head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in
Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed
one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent -
a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of
them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of
Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a
story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole.
Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the
continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of
significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task
of finding him. Through the efforts of Peter Guillam, Smiley obtains
information that eventually leads him to Jim Prideaux, the agent at the
heart of the Hungary fiasco. He is then able to put together the pieces
of the puzzle, which lead him to the identity of the mole and the true
intent of Operation Witchcraft.+
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