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Article: Watching an enemy within
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
- Author:
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Spy fiction used to explore the murky no man's land between rival
superpowers, but now the threat to freedom lurks far closer to home.
Henry Porter explains why he writes about the surveillance state
In the final pages of John Le Carre's Smiley's People, we are
privy to George Smiley's thoughts as he watches Karla, the Head of
the Thirteenth Directorate of Soviet Intelligence, cross a
footbridge in Berlin to defect to the West. Smiley "looked across
the river into the darkness again, an unholy vertigo seized him as
the very evil he had fought against seemed to reach out and possess
him and claim him despite the striving, calling him a traitor also:
mocking him yet at the same time ...
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