In the British intelligence organization (Circus) one of the top
brass (Haydon) got unhappy about the West and decided to work for
Russia. He was hired by Karla the mastermind of the Russian spy agency
(Moscow Center) to play a game of double cross from within the London
Circus. Karla cooked up a plot for Haydon to play to his colleagues in
the Circus, that they had an agent in Moscow (Merlin) gathering secret
information for them about Russia. A secret agent at the Russian Embassy
became the go-between between Merlin and Haydon (alias Gerald to the
Russians) under the “Witchcraft” plot by Karla. Haydon though uses this
ploy to hide the fact of his working for Karla. The old man in charge of
the Circus (Control) got suspicious particularly as he was left out of
the Witchcraft club. When this got to Karla he draws up another plan
which successfully removed Control through humiliation and death by
heart attack.
The
Circus was reorganized, with the top people who were loyal to Control
being shoved out. Then something unexpected happens and top detectives
who heard it began to smell a rat again. Secretly, they ask Smiley who
had been Control’s next in command to investigate the past and present
in order to discover who was secretly working for Karla. The complete
story comes out in the course of his investigation, which was successful
in picking out the mole Gerald as Haydon. Has a taste of
The Fourth Protocol in having a British citizen secretly working for Russia, but perhaps not as interesting as
The Little Drummer Girl.
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