![]() ![]() This time in the form of a lawsuit seeking answers and compensation by children of those who were pawns in Windfall. The story of Operation Windfall first appeared in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and it has reared its ugly head again. Specifically on Operation Windfall, set up at the height of the Cold War to protect an East German Stasi source. Judgement is also being made on that generation of spies, intelligence operations and decisions. The Cold War is back and so is George Smiley in John le Carré’s A Legacy of Spies.Īctually that last sentence is a bit misleading, Smiley is back, but for much of the book he is an omnipresent shadow rather than a physical presence and the Cold War is now being judged with a cold eye by a different generation. Lamplighters, pavement artists, scalphunters, the Circus, Control, drop boxes – life lived on the edge of a precipice while working in a world of seemingly infinite shades of grey. ![]()
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