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    Jan 12, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  1. Reel Critics: No James Bond nonsense in this low-tech spy thriller

    Author John le Carré knew the Cold War spy business from the inside. Under his real name, David Cornwell, he was a British spy betrayed by real-life KGB double-agent Kim Philby in 1963. Many elements of his novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" are built on the facts surrounding the historic defection of Philby to the Soviets.
    Author John le Carré knew the Cold War spy business from the inside. Under his real name, David Cornwell, he was a British spy betrayed by real-life KGB double-agent Kim Philby in 1963. Many elements of his novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" are built...

    Tags: Gary Oldman, A Separation (movie), John Hurt, Academy Awards, Espionage and Intelligence

    2. Jun 30, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  2. Movie Preview: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    The greatest spy novel of them all was once a classic British TV mini-series, and now has been remade as an all-star period piece set in the Cold War '60s. Colin Firth, Bill Nighy, John Hurt, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and as John Le Carre's canny...
    3. Mar 25, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6' by Gordon Thomas

    The experience of empire seems to leave a people with at least a taste, if not a particular talent, for conspiracy. Certainly, that's true of the Russians for whom the one place at which the history of czarism and Bolshevism most clearly conjoins is in...

    Tags: Personal Finance, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Death, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Donovan

    4. Dec 22, 2006 |Story| Zap2It

  4. 'The Good Shepherd'

    It's fitting that a drama trading in classified information would turn out to be such a cryptic bugger.
    Zap2It.com
    It's fitting that a drama trading in classified information would turn out to be such a cryptic bugger. "The Good Shepherd," Robert De Niro's second directorial effort (his first and far easier assignment was 1993's "A Bronx Tale"), takes a while to...

    Tags: FBI, Literature, Matt Damon, Fidel Castro, Gene Hackman

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