Ep 565 - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, by John le Carré
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A Murder of Quality by Terry Gross
He leaves England at 16 because his dad had sent him to these boarding schools that he didn't like. He goes to Switzerland, starts learning German and does some spying for British intelligence there. And then he comes back and goes to school, starts in MI5,. And he's like spying on communist sympathizing leftist groups in the UK. Then he moves into MI6 where he starts doing actual foreign intelligence.
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