- ander Poteyev, who fed the CIA secrets for over ten years while burrowing into Russian intelligence. In the choreography of these operations, as in Le Carré’s fiction, rival intelligence services ensnared and sacrificed recruits, as if playing a chess game, to advance their moles. Despite notable successes

r, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré helped establish the concept in the public imagination of a mole burrowing into a rival intelligence service. Le Carré’s now-classic mole, code-named Gerald by the KGB, managed in the novel to gain access to the inner sanctum of the British intelligence service MI6. Aid