"Perhaps you are referring to the Wikipedia article about Kim Philby?" Yes, that's why I wrote it like that. The book by Carre has explicitely Kim Philby as h

"Perhaps you are referring to the Wikipedia article about Kim Philby?" Yes, that's why I wrote it like that. The book by Carre has explicitely Kim Philby as historic model. Yet in the books, the ploys are way more complex and the traitor is catched, because of advanced reasoning and schemes by Smiley, with Karla as the mastermind opponent. In reality, it was just dumb misstakes, after dumb misstakes. (and I also read the autobiography of Kim Philby btw.) And the details are not important, when the big facts are what they are. But you are free to keep your opinion of course.