2017-11-01 1 Spy School 201 Post Cold War Fiction Ian MacVicar, CD, DSS 30 Oct 2017 The Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia presents Homework for 30 October 2017 • Q1 – Who was Karla (who played her/him), why did he/she not speak, and what was his/her distinguishing personal habit? • Q2 – Who was “the last little doll” inside Bill Hayden? • Q3 – There are two spy agencies with the initials NISA. One is real, one is fictional with a Canadian connection. Who are they? • Q4 Why should spies never say rosewater in Iran even in fun? There is a Canadian connection to this one too.
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2017-11-01
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Spy School 201Post Cold War Fiction Ian MacVicar, CD, DSS
30 Oct 2017
The Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia
presents
Homework for 30 October 2017
• Q1 – Who was Karla (who played her/him), why did he/she not speak, and what was his/her distinguishing personal habit?
• Q2 – Who was “the last little doll” inside Bill Hayden?
• Q3 – There are two spy agencies with the initials NISA. One is real, one is fictional with a Canadian connection. Who are they?
• Q4 Why should spies never say rosewater in Iran even in fun? There is a Canadian connection to this one too.
2017-11-01
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Homework – Answers (Ian)• Q1 - “Karla” is a fictional character in several novels by John le Carré. A Soviet
Intelligence officer, he most often appears as a distant antagonist of “George Smiley.” His real name is never revealed; instead he takes his codename from that of the first network that he recruited. His most prominent appearances are in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974); The Honourable Schoolboy (1977); and Smiley's People (1979), three novels which were later published as a single omnibus edition entitled Smiley Versus Karla (1982) or The Quest for Karla in the US.
• In the BBC's television adaptations of both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People, “Karla” is played by British actor Patrick Stewart. Karla is only seen briefly in one scene in each production and does not speak.
• Most identifiable characteristic is his habit of chain smoking Camels.• References: • A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_(character)• B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Versus_Karla
Homework – Answers (Ian)• Q2 - Smiley uncovers mole - Bill Haydon, in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
(1974). • Haydon reveals that Karla has directed all of his activities, including
encouraging Haydon to cuckold Smiley. He tells him that Karla regarded Smiley as the person most likely to uncover Haydon and that the affair was calculated to cloud Smiley's judgement and cast any accusations he may make as the vengeance of a wronged husband.
• As he drives to break the news to his cheating spouse, Smiley reflects that Haydon's self-justifying "confession" was an inadequate explanation for becoming a traitor in the first place, and only Karla discerned the quality in Haydon that allowed him to be turned. In Smiley's words, only Karla saw "the last little doll inside Bill Haydon.“
Jason Matthews (b. 1952)http://www.simonandschuster.ca/authors/Jason-Matthews/406807038
• (2013). Red Sparrow. • Dominika Egorova, SVR, struggles against being a
sparrow targeting Nate Walsh, CIA mole.• Recipes (à la Len Deighton) end of each chapter.• “a primer in twenty-first century spying” • 2 March 2018. Release of movie Red Sparrow.
• (2015). Palace of Treason.• Double-agent Dominika survives an Iranian
assassination attempt and Putin’s affections.• resurrected the spy novel…to reflect the deadly serious
stakes of the new Cold War. On a scale of one to five stars, Palace of Treason is a six” (New York Journal of Books).
• (2018). The Kremlin’s Candidate. • February. Russian mole who may reveal Dominika.30 Oct 2017
2001-2010 New & Insider Authors (U.K.)• New authors:
• Stephen Leather. (2004). Hard Landing; • First book in the Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series.• Undercover cop versus transnational drug dealer.• Research in Belmarsh Prison, South London and Durham Prison.• Crime Writer’s Association nominated Hard Landing for the Ian Fleming
Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel
• William Boyd. (2006). Restless. • Young woman discovers her mother was a BSC spy during World War II.• Inner world of double agents.
• Insider Authors:• Alan Stripp. (2001). The Code Snatch (Bletchley Park cryptographer);
• 1944 Operation Paperchase' steal the Japanese military 2244 codebook about to be used throughout South-East Asia.
• Dame Stella Rimington. (DG MI5 1992-1996): Next slides
• Swede Stieg Larsson, (d. 2004), world's second best-selling author 2008 due to his Millennium series,
• (Anti)heroine /hacker Lisbeth Salander.
• Published posthumously:• (2005). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.• (2006). The Girl who Played with Fire.• (2008). The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
• David Langerkrantz. • (2015). The Girl in the Spider’s Web.• (2017). The Girl Who Takes and Eye for an Eye.
• (1985). The Red Fox. History of Russia/U.S.S.R.• “Bearing in mind developments in Putin’s Russia, I
think my look back was insightful; but that’s for the reader to judge.”
• 1992. China Lake. Overlap in ballistic missile development between Nazi concentration camp Dora and Cold War U.S. Naval Weapons Station.• “One vaguely thought the human race was
determined to destroy itself. After visiting the China Lake Research station, one feels quite certain of it…“
• The Berlin Assignment (2006). Post-wall Berlin and German reunification problems.
• Borderless Deceit (2007). Canadian role in intelligence war against weapons trafficking and money laundering.
• Common. Detailed psychological profiles.• “Literary” spy novels that make you think:
• The Berlin Assignment illustrates the social dynamics of post-wall Berlin.
• Borderless Deceit appeal to readers with an appetite for the intricacies of technical intelligence collection and analysis.
• Moral of both stories expressed by a Gorbachev quote in The Berlin Assignment. When asked his opinion of the Honecker regime just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev replies, “History punishes those who act too late.” (TBA p. 420).
• "Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now."
• (2017). A Legacy of Spies. (Retrospective through class action lawsuit by descendants of Cold War Operation WINDFALL casualties).• Smiley saga without the moral imperative of anti-Communism.
“What I was saying to myself is: This is a story now that will be viewed solely in humanistic terms, not in political terms. This is the cost of behaving like this. The cost of living like this.”
• 7 Sep 2017. "These stages that Trump is going through in the United States and the stirring of racial hatred ... these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of fascism and it’s contagious, it’s infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There’s an encouragement about."
• “I ran out of things to say,” AND after trip to Somalia as research for The Kill List, Forsyth said his wife told him: “You’re far too old, these places are bloody dangerous and you don’t run as avidly, as nimbly as you used to.”
• 2015 autobiography: The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue.
• Express, 27 Oct 2017 columnist: “There is constant chaos in this digitised world we live in”
• Erskine Childers (1903). The Riddle of the Sands.• John Buchan. (1915). The 39 Steps.• Ian Fleming. (1953). Casino Royale.• Jason Matthews. (2013). Red Sparrow.
• Motivation: MICE• Enticement: MICE + sex, drugs, Rock n’Roll. • Tradecraft (NYT article on Jason Matthews):
• “Dominika Egorova, a Russian agent secretly working for the United States, and Nate Nash, her C.I.A. lover and handler — depend mostly on traditional tradecraft. They spend a lot of time walking around and trying to avoid being followed.”
• Gadgets: Pistol disguised as lipstick.• Morals: “the stench of hypocrisy” (Len Deighton).• Speculative fiction as a window on the craft – and