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	George Smiley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Smiley is a fictional character created by John Le Carré.
		Smiley is an agent working for MI6 (often referred to as the Circus in the novels and films), the British overseas intelligence agency.
		It is reported that Le Carré based the character George Smiley on his one-time Lincoln College, Oxford professor, the former Rev.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Smiley (1133 words)

	Chapter 1 George Smiley: Liberal Sentiment and Skeptical Balance
		Smiley is overcome with guilt and remorse at having caused the death of his former friend.
		Smiley is introduced in the first of the three novels in the trilogy as having been in forced retirement for a year in consequence of his being on the losing side of a power play.
		Smiley’s musing about self-delusional aspects of love while he waits to ensnare the mole in a trap hints at a connection between the theme of loyalty and betrayal and the theme that there is frequently a discrepancy between appearances and reality.
	fas-polisci.rutgers.edu /~aronoff/chap1.html (9641 words)

	Wired News: James Bond Is a Fake
		The only problem with playing Smiley, of course, is that the role was forever defined by Alec Guinness, who was short but not especially podgy, and who happened to be one of the greatest actors of his time.
		Smiley, on the other hand, is forced to do more with less (I say "more" because what he ultimately achieves always falls within the plausible).
		Bond and Smiley are the representatives of opposing values even as both carry the fight to the Bolshies on behalf of British intelligence.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/1,70295-0.html (1048 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Winning Smiley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He is the greatest of spy novelists, and his supreme creation has been the spymaster George Smiley, whose skills, passions and uncertainties are at the heart of his finest novels.
		We are told that Smiley is "short, fat and of a quiet disposition" and that he "appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad." His face, we are often reminded, is that of a toad or perhaps a mole.
		But we also learn that he is brave and dedicated; one of his wartime superiors said Smiley possessed "the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin." Le Carre knew his man from the first and drew him in bold strokes that announced the birth of a hero.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33072-2004Nov7?language=printer (834 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality - Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When a former colleague of master spy George Smiley (Elliot) receives a letter from a schoolmaster's wife who is convinced her husband is trying to kill her, Smiley agrees to investigate.
		George Smiley (Denholm Elliott plays him so unassuming and gentle) and Ailsa Brimley (Glenda Jackson is a joy!) play former spy chums who crack a murder case in Carne, a classic English Boys School environment.
		Smiley doesn't talk about what he did during the war, but it is clear whatever he did involved subterfuge and killing.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-B00061QJ8A-locale-us.html (1229 words)

	Amazon.com: Smiley's People: Books: John le Carre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The conclusion to the famous Karla trilogy, in which George Smiley attempts to entrap his Soviet counterpart and settle old scores, is magnificent on audio.
		Smiley does not seem like a spy, but his methods, instincts and powers of observations are exceptional.
		Given all the murder and mayhem that Karla has visited both on the Circus in general and on George Smiley in particular, there is a number of levels of revenges operating here, and these LeCarre mines superbly in exploring the impulses rational and otherwise, that propel such urges.
	www.amazon.com /Smileys-People-John-Carre/dp/0671042769 (1675 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		John le Carré's George Smiley is the anti-Bond, a British spy who survives on his intellect and guile, rarely using violence to achieve his goals and never getting to sleep with gorgeous women.
		Smiley has secretly been called back to head this counter-espionage effort after having been put on the sidelines following the dismal failure of a British operation in Czechoslovakia and the death of his boss, code-named "Control," the No. 1 man in the service.
		Guinness' Smiley possesses a keen intellect, and his powers of deductive reasoning are nothing short of brilliant.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/dvd_video/tinker.html (687 words)

	Notes to Chapter 1
		Although Smiley is a "social misfit" and all le Carré’s heroes have "outsider status," the term pariah is too strong.
		Sauerburg (1984:51) suggests that Smiley’s survival "assures the reader that the missions are worth the sacrifices." In chapter 4, I demonstrate that le Carré is not as unambiguous as Sauerburg implies.
		Smiley mysteriously follows Leamas (8:79), pays the rent that Leamas owed after he has "defected" (11:115), and offers assistance to Liz (11:117-20), even giving her his calling card with his real name, address, and telephone number on it.
	fas-polisci.rutgers.edu /~aronoff/ch1notes.html (3439 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Smiley's People [1982]: Video: Alec Guinness,Eileen Atkins,Bernard Hepton,Michael Byrne,Barry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Smiley, a retired spymaster is once again called in to help the 'Circus' when a Soviet General, who was also a double agent, is killed.
		George is the essence of inscrutable as he peers at his world through owlish, heavy-rimmed spectacles.
		Guiness is magnificent as George Smiley and once again Beryl Reid nearly steals it with her cameo appearance as Connie.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Smileys-People-Alec-Guinness/dp/B00004CLCT (1900 words)

	Amazon.com: Call for the Dead: Books: John le Carre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Smiley's report cleared him of the allegations, so he was stunned to learn that Fennan had died the day after the interview, leaving a suicide note that claimed his career had been ruined.
		Because Smiley was the agent that conducted the interview, and because of the internal politics of the agency (one of le Carre's specialties), Smiley was chosen to conduct the post-suicide investigation and file a report.
		Smiley is embroiled quickly in intrigue, death, and the world of spy and counter-spy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802714439/pageturners0c (2052 words)

	Opinion: Saudi's 007 and George Smiley -- Middle East Times
		The man of hundreds of secret missions for Saudi royals, Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush, is also a member of the Saudi cabinet, a position he did not resign when he packed it in as ambassador to the United States.
		CIA headquarters is a five-minute drive from Bandar's McLean, Va., spread on the Potomac and George Tenet when he was director of Central Intelligence, would drop in on Bandar on Friday evenings for a chat and a drink and the latest gossip in high places.
		Soft-spoken, Turki was coached in the art of being a spy master by France's legendary spy chief Count Alexandre de Marenches, a fierce anti-Communist who plotted the demise of the Soviet empire with Ronald Reagan Dec. 16, 1980, four weeks before Reagan was sworn in as president.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20050725-102012-2105r (1152 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Smiley's People [1982]: DVD: Alec Guinness,Eileen Atkins,Bernard Hepton,Michael Byrne,Barry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Retired spymaster George Smiley (Alec Guinness) wanders around Europe and visits a succession of desperate or eccentric characters as he plays a game which finally leads to another confrontation with and a possible victory over his Moriarty-like Soviet arch-nemesis Karla (an expressive but silent Patrick Stewart).
		George Smiley is once again called out of innocent retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going back over some very old ground…
		Every actor seems to be right for their character and the portrayal of George Smiley in all his moods and feelings is superb.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Smileys-People-Alec-Guinness/dp/B0001Y9Z9W (1577 words)

	Cloggie :: Booklog :: Call for the Dead
		George Smiley, it appears, was one of the people recruited at Oxford before the war, when the British secret service was still endearingly amateur and could still afford to be so.
		After a routine security check by George Smiley, Samuel Fennan of the Foreign Office killed himself, though Smiley had already let him known that he was in the clear.
		Smiley quickly realises that Fennan's suicide is nothing of the sort and foul play is afoot.
	www.cloggie.org /books/call-for-the-dead.html (583 words)

	John Le Carré
		He published his first novel in 1961, A Call for the Dead, which introduced the character of George Smiley, a sad master spy.
		George Smiley is chief of the battered British Secret Service at a time when the betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network.
		Into a shadowy, violent and intricate world steeped in moral ambivalences steps George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known.
	www.bastulli.com /LeCarre/LeCarre.htm (1223 words)

	HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These long tramps had become a habit for him; with his newfound energy he could cover half the length of London and not notice it.
		John le Carré fans are intimately familiar with his fictional master spy George Smiley and the British secret intelligence agency (ironically called "The Circus") in which he serves.
		Many important events in Smiley's long career of clandestine work unfold in and around London.
	www.smileysfootsteps.com /index.html (217 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tinker,Tailr,Soldr,Spy: Books: John Le Carre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		(Smiley's boss had embarked on a small private war there, without authorization or reason, and had caused quite a disruption.) Smiley digs through mounds of files and old briefings by night, searching for the clues that will lead him to the mole.
		Apart from the remarkable revelation that is George Smiley, Le Carre renders another expose: spying is nothing like we think it is - in fact, it is desparately unglamorous, lonely, plodding work in which even the leading lights will end up drowning in bureacracy.
		The themes of betrayal, downfall, and the inescapable immorality of spying permeate this finely written book, while the challenge of discovering, with Smiley, who the mole is, captures the reader from the start.
	www.amazon.ca /Tinker-Tailr-Soldr-John-Carre/dp/0394492196 (1390 words)

	ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre \| The Archive \| A Murder of Quality
		In response to a plea for help from a former intelligence colleague, George Smiley, goes to Carne School in Dorset to investigate a sensational murder - a murder that has been forecast by the victim.
		Now in the beginning Smiley is on a sabbatical when he hears from an old colleague in intelligence, Miss Ailsa Brimley.
		Well, Brim, as she's called, tells Smiley that she'd just had a letter from a schoolmaster's wife saying that her husband was going to kill her.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/archive/125/125e.html (301 words)

	Smiley's People by John Le Carre Detailed Book Review
		Smiley's people is the best of Lecarre, the swansong of George Smiley, the brilliant master-spy who appears in many of Lecarre books.
		Smiley, the retired chief of Secret service is called back to solve a puzzling case.
		This information is used by George Smiley, an introverted, recently cuckholded (by a KGB mole, nonetheless, placed by KARLA) to flmail KARLA into defecting to the UK.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_5382.asp (565 words)

	Mystery Guide - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In this installment, an aging George Smiley is called out of "retirement" (i.e.
		The Smiley character is LeCarré's most famous, in part due to his portrayal by Alec Guinness in BBC adaptations (later shown in the US on PBS).
		He is a cautious, reserved, meticulous, spectacle-polishing sort of a man, but he wins out over flashier types through determination, and by his uncanny talent for sensing the real story behind the intrigues.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkLecarrSpy.html (483 words)

	The Hanging Of George Smiley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With feelings of profound sorrow and regret, I hereby invite you to attend and witness the private, decent and humane execution of a human being; name, George Smiley, crime, murder.
		The said George Smiley will be executed on Jan. 8, 1900, at 2 o’clock p.m.
		You are expected to deport yourself in a respectful manner, and any "flippant" or "unseemly" language or conduct on your part will not be allowed.
	www.azjournal.com /pages/areaguide/HolbSmiley.html (538 words)

	Smiley's People TV Show - Smiley's People Television Show - TV.com
		A member of one of George Smiley's old networks seems to have caught on to something big.
		When he turns up dead the Circus asks George to tie up the loose ends with minimal fuss.
		But George Smiley does not like loose ends.
	www.tv.com /smileys-people/show/8241/summary.html (134 words)

	Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Smiley was the creation of the master story teller John LeCarre.
		He was, on the surface, a colorless man, with a flamboyant wife, but he was also perhaps the best spy catcher the British had in their secret service, and a keeper of secrets.
		The series, which also includes Smiley's People, a sequel, became another of the jewels in Guinness's crown -- a portrayal that is still remembered vividly by those lucky enough to see it.
	www.murphsplace.com /guinness/smiley.html (142 words)

	TIME.com: More Le Carr -- May 29, 1964 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lurking among the chillier shadows of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a plump, worried man named George Smiley.
		Smiley is the British intelligence agent who sets up the betrayal of the hero's mistress so that another part of the plot can thicken.
		Turns out that Smiley figures in the first two capers by Le Carre (alias David John Moore Cornwell), which are now reissued in one volume as The Incongruous Spy.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,940474,00.html (831 words)

	Alec Guinness - A Man of Many Parts
		George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room.
		He is taken to the home of an advisor to the Prime Minister on intelligence matters where he finds evidence that one of the men in the senior ranks of his old agency is a Russian spy.
		Smiley is asked to find him, without official access to any of the files in the Circus or letting on that anyone is under suspicion.
	www.murphsplace.com /guinness/tinker.html (177 words)

	TIME.com: Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Nov. 18, 1985 -- Page 1
		Mention George Smiley to anyone who knows Le Carré's spy novels and his memory will instantly throw onto its screen the image of Alec Guinness.
		Smiley will not be fat and smudgy looking, as the novelist imagined him.
		If one thinks of George Patton, the image that appears on the mental screen is that of George C. Scott.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050560,00.html (764 words)

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	Saudis' James Bond and George Smiley - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bandar's successor as ambassador to the United States is Prince Turki bin Feisal, ambassador in London for the last three years and formerly head of Saudi intelligence for 24 years.
		If Bandar is Saudi Arabia's James Bond, Turki is the kingdom's George Smiley (of Le Carre fame).
		Soft-spoken, Turki was coached in the art of being a spy master by France's legendary spy chief Count Alexandre de Marenches, a fierce anti-communist who plotted the demise of the Soviet empire with Ronald Reagan Dec. 16, 1980, four weeks before Mr.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20050728-081358-7342r.htm (708 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Very Memorably Unruffled, Just Like a George Smiley - New York Times
		Kenneth Tynan, in his slim study of Alec Guinness, referred to the actor's penchant for ''iceberg characters, nine-tenths concealed.'' Big roles requiring broad strokes were not his strong suit.
		Widely regarded as one of the finest British actors of the 20th century, he was placed on a nearly equal footing with Gielgud, Olivier and Richardson while still in his 20's.
		Take away the career, and he was as invisible as Smiley himself, although much better dressed.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E6D6133FF93BA15754C0A9639C8B63 (615 words)

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