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| | George Smiley, Move Over |
 | | Yet establishing those facts is not so easy, because Gold was a liar, and not just in the sense of "a spy, by definition, lies." The well-embroidered and frequently told saga of Gold's relationship with his wife and children was not a necessary lie. |
 | | Later, when Gold is being interrogated by the FBI, Dillon writes, "Yes, he remembered a Jell-O box, with the torn halves that had to be matched, and the phrase, 'I come from----' but he could not for the life of him remember the name of the man he was supposed to come from. |
 | | Gold's account of his meeting with Greenglass is extremely peculiar, and one need not believe that Julius Rosenberg was innocent--or argue, as some do, that the records of Gold's hotel stay in Albuquerque were forged, or that Gold invented his relationship with Fuchs (who never definitively identified him as the courier)--to think so. |
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