"The problem with a turn like that is that it's too obvious. The information we got from him was too good, the moment he'd slipped and I'd pegged him too public. But for a source like him, we had to protect him, no matter what."

Breathing in and out, slowly.

"We had to give him some gold in return. We made a call, let him roll Berlin. Leamas, our chief of operations, lost all of his men."