"Working Mundt. Keeping him at bay. He was trying to get as much out of us as possible."

Explaining, quietly.

"I had Control and Smiley step in to run Leamas. I ran Mundt, they orchestrated his disgrace, firing, nervous breakdown, and had him work a temp agency. We got him a job as an assistant at a library, where he met a young girl. A German immigrant. He fell in love with her. Honestly, we didn't need him to, it would have been enough that they'd worked together, but it certainly helped."