He takes a deep breath, reminds himself that this is not self-evident to Tony.
"By giving Mundt our Berlin network, we kept him a credible operative. A lauded operative, with the continued faith of his government and greater power over Intelligence there. Otherwise, if we outstripped them too abruptly, it would be obvious what had happened. The key with a mole like that is to use them effectively while keeping their government thinking they're useful. Leamas didn't know Mundt was ours, didn't know we'd given Berlin to him. So, when we asked him to, he was happy to try to kill Mundt for us."
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He takes a deep breath, reminds himself that this is not self-evident to Tony.
"By giving Mundt our Berlin network, we kept him a credible operative. A lauded operative, with the continued faith of his government and greater power over Intelligence there. Otherwise, if we outstripped them too abruptly, it would be obvious what had happened. The key with a mole like that is to use them effectively while keeping their government thinking they're useful. Leamas didn't know Mundt was ours, didn't know we'd given Berlin to him. So, when we asked him to, he was happy to try to kill Mundt for us."