"You have to make them feel victorious for everything they glean. They prize it all the higher if they win it. They won proof of Mundt's treachery from Leamas, and Mundt swooped in to arrest Leamas and the men debriefing him."

He laces their fingers together tight.

"But the seeds had been sewn. The interrogations were stopped, Mundt was arrested, a hasty tribunal was set up. Leamas told them everything he'd been briefed to, and it looked for a moment like Mundt was certainly a traitor."