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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: General Vladimir and his group of Estonian nationalists are portrayed as no-hopers. In 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved and Estonia became an independent republic.
  • Ho Yay:
    • The letter that Bill Haydon wrote about Jim Prideaux to his Circus talent-spotter.
    • The Mole asks Smiley to pay off a girlfriend and a boyfriend from the "reptile fund".
    • In the second book, Luke and Jerry have such a close relationship that they're Mistaken for Gay.
  • It Was His Sled: It's quite difficult, especially if you read any later Le Carré novels first, not to know the identity of the Mole in Tinker, Tailor.... However, it doesn't matter as the identity of the Mole is not really a twist and the real meat of the story is Smiley's investigation and how the Mole was being used.

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