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Connie Sachs

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met her while she was at university and was so impressed that he invented a job so as to hire her. Her personal and professional life is devoted to the study of
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Sachs is an eccentric alcoholic with an incredible memory and intellect who works in the research department of the Circus. "A
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and forced into early retirement at the same time he is. From her vast memory, she provides him with important clues in
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and retires after their success against Karla, this time permanently. When Smiley visits her for the last time in
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Sachs was widely reputed (in outline at least) to be based on the legendary real-life
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré, Sceptre, 2011, p. 130
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The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré, Bantam, 1978, p. 58
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Sight & Sound magazine. October 2000. Archived from
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Index

John le Carré
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Honourable Schoolboy
Smiley's People
don
Palladian
Newbury
Control
Soviet intelligence
Karla
George Smiley
MI5
Milicent Bagot
double agent
Kim Philby
Communist
Beryl Reid
BBC Radio 4
Maggie Steed
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Kathy Burke
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
ISBN
0-394-49219-6
The Honourable Schoolboy
ISBN
978-0743457910
ISBN
0330262726
"Le Carré's 'Connie' dies aged 99"

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