More about 'pager night' and John Le Carré

At the end of September occurred what I am calling 'Pager night' - hundreds (if not thousands) of pagers exploded in the hands (pun intended) of Hizbolla operatives in Lebanon. As I wrote¹ at the time, If John Le Carré were still alive, I have no doubt that he would be having a field day with what has been happening between Israel and Lebanon over the past two weeks.

During the past few days, two ex-operatives of the Mossad were interviewed by American reporter Sally Stahl about this operation. One of them said the following “We create a pretend world. We are a global production company: We write the screenplay, we're the directors, we're the producers, we're the main actors. And the world is our stage."

Does the following sound similar? (from "The little drummer girl", chapter 6).

“Charlie, we are surely not claiming that this is usual drama,” Kurtz replied equably, and once more left the initiative with her.

“A part what in, anyway?” she said, still fighting the grin.

“Call it theatre.”

She remembered Joseph and the fun fading from his face, and his clipped reference to the theatre of the real. “So it’s a play then,” she said. “Why don’t you say so?”

“In a sense it is a play,” Kurtz agreed.

“Who writes it?”

“We handle the plot, Joseph does the dialogue. With a lot of help from you.”

 

It seems that the Mossad are familiar with the JlC cannon.

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