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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I’ve read most of these in the ’70s and ’80s, starting with — well, when I was in high school, we read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and then as an adult, I read everything that he’s written just about.”
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…First one: John le Carré, overrated or underrated? I think John le Carré, all the credit he gets he deserves. He’s an incredible author, and just his understanding of the Cold War enabled him to write these wonderful novels. I’ve read most of these in the ’70s and ’80s, starting with — well, when I was in high school, we read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and then as an adult, I read everything that he’s written just about. Really, he doesn’t get enough credit, I think. John le Carré actually was an operative for British intelligence. He worked in Germany, and he was betrayed by Kim Philby, who was the mole in — if you read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, you know that there was a mole in the British foreign service. That actually happened, and John le Carré, his group was compromised by that, and they had to disappear out of Berlin and get back to England. Philby did a lot of damage to their network of espionage and intelligence people. Michael Jackson, not the man, but the music.…
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