On the contrary, Alleline and the rest of the new leadership team at the Circus believe that they have a mole, code-named Merlin, working for them in Moscow Centre, the KGB headquarters, passing them secrets in an operation code-named Witchcraft. Control's obsession with the possibility of a Soviet mole at the Circus was not shared by others in the organization, who insist that any leaks and failures at the Circus were due to Control's incompetence. The Chief of the Circus, known only as Control, was disgraced by Testify and replaced by his rival Percy Alleline. The mission proved to be a trap, and Prideaux was captured and brutally tortured by the Soviets. Veteran British agent Jim Prideaux had been sent to meet a Czech general, having been told the general had information identifying a deep-cover Soviet spy planted in the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service-known as the Circus, because of its headquarters at Cambridge Circus in London. George Smiley, deputy to the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, has been forced into retirement in the wake of Operation Testify, a failed spy mission in Czechoslovakia. The series was followed by Smiley's People in 1982. The US version was re-edited from the original seven episodes to fit into six episodes. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979, and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 British seven-part spy drama by the BBC.
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