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Connie Sachs
Connie Sachs is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Sachs plays a key supporting role in the Karla Trilogy, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People".
Biography.
Sachs is an eccentric alcoholic with an incredible memory and intellect who works in the research department of the Circus. According to legend, Control met her while she was at university and was so impressed that he invented a job so as to hire her. Her personal
lieutenant, now head of the British Intelligence section in the Paris embassy
- Connie Sachs – retired former analyst and head of Moscow sphere of British intelligence; lives terminally ill in her Oxford "dacha"
- Hilary - Former Circus secretary and Connie Sachs' lover; suffered mental breakdown during Smiley's tenure as Chief
- Sir Oliver Lacon – Whitehall's Head Prefect to the intelligence service, aka Cabinet Office factotum
- Nigel Mostyn – young intelligence officer who took Vladimir's calls to the Circus
- Lauder Strickland