The episode had one other result, said Smiley. Since his San Francisco experience, Karla had never once touched illegal radio. He cut it right out of his handwriting. “Embassy links are a different matter. But in the field his agents aren’t allowed to go near it. And he still has Ann’s cigarette lighter.” “Yours,” Guillam corrected him. “Yes. Yes, mine. Of course. Tell me,” he continued, as the waiter took away his money, “was Tarr referring to anyone in particular when he made that unpleasant reference to Ann?” “I’m afraid he was. Yes.”
