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> he summer I finished writing my dissertation, the C.I.A. tried to recruit me—as a spy.

I visited a friend and spotted a significant fraction of the le Carré novels on the top of his bookshelf. He seemed to know more about this than a regular interested reader about recruiting. I asked if he had been recruited, and he answered "If you have a lot of languages, you will get a phone call." He was deep into Bengal and several other Indian languages.



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