Leamas knows that Control had known what would happen the entire time, had orchestrated all of it. "He wondered what would become of him. Control hadn't talked about that, only about the technique: Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult; drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert. Above all, they want to deduce. The ground's prepared, we did it long ago, little things, difficult clues. You're the last stage in the treasure hunt." (105-106)
Fiedler, Control had identified as their best bet: "Fiedler is the acolyte who one day will stab the high priest in the back. He's the only man who's a match for Mundt- and he hates his guts. Fiedler's a Jew, of course, and Mundt is quite the other thing." This is Leamas' job, to allow Fielder to come to the final conclusion that Mundt is indeed working for the English.
Leamas begins to grow to like Fiedler, and the two become "friends?" As much friends as someone can be with someone who is living a lie. Fiedler acknowledges Leamas as an extremely proud man. He also tells him that he will keep him to further deduce indefinitely.
Fiedler brought letters to Leamas to sign, Scandinavian bank account notes under the name Robert Lang. These were the accounts that Fiedler suspected the British intelligence of depositing large numbers of funds in for Mundt to pick up; coincidentally the dates of the deposit and withdrawal of funds and Mundt's visit to Scandinavia coincided.
Leamas continues to provide "just enough glitter amongst the chickenfeed" for Fiedler to latch on to. For example when talking about Mundt's visit to England: "I can tell you this now," Fiedler continued. "I nearly went there a few years back. I was going to replace Mundt on the Steel Mission- did you know he was once in London?" I knew," Leamas replied cryptically." (134) Leamas, without suggesting it himself, confirmed Fiedler's suspicions that the British Intelligence had met with Mundt at some point during Mund't visit.
Whenever Fiedler would voice his conclusions, Leamas intentionally adamanty denied any conclusion about Mundt he would come to.
The narrative then turns to Liz. She received a letter, which promotes her within the Party by a man called Ashe. She then is "selected" to be part of the Party in Berlin. She accepts, and is excited, though at first skeptical. She was questioned by Ashe, who is instructed by the Abteilung to bring her to East Berlin, as Mundt prepares to arrest Fiedler and Leamas for conspiracy.
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