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2 unusual facts about David Smiley


David Smiley

Some have suggested that John le Carré unconsciously took David Smiley's surname for that of his hero George Smiley.

After the war, he held the record for the most falls in one season on the Cresta Run in St Moritz; bizarrely, he represented Kenya (where he owned a farm) in the Commonwealth Winter Games of 1960.



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