James Bond vs George Smiley and how successful are British spies

Britain has always had spies and I think we’ve spied rather well, says Gary Oldman on playing George Smiley.

James Bond in bed with KGB’s agent? End of his career!

Do you remember the movie The Spy Who Loved Me in which James Bond was directly working with KGB officer Anya Amasova. She wanted to kill him but they jumped into bed at the end.  In the reality it would be almost for sure very bad for his career and the Western and Eastern intelligence agencies cooperated rarely in the time of Cold War.