The book author/character Q referenced, John Le Carre's George Smiley, referred to British intelligence as the Circus in his novels.  George Smiley OBE[1] is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus," the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War, The Secret Pilgrim and A Legacy of Spies.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smiley  Very odd...just did a search on Edward Jay Gould, in relation to Operation Safehaven, "a secret plan in which funds were sent to Switzerland to organize support for the Nazi movement after the war. As it became clear that Germany would lose, the Nazis attempted to organize leading businessmen to provide funds to revive the party after the war." and found out his picture hangs in the Circus Hall of Fame in Sarasota Florida, I have a jpeg but computer isn't allowing paste to work at the moment. @srayzie https://i.imgflip.com/25y4d0.jpg  here it is