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Originally Posted by sniborp
(Maybe understanding the plot a bit better :/)
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It's perfectly simple. There's a german double agent high up in the british intelligence services, and there are numerous "lesser" agents, who are leaking state secrets. They make it seem like a valuable american general has been captured, and set up a team to go rescue him. They get Richard Burton (who the double agent thinks is a german double agent, but is actually a triple agent) to lead a team comprising all the men they suspected of being german spies, and Clint Eastwood, who is american and thus above suspicion as he's not a member of the british intelligence services. They infiltrate the castle of the eagles, and 3 of the men are revealed to be double agents; the others are killed. Richard Burton gets the 3 double agents in his team to write down the names and contact details of all their agents in Britain, by pretending that they are triple agents and he isn't. They then kill all the high ranking German officers in the place (after convincing a gestapo agent that the german army officers have got a plot to kill Hitler), and run out with explosions. They get rescued by a plane which has the two high ups from the start of the film on, and it is revealed that one of them is the high-up double agent. He then commits suicide.
There's some more to it than that, but that's a basic rundown.