[...]... raised my hand ‘‘Mr Dodge said you speak good English I understand Russian but have trouble expressing myself clearly in it, so if it’s all right with you, let’s speak English If you like you can speak Russian and I’ll answer in English.’’ He nodded and said in easy English, ‘‘No problem.’’ And indeed there was no problem of mutual understanding from that moment on I motioned him to a chair and offered... service Fulton Oursler, Jr., gave essential help, and I owe inestimable thanks to the late Maurice Najman The work is better for the thoughtful editing and comments of William Jennings Merci to Pierre de Villemarest for his valuable assist It buoyed me to have the interest and support of all those and of Henry Hurt, Owen Lock, Edmund Lazar, Alexander Rocca, and Andrew W Bagley Former adversaries in the East... Edward Jay Epstein, and Hayden Peake Thanks go to CIA’s Publications Review Board, which reviewed and cleared the substance of this book and prevented some indiscretions from slipping into its final form I am grateful to Jonathan Brent of Yale University Press It is heartening to have the support of one who knows so well the undersides of Soviet history To my competent editor at Yale, Jeffrey Schier,... Soviet and making eye contact, he shook his hand and said, ‘‘I’ll leave you now And the best of luck.’’ With this, Dodge spun on his heel and was down the stairs before I could thank him Dressed in a dark, Western-style suit and conservative tie befitting his status as a first secretary from the Soviet foreign ministry, Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko was in his mid-thirties, a bit under six feet tall, and strongly... Switzerland down into depths of deceit and treachery that have remained unlit to this day Acknowledgments Some of the events and facts dealt with in this book had been so painstakingly buried that I could not have dug them out without a lot of help, from West and East And the story could not have been told or brought to print without critical help and encouragement from friends William Hood used the wit and. .. damned letter, and that was never published in the press This guy really has the inside story.’’ George and I had debriefed many a source in our careers and knew the areas of primary national intelligence and counterintelligence interest Headquarters intervened only once, with a list of names and code names brought to Geneva by a Headquarters security officer We weren’t told their origin, and I learned... he himself had joined the KGB in 1952 and had recently received the ‘‘ten-year certificate’’ honoring that service ‘‘The bosses know me as a real operator,’’ he said proudly ‘‘I speak good English so I’m called on to handle a lot of things I’ve recruited ten Americans and Englishmen, and have gotten commendations.’’ He then named an American and a British tourist, and two American tourist agency directors... and I have been helped by some declassified documents and old notes To narrate the course of unfolding events I have had to reconstruct conversations that took place forty years ago I have no transcripts of them and of course I cannot remember every spoken word, but I have checked with those interlocutors who are still alive and am confident that I have accurately recorded the substance and context and. .. of disclosure or arrest and public trial and forced into cooperation, while others were treated leniently and eased into a sort of tacit dependency Through other agencies—in all of which the KGB kept its hand regarding personnel and contacts with foreigners—the KGB offered Westerners bait such as travel permits to restricted areas, rights to hunt rare game, choice interviews, and news scoops It offered... George and I, cautious to keep alert, made no effort to emulate I filled his glass and was turning to hand it to him when I heard him say to George, ‘‘We recruited a member of the British naval attaché’s office.’’ I sat down, picked up my pad, and leaned forward ‘‘Tell us what you can.’’ ‘‘Our guys recognized him as a homosexual and gave him a ‘friend’ who worked for us They threatened to expose him and .