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by Gordon Corera

iron legends, 27

  ISIS, 379

  Ivan the Terrible, 27

  James Bond (character), 31, 34, 61, 224

  Japan, 33, 73

  Jobs, Steve, 245–46

  Joint Intelligence Committee (UK), 350

  Kacchia-Patel, Amit, 206

  Kappes, Steve, 115

  Kapustin, Pavel (possible real name of Christopher Metsos), 182

  Karetnikov, Alexey, 211–12, 269

  Karla (character), 54

  Kennedy, John F., 357

  Kennedy School of Government (Harvard), 66–67

  KGB, 25, 33, 35, 52–57, 306, 330, 347. See also FSB

  Abel and, 309

  array of tricks used by, 171

  coup of 1991 and, 12–19

  dissolution and remaking of, 22–23, 49

  First Chief Directorate (see First Chief Directorate of KGB)

  handover of US embassy surveillance plans, 21–22

  Litvinenko in, 150

  moles of (see moles)

  Ninth Directorate, 157

  political warfare and, 354, 357

  Poteyev in, 70

  Putin in, 8, 34, 108, 303, 395

  “school for saboteurs” of, 70

  Second Chief Directorate, 51, 54

  Shebarshin as temporary head of, 17, 19

  spies for US in, 49, 51–52

  Western spies tracked by, 11, 12

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 92–93

  Kidd, Sean, 112, 113

  Kobaladze, Yuri, 308

  Kohler, Alan, 94–95, 97, 104, 218, 273, 296, 395

  konservy, 35

  Kouzminov, Alexander, 45

  Kovtun, Dmitry, 157, 158, 161–62

  Krakow, Robert, 284

  Krassilnikov, Rem, 54

  Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 12–13

  kurators, 26

  Kursk (submarine), 110

  Kuschenko, Ana. See Chapman, Anna

  Kutsik, Mikhail “Michael Zottoli,” 186–88, 194–96, 198–99, 230

  arrest of, 269–70

  employment of (Russia), 310

  employment of (US), 221–23

  politics of, 222

  refusal to make admissions, 281

  surveillance of, 222–23

  Vienna spy swap and, 296

  Kuznetsov, Nikolai, 33–34

  Lambert, Ian, 29

  Lambert, Laurie, 29

  laptops, 198, 200, 205–7, 249, 250, 256

  Latin American cover identities, 326

  Lavrov, Sergey, 71

  Lazaro, Juan, 86. See also Vasenkov, Mikhail A.

  Lazaro, Juan, Jr., 87, 270, 289, 315

  Lebedev, Alexander, 307

  le Carré, John, 19, 54, 56, 113, 242

  Lefortovo prison, 177

  legends, 47, 136, 137, 322, 397

  defined, 26

  iron, 27

  Leno, Jay, 3

  Libya, 338–39

  Line N officers, 72–73, 174, 193, 211, 325

  Line VKR, 72, 73

  Line X, 72

  Lithuania, 20–21

  “Little Green Men,” 344

  Litvinenko, Alexander, 65, 140, 280

  Blowing Up Russia, 155

  British citizenship of, 154

  flight to UK, 110

  murder of, 149–66, 305, 319, 368, 383, 384, 387, 388, 389

  Putin’s meeting with, 108–9, 408n

  Litvinenko, Marina, 149, 152, 163

  live doubles, 45

  Lonsdale, Gordon, 33. See also Molody, Konon

  Lubyanka, 17, 107

  Lucas, Edward, 316

  Lugovoi, Andrei, 152, 156–62

  Malone, Bertha, 380

  Mandia, Kevin, 346–48

  Marsical, Waldo, Jr., 86, 270, 282–83, 289

  Marsical, Waldo, Sr., 85–86

  Martin (Litvinenko contact), 152

  Max (Zaporozhsky code name), 57, 405n

  Maxim, 315

  McColl, Colin, 46

  McFaul, Mike, 240, 241, 340

  Medvedev, Dimitri, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243–44, 255, 260, 261, 277

  abstention from vote on Libyan intervention, 338–39

  meeting with Obama, 245–46, 302

  Mercader, Ramon, 318

  Merkel, Angela, 343

  Metsos, Christopher, 181–89, 191–93, 196, 216, 233, 237, 281

  arrest and escape of, 271–73

  expertise in disguise, 182

  FBI Wanted poster for, 413n

  identities of, 181–82, 183

  as a mentor, 188–89

  money delivered by, 184–88, 193

  psychological impact of loss of, 192–93

  surveillance of, 184–87

  suspected as double agent, 306

  MI5, 47, 68, 125, 135, 140, 141, 147, 172, 316, 327–29, 368, 386

  MI6, 2, 9, 47, 79–82, 137, 178, 276, 298, 389

  Alternative Futures and, 113

  Cherapanov and, 321–23

  CIA compared with, 34, 403n

  Litvinenko and, 152, 159–60

  Lugovoi and, 160–61

  Mitrokhin and, 46

  9/11 attacks and, 135

  Philby scandal (see Philby, Kim)

  in Russia, 11–12, 48–49, 170

  Skripal and, 176–77, 381, 383, 385

  Sutyagin and, 114

  version of illegals, 34–35

  Vienna spy swap and, 280

  Microsoft, 186, 212, 390, 413n

  Millennium Hotel, 156–57, 161–62

  Mills, Patricia. See Pereverzeva, Natalia

  Mitrokhin, Vasili, 45–47

  moles, 50, 51–59

  Molody, Konon “Gordon Lonsdale,” 33, 35, 63, 279

  money delivery, 184–88, 192–200

  Moonlight Maze, 346–47

  Morea Financial Services, 129

  Moscow Center, 13, 37, 42, 89, 90, 188, 194, 196–97, 200, 205, 214–15, 222, 324, 331

  Moscow Rules, 11, 170

  Moscow State Institute of International Relations, 310

  Mossad, 137

  Mueller, Robert, 229, 231, 237, 241–42, 260, 368, 380

  murder and murder attempts, 148. See also Berezovsky, Boris; Litvinenko, Alexander; Skripal, Sergei

  Murphy, Cynthia, 92, 93, 136, 174, 217–21, 223, 225, 230–31, 236, 270, 294–95, 309, 364, 394

  arrest of, 265–69

  employment of, 129, 204, 214, 219–21, 230

  tension between husband and, 99–100, 128–30

  tension between secret and American lives, 213–16

  Vienna spy swap and, 290

  Murphy, Katie, 93, 213–14, 266–69, 314

  Murphy, Lisa, 93, 213–14, 267–69

  Murphy, Richard, 91–93, 128–30, 213–17, 225, 229–30, 236, 294–95, 309, 325, 375

  arrest of, 265–69

  employment of, 128

  floppy disks of, 100–104

  house purchased by, 214–15, 216

  Metsos and, 181, 185, 186–87, 188

  money delivery by, 192–200

  as a stay-at-home dad, 214

  surveillance of, 91–92, 93, 95, 98, 99–105, 129–30, 193–96, 198–200, 207–8, 214, 216

  tension between secret and American lives, 213–16

  tension between wife and, 99–100, 128–30

  Vienna spy swap and, 290, 291, 296

  My Beautiful Balkans (Hampel), 191

  Mysteries of the World with Anna Chapman (television program), 316

  National Rifle Association (NRA), 373

  National Security Agency (NSA), 203, 342–43, 348, 351

  National Security Council, 240, 389

  NATO, 50, 73, 179, 234, 323, 325, 327, 328, 357, 361, 385

  natural cover, 34

  Navalny, Alexei, 341

  Navigator, 142

  Nazis, 31, 33, 34

  Nemeth, Anna Marie, 44–45

  New Hampshire primary, 362–63

  new illegals, 7, 353–70. See also internet

  New York University,
73, 129

  Nicholson, Jim, 405n

  Night Wolves (Russian bikers), 304

  9/11 attacks, 7, 77, 135–36, 140

  Ninth Directorate of KGB, 157

  nondiplomatic cover, 15

  non-official cover (NOC), 34, 174, 330

  Norilsk Nickel, 310

  Novaya Gazeta, 307

  Obama, Barack, 229, 238–39, 300, 342, 360, 361, 366

  Ghost Stories briefing, 239–44

  meeting with Medvedev, 245–46, 302

  Russian interest in views of, 216–17

  oligarchs, 65–66, 140, 165, 391

  changing role of, 377–78

  political warfare and, 361

  Putin and, 108–10, 344, 377

  Yeltsin’s secret deal with, 65

  Olshevsky, Dimitry “Ian Lambert,” 29

  O’Neill, John, 77

  One Russia. See United Russia

  Operation Monopoly, 117

  Orange Revolution, 178

  organized crime (Russian), 65, 140, 150, 159

  Paderina, Ekaterina, 329

  Page, Carter, 334–36, 367

  Panetta, Leon, 229, 238, 240, 241–43, 244, 260–61, 275–78, 285, 294, 323, 390

  Parabola (encoding program), 325

  paroles, 248

  Patricof, Alan, 220–21, 270

  Patrushev, Nikolai, 179

  pattern of life analysts, 97

  PayPal, 363

  Peatfield, James Tristan, 44–45

  Peduto, Genesis, 315

  Pelaez, Vicky, 84–90, 130

  arrest of, 270

  hearing of, 282

  as a journalist, 85, 87

  knowledge of husband’s identity, 88

  political views of, 85, 87

  refugee status granted to, 85

  return to Peru, 315

  in Russia, 314–15

  surveillance of, 84–85, 88

  US citizenship obtained by, 87

  Vienna spy swap and, 284, 289, 290

  Penkovsky, Oleg, 276, 279

  Pereplichny, Alexander, 425n

  Pereverzeva, Natalia “Patricia Mills,” 186–88, 198, 199, 200, 221–23, 230

  arrest of, 269–70

  refusal to make admissions, 281

  surveillance of, 222–23

  Vienna spy swap and, 291

  Philby, Kim, 31, 33, 56, 124, 125, 218, 256, 382

  Pieper, Derek, 91, 95, 98, 99, 124, 130, 147, 194, 195, 196, 204, 208, 227, 265, 266, 267, 268–69

  Platt, Jack, 116, 117

  Podesta, John, 364

  Podobnyy, Victor, 330–34, 335–36

  Poeteray, Raymond, 325

  poisoning, 148. See also Litvinenko, Alexander; Skripal, Sergei

  Poland, 355

  political information, 216–23

  political warfare, 353–70. See also elections (US)

  coining of term, 361

  online, 354–61, 363–66, 368–69

  real world, 361–62, 364

  Politkovskaya, Anna, 154

  polonium, 153–54, 155, 156–57, 161–62

  polygraphs, 32

  Post Impulse system, 73

  Poteyev, Alexander, 64, 69–79, 80–81, 82, 84, 93, 173–76, 179, 184, 198, 229, 231, 233–38, 241, 248, 253, 271, 304, 305, 306, 324, 326, 330, 333, 378

  access to illegals’ personal files, 174–75

  in Afghanistan, 70–71, 80

  arrival in US, 260

  background of, 70

  BuzzFeed report on, 425n

  Chapman and, 205, 317

  Cherapanov identified by, 322

  dangers facing, 392–94

  disappearance of, 394

  false report of death, 392

  flight from Russia, 246–48, 257–58

  importance of intelligence provided by, 233

  increasing worry of, 233, 235

  number of illegals identified by, 323

  plans for exfiltration, 236–38, 242–43

  recruitment by FBI, 76–78, 118, 169–70

  requests visit to mistress, 417n

  robbery of apartment, 175–76, 407n

  as “the source,” 69

  training of, 36

  traveling of for job, 173–74

  tried in absentia, 317–18

  Poteyev, Marina, 70, 247

  Poteyev, Nikolai, 70

  Powers, Gary, 16, 279

  preserves, 35

  Prigozhin, Evgeny, 360

  PRISM, 342

  Project Lakhta, 354–57

  PROLOGUE. See Zhomov, Alexander

  Putin, Vladimir, 5, 107–12, 118, 128, 138, 143, 169, 179, 211, 235, 243, 275, 278, 301–5, 307, 310, 316, 337–45, 348, 372, 384, 393

  Cameron’s visit to, 163

  East German revolution and, 19

  election of, 110

  as FSB head, 107–9, 111, 155

  grudge against Hillary Clinton, 363

  illegals and, 8, 34, 111, 301–4, 395, 397

  in the KGB, 8, 34, 108, 303, 395

  Litvinenko and, 108–9, 151, 155–56, 159, 160–61, 408n

  martial arts studied by, 7, 109

  oligarchs and, 108–10, 344, 377

  political warfare and, 354, 355, 358, 361

  return to presidency, 337, 339

  spies/spying and, 107–8, 110–12, 140–41, 233, 340–41

  term limits on presidency, 238

  on traitors, 304, 318–19, 388

  Vienna spy swap and, 386, 390

  view of 9/11 attacks, 135

  Al Qaeda, 162, 345, 379

  radiograms/shortwave radio, 90, 408n

  Read, Marcus, 133

  Reagan, Ronald, 334, 357

  recruitment, 28, 122–25, 218–19

  Red Banner Institute, 36, 71

  Redfin, 125

  Red Heat (film), 246

  Red Sparrow (film), 145–46

  Red Terror, 18

  Republicans, 372–73, 374

  reset strategy. See under Russia

  Ricci, Maria, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 103, 125, 138, 196, 199–200, 204, 209, 254, 265, 266, 267, 291, 295, 314, 330, 332, 336, 397

  Right to Bear Arms, 373

  Robbins, James S., 211

  Rockefeller, Nelson, 28

  Rogers, Tony, 104

  Roman (FBI undercover officer), 248–52, 317

  Ronaldo, Cristiano, 326

  Rose Revolution, 178

  Rosneft, 310, 367

  RT, 344, 366

  Rudenko, Anatoli, 28–29

  Russia

  bombings in, 110, 155

  changes in, 64–65, 169

  conspiratorial worldview in, 178–79, 340

  coup of 1991 in, 12–21, 43, 45, 58, 346, 367

  defense technology of, 112–13

  economic crisis in, 48, 65

  mission to UN, 69, 71–72, 74, 184, 304

  nationalism in, 14, 22, 304, 361

  oligarchs of (see oligarchs)

  organized crime in, 65, 140, 150, 159

  patience and persistence in espionage, 55, 219, 396–97

  post-Soviet vulnerability of, 47–50

  protests in, 339, 363

  “reset” strategy of US, 217, 238–39, 241, 243, 306, 338, 340, 345, 361

  revolution of 1917, 17, 32, 46

  sphere of influence, 179

  traitors punished by, 387

  Western spies in, 11–12

  Russia House, 19–20, 22, 50, 52, 54, 57, 174, 229, 275, 307, 345

  Russian Central Bank, 371

  Russian Consulate, 73

  Russia Today. See RT

  Sanders, Bernie, 363, 365

  Scarlett, John, 48, 49, 405n

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 246

  Sechin, Igor, 310

  Second Chief Directorate of KGB, 51, 54

  Secured Borders (Facebook page), 359

  Semenko, Mikhail, 209–11, 230, 246, 258, 259

  arrest of, 269

  background of, 209–10

  char
ges against, 281

  employment of, 210

  FBI undercover trap, 252–54

  Sepal (decoding program), 325

  Seton Hall University, 210

  Seventeen Moments of Spring (television program), 34, 43, 396

  Shebarshin, Leonid, 13–14, 15, 17–18, 19, 22–23, 45, 401n, 402n

  Shelton, Todd A., 255

  Shvets, Yuri, 159

  Silicon Valley, 212, 341

  Simm, Herman, 234, 235

  Sipher, John, 135

  Skiber, Matt, 363–64

  Skripal, Ludmilla, 176

  Skripal, Sasha, 176, 382

  Skripal, Sergei, 79–82, 176–77, 322

  arrest and incarceration of, 177, 179

  background of, 80

  code name of (Forthwith), 81

  opinions on importance of, 81–82

  poisoning of, 381–89, 391, 392–94

  Vienna spy swap and, 287–88, 293, 298–99, 385

  Skripal, Yulia, 176, 383, 388

  sleepers, 5, 6, 14, 15, 35, 146–47, 378

  Snowden, Edward, 342–43

  social media, 355–61, 366, 368–69

  Soldatov, Andrei, 307

  Sopranos, The (television program), 236

  Sorge, Richard, 33

  Soviet Union

  Afghanistan invasion by, 31, 36, 70–71, 80, 176, 276

  collapse of, 13, 20–24, 43–44, 48 (see also coup of 1991 (Russia))

  “evil empire” designation, 31

  Putin on end of, 108

  size of, 14

  Spain, 159, 321–23

  Special Agent Illegals, 138, 147, 209, 330, 395, 418n

  Special Reserve officers of Directorate S, 182–83, 184, 191

  Special Surveillance Group (SSG) of FBI, 68

  spies and spying, 5–9. See also agents; illegals

  changes in Russian, 179–80

  communications to home base and, 89

  motives of, 75–76

  post-Soviet mission, 22–23

  Putin and, 107–8, 110–12, 140–41, 233, 301, 340–41

  in Russia, 11–12

  Russian vs. Western definitions of, 31

  in UK, 140–41

  Sporyshev, Igor, 330, 335

  spotting, 122, 123, 147, 218, 219

  spy dust, 171

  spy fever, 111–12, 140–41, 169, 179, 233, 341

  “spy rock,” 178

  spy swaps

  Cold War, 16, 278–79

  Vienna (see Vienna spy swap)

  St. Petersburg University, 327–28

  Stalin, Joseph, 33, 318

  Staniford, Bill, 203–4

  START, 238, 242, 243

  Stasi, 19

  Steele, Chris, 367–68

  steganography, 102–3, 374, 376

  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, 216

  STRATFOR, 121

  Sturgess, Dawn, 385

  Sudoplatov, Pavel, 403n

  Sulick, Mike, 20–21, 57–58, 117, 275, 276, 278, 280

  Sutyagin, Igor, 112–14, 286, 287, 288, 293, 297, 298, 299

  SVR, 47, 48–49, 57, 58, 71–72, 77, 107, 144, 194, 230, 231, 253, 258, 376, 389, 394

  Active Measures Directorate, 332

  Anschlag and, 325, 326

 

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