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thirteen invitees were ushered into the room

” he replied coyly. “That is all I can say.”

a civil servant from Dagestan who had amassed an estimated

but he had only received one callback from Kucherena’s

and my flight back to New York was in five

I still had not been able to make contact with

it would have an even greater interest in

” he said with a twinkle in his eye. “The Internet

he told me that many “walk- ins” who contacted Soviet

the KGB’s job was to leave no stone unturned when

which connected to the Soviet Pacific Fleet’s mainland

a joint NSA- CIA- navy operation in which submarines

where he was domiciled at the residence of the

Pelton had almost certainly been photographed

because the FBI had twenty- four- hour surveillance

the civilian employee of the NSA who had retired in 1979.

” he said. “We didn’t control him; he controlled

the anonymous spy delivered twenty- seven com-

the KGB (and later the SVR) paid him $600

even if he could spend only a small portion