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…sts. Both Hanssen and Ames eluded intensive FBI and CIA investigations that lasted over a decade. According to Victor Cherkashin, their KGB case officer, who I interviewed in Moscow in 2015, the KGB was able to hide their existence from investigators for such a long period part...

…—Edward Snowden in Moscow While waiting to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Ivanovich Cherkashin, who gad been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers in the Cold War. Cherkashin, born in 1932, had served in the KGB’s espionage branch from 19...

260 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Congress by exaggerating the Soviet threat.” Cherkashin evaluated Ames as a man who felt not only slighted by his superiors but “help- less to do anything about it” within the bureaucracy of the CIA. “The money we gave, even if he could spend o...

…ty,” he said. “If we believed the documents were genuine, we would of course grab them.” The final recruitment I asked Cherkashin about was that of Ronald Pelton, the civilian employee of the NSA who had retired in 1979. Pelton had left the NSA without taking any classified docu...

…ligence Center Analysis Group, which allowed him to deliver hundreds of top secrets to the KGB. In return, according to Cherkashin, Ames received between $20,000 and $50,000 in cash for each delivery, which amounted to $4.6 million over the nine years. Tasked Cherkashin about th...

…en F. Cohen, “Snowden Speaks: A Sneak Peek an Exclusive Interview,” The Nation, (website), October 10 2. “According to Cherkashin, Ames...”- Author’s interview with Victor Cherkashin 3. Morell. op.cit. p. 297 4. “Pelton had left the NSA...”- George E. Curry, “Ex-intelligence Ex...

… there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers in the Cold War. Cher- kashin, born in 1932, had served in the KGB’s espionage branch from...

…er, Pelton was again flown to Vienna for another debriefing to see if he could recall any further details. According to Cherkashin, the KGB’s job was to leave no stone unturned when it came to the NSA’s sources. In 1985, the KGB’s task ended when Pelton was arrested by the FBI. L...

… the Looking Glass 254 “There's definitely a deep state”: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.” 255 according to Cherkashin: Cherkashin, interview with author. 258 Pelton had left the NSA: George E. Curry, “Ex-intelligence Expert Guilty of Espionage,” Chicago Tribune, Jun...

” Cherkashin answered. “But as it turned out

Cherkashin decided Pelton had to be debriefed by communications

Cherkashin said he was looking for a well- placed

…tion”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity, interview with author. Mike Rogers, the chairman:...

…full attention after he contacted Russian officials in Hong Kong. While the tactics of the SVR might have changed since Cherkashin retired, its objec- tives remained the same. And the NSA remained its principal target. Nor is there any reason to doubt that it still measures succe...

…rview with an intelligence source who requested anonymity “Pelton, for example, who...”—Author’s interview with Victor Cherkashin. Staff, “Congressman says Snowden planned escape to China,” UPI. June 16, 2013 Donald Rumsfeld, Press Conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Be...