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… in central Hong Kong, a posh club mainly for expatriate Americans. It was on the 48th floor with a spectacular view of Victoria Harbor. Once there, I had no problem finding my source. He was, as he had described himself, a large man with short-cropped brown hair wearing a brigh...

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…I’ve been there” —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 espiona...

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...

262 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS “T can’t say what the SVR would do today. I am long retired,” he said, with a nostalgic shake of his head. “But in my day, we needed some reason to believe the gift was genuine.” “Would you need to vet the person delivering it?” “With Hanssen...

Through the Looking Glass | 259 I began by asking him about one of the more celebrated cases he had handled for the KGB, that of Ames, who had acted as a Russian mole in the CIA between April 1985 and January 1994. In those nine years, he rose, or was maneuvered by the KGB, into...

…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 Expert Guilty Of Espionage, Chicago Tribune, Jun...

…ve been 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 branc...

…l was then 71 years old. He was considered one of the most courageous soldiers of his age, with a record of astonishing victories. He looked over the sun-dappled fields along the Saar river on that fall day and saw nearly certain victory in the coming battle. He had Napoleon outm...

…rity of the fifteen American defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Ham- ilton, Edward Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, Isa- iah Oggins, Alfred Sarant, Robert E. Webster, and Flora Wovschin, were...

Through the Looking Glass | 263 Pelton debriefings. The debriefing sessions, which went on for fifteen days, were from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. In them, Pelton managed to recall Project A, a joint NSA-CIA-navy operation in which subma- rines surreptitiously tapped into Soviet unde...

” 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

…information”: 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 ch...