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...believe he had left the [Charlestown] area and returned to the area," said FBI special agent Peter S. Ginieres said...
Almost 10 years later, his wife, who never knew of Varenik's contacts with the Americans, still doesn't believe he was a double agent. "My husband was a man of crystal clarity who loved his country passionately," she says. "He was absolutely incapable of committing any treachery against his family and homeland." Like Aldrich Ames, he was capable of such things. Unlike his betrayer Aldrich Ames, he paid for it with his life...
...watched Motorin walk into a store in downtown Washington and barter his operational allowance of vodka and Cuban cigars for stereo equipment. Using these indiscretions as leverage, the FBI persuaded him to begin spying for the U.S. He identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent in the Soviet embassy in Washington. At each of its meetings with Motorin, the FBI gave him a modest cash payment, at first $100, later $200. After each meeting, the bureau also put aside $500 in an escrow account, to be held for Motorin against the day that he might defect...
...Motorin returned to Moscow. Six months later, Ames handed over his identity, and the agent was doomed. A Soviet court that heard the evidence against Motorin said he had received $20,000 from the FBI, citing his purchase of a water bed as proof of his Western decadence. Soon after, he was shot...
From the CIA's point of view, Martynov's importance lay in his potential as a sleeper agent who might rise through the ranks and prove useful in the future. After Ames betrayed him, however, the KGB ordered him to return to Moscow in November 1985. Martynov told his wife and his two young children that he would be back in Washington shortly. Ten days later, Natalia received a note from her husband asking her to come back to Moscow with their son and daughter. As soon as their plane landed, Natalia realized that her husband was in trouble...