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From the spring of 1985 until February 1994, Aldrich Ames was Moscow's master spy inside the CIA. In the course of his work on behalf of the KGB, for which he was paid or promised $4.6 million, he betrayed dozens of Soviets whom the CIA had recruited. Ten were eventually executed; others were condemned to prison sentences in the Gulag. Ames also revealed hundreds of American intelligence operations to the KGB...
...however, almost preordained for the task. For years she had toiled quietly in the research section of the Soviet division and the counterintelligence staff. There was hardly an important, or even an unimportant, case involving the KGB or the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) that she did not know. Jeanne Vertefeuille could follow the tangled threads that might link a case in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago to one in Vienna today. If a KGB colonel had appeared in Copenhagen under one name and turned up a decade later in New Delhi with another identity, give it to Jeanne-she would...
...1960s. In the early 1970s she had found her metier, counterintelligence--combatting opposition spies and moles--when she was appointed head of the research section in the Soviet division's counterintelligence group, then chief of the branch that maintained biographies on Soviet and East European operatives. When a new KGB officer popped up in Bangkok, or the agency was targeting a GRU colonel in Prague as a possible recruit, the field would ask headquarters to run name traces on these individuals to see what the CIA's computers might hold. Vertefeuille was in charge of that process...
...doctor too. She went through a particularly difficult experience in the waning years of Soviet power. In 1984 she was assigned as the personal physician to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov. He and his wife Yelena Bonner were closely watched by the secret police. "[KGB agents] tried to accuse us of diagnosing Sakharov's condition as being more serious than it really was, or of trying to give him information and news," she says. "We were treated very badly. I have trouble cleansing myself of the memory...
...literary operator, Mailer spent six months in Minsk and Moscow interviewing friends and co-workers who knew the American defector in 1959 and the early '60s, when he worked unhappily in a Soviet radio plant and courted and married Marina Prusakova. Mailer and Schiller also interviewed some of the KGB agents who had the stupefying work of following Oswald around, and they read the KGB transcripts from the electronic bugs installed in the Oswalds' Minsk apartment-the intimacies and banalities of quarreling newlyweds. ("Wife: [yells] ... I'm not going to cook. L.H.O.: You could make cutlets, put on water...