Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...internal KGB pseudonym was Lothar, he said, and he was a Directorate "S" staff member serving as a case officer for "illegals," Soviet agents working in Germany who did not have diplomatic covers and so were not protected by diplomatic immunity. In addition, he attempted to recruit agents, mostly among German university students and members of the German peace movement. Varenik described the discord and tensions in the local kgb station and decried the petty politicking and corruption. He was clearly fed up with the existing Soviet system, and he was repelled by the idea of bombing Americans...
...late 1985 and early 1986, as a result of information Ames provided to the KGB, the CIA lost almost all its agents in the Soviet Union. In time the agency would learn that 10 of them had been executed; a complete list of their names and code names appears below for the first time. Many others were sent to prison. In all, three dozen agents were lost. The following excerpts from Nightmover describe six of them...
Sergei Motorin: During the summer of 1980, Motorin was posted to Washington as a third secretary to the Soviet embassy. A young major in the KGB who was married, he attracted the attention of the FBI when the bureau got a telephone call from a friendly insurance adjuster informing them that Motorin had been in a car accident. There was a hooker in the car. Not long afterward, the FBI 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...
...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...
Valeri Martynov: In November 1980, Martynov arrived in Washington with his wife Natalia to take up his duties, ostensibly as third secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington. He was actually a lieutenant colonel in the KGB. In the spring of 1982, however, he was recruited through a joint FBI-CIA courtship program and began feeding information to the Americans...