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...rasped his name.* The man whirled, faced a stocky stranger in a trench coat who stood back in the shadows, his powerful arms outstretched. Again the stranger spoke in Russian: "Don't you know me? I am your brother Volodya." The brothers had been apart for 23 years. Vanya would not have immediately recognized Volodya even in broad daylight. At first he was incredulous, then suspicious. But Volodya convinced Vanya by rattling off a series of childhood experiences that the brothers had shared. The two wound up in a tearful bear hug on the landing...
...Understood. From there the plot thickened-and sickened. A dapper little fellow in a blue trench coat showed up at the apartment a few moments later, introduced himself to Vanya as "Ivan Ivanovich, your brother's driver." He added cryptically: "We have been trying to meet you for two days. We wanted to see you alone-to avoid trouble. You understand?" Vanya was pretty sure he understood. When the pair left, he called...
...nights later, Volodya, Ivan and Vanya met again. Hidden all around were FBI men, eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational...
...Vanya brought presents for the family in Russia, for Volodya was due to go home as he had come-disguised as a Soviet government official allegedly on temporary duty with the embassy in Washington. Sevastyanov, apparently convinced he had Vanya signed up as a spy, spilled out a list of secret passwords, meeting places and directions by which Vanya would fall easily into the Soviet spy network in Washington...
After that session, Vanya returned to his U.S. intelligence job, and Volodya went back to Russia unhindered because he was considered "a helpless tool of the secret police." Vanya never saw Sevastyanov again...