"[French]" "That which enables a wise ruler and a good General to strike, to conquer and to attain goals beyond the reach of ordinary mortals is..." ""PRIOR KNOWLEDGE" Sun Tsu (Fifth Century B.C.)" "In the modern world, this "prior knowledge" is synonymous with "Secret Sevices" Novelist call it... "ESPIONAGE"" "[/French]" "NIGHT FLIGHT FROM MOSCOW" "On October 15 at 11:45 am the American ambassador to France drove to the Elysee Palace to place in the hands of the President of the French Republic a personal letter from the President of the United States" "Dear Mr. President, in view of the exceptional gravity of the matter" "I have felt it necessary to communicate with you directly without recourse to normal diplomatic usage" "From the facts revealed to us by a high-ranking member of the Soviet secret service who has just been granted political asylum in the United States we have learned of the existence in France of a vast espionage Network which operates for the Soviet Union" "its members are within the decision-making echelons of your government and exercise the highest political military and economic functions." "My services are at your disposition to supply the details which will enable you to neutralize this threat to the security of France and the free world" "[French]" "The President will see you now." "[/French]" "Paris, Orly airport, September 15th 4:20 p.m." "[French] Mr. And Mrs. Vlassov" "Flight 302 to Moscow" "Gate 3 [/French]" " A bottle of brandy please" " Yes, monsieur." "Thank you." "Mr. Vlassov, from flight 302 to Moscow, please go to Gate 3 for boarding..." "[French] Monsieur Alexei Federovitch Vlassov" "Second Secretary of the USSR Embassy." "Yes, in Paris." "He's asking us for protection" "His wife is in the departure lounge." "He's afraid they may force her to leave." "We inform passengers that the Flight 302 to Moscow will be delayed" "Departure expected in one hour." "Passengers are required to proceed to the bar where refreshments will be served" "He was going to boarding and suddenly rushed to the Airport Police door." "Here, nearby." "I couldn't do anything." "Yes!" "..." "Yes!" "..." "All right!" "..." "I'll try that." "I repeat to you:" "he didn't tell me anything!" "I know nothing!" "How to..." " Madam, I must ask you to give me your passport." "Someone from the Foreign Affairs is on his way." "The First Secretary of our Embassy too." "We inform that the Flight 302 to Moscow is delayed due to the late arrival of an incoming aircraft..." "Lunch will be served." "Departure expected in two hours." "I'm the airport director." "My assistant." "The Soviet Embassy gentlemen are here." "[/French]" " Colonel Vlasov has behaved in a regretable manner but this is understandable he is on the point of a nervous breakdown in fact he is returning to Moscow on sick leave." " If monsieur Vlasov wishes to remain in France we have some excellent neurologists." " Inspector Joss." " Hello inspector!" " Madam Vlasov is here" " We protest your treatment of madam Vlasov!" "she holds a diplomatic passport it has been taken from her this is illegal sequestration!" " I must assume, Monsieur, that you do not fully understand the use of the words you employ" "Needless to say if madam Vlasov wishes to leave this country she is free to do so at any time this moreover is what we are about to ask her if you will permit" " Would you please come in, madam." "No, madam Vlasov" " Sit down please, Madam." "Madam, do you wish to take the plane to Moscow?" "You may speak without fear." " Where is my husband?" "I want to see my husband." "Monsieur Vlasov, please!" "Col. Vlasov!" "There's still time!" "Think again!" "I don't have to explain you anything!" " Monsieur, if you cannot speak French you will kindly restrict yourselves to English!" "Alexei!" "What happened?" "What means all this?" "What should I do?" " Madam, we must ask you to speak only in French or English" " Tatiana, I'm not going back" "I'm asking you to come with me there's nothing to be afraid of." "We will be protected" " and the children?" " Tatiana," "Ivan is 20, Grigory 18." "They have grown up." " I am going home" " Gentlemen, once again I'm asking you to take me to the Embassy of the United" "States of America" " Of course you are going to the Americans but first you listen to me," "Monsieur le Conseilleur Soviétique you're Colonel Alexei Vlasov of the KGB we have been watching you for months try to understand our position we cannot let you go off like that we're not running a travel agency pick me up at the airport" "drop me off at the American Embassy." "You have to give us something for all these." "Look: we are asking very little, comrade and so one question for us one little one and we are even" "If it weren't for us you'll be on your way to Red Square" "You owe us something." " It is true that I requested your protection." "Now I'm asking you to take me to the Embassy of the United States." "[French]" " He won't talk." " Sir, we still have 48 hours." "He didn't sleep last night." "He won't sleep much tonight." "He'll be less lively in the morning." " Sir, I'd like you to listen to someone." "Tell your story." "I just did." "Do it again." "Your name." "My name is Santelli." "I work at the airport Duty Free Shop." "He bought some cognac this morning." "I say it all?" "A piece of paper was in his 100 franc note." "He dashed into the police office." "Here's the message, sir." "Call 265.7460 immediately." "The US Embassy." "Alexei Fedorovich Vlassov seeks political asylum." " She called of course." " You can forget your 48 hours." "The US Embassy will be on our backs... unless you go to the "wrong" Embassy." "Let me handle it." "Tavel!" "Play it soft." "[/French]" " Just give me the names of your french contacts and we won't say anymore" " I ask you, please, to take me to the" "Embassy of the United States." " Colonel Vlasov if you want to go to the embassy" "[French]" "The Soviet Embassy" "[/French]" " I do not think you will go through with it" " You know in one minute" " You're committing a professional blunder" " I know" "[French] I understand, Mr. Minister" "May I emphasize that once again" "Foreign Affairs ignores our imperatives." "Vlassov is a big catch." "I submit, but deplore it." "[/French]" " This is murder" " It is suicide" " What is it exactly you want to know?" "[French] Where are you, Tavel?" "In front of the Soviet Embassy, Sir." "Come back." "Immediately!" "[/French]" "Mr. Vlasov, my name is O'Brien" "American Embassy" "[French] 3 minutes more, he'd have cracked." "You wouldn't have got much." "France can't afford such a defector." "[/French]" "Belgian Customs" " Here we are, Mr. Vlasov" "Smoke Americans?" " Oh, this may be a bit mild for me" " You'll get used to them" "Your plane will leave in half an hour you should be in Washington at" "2:30 p.m. local time" "Have a nice trip!" "Good luck!" " Thank you!" "at 23 p.m. local time" "Colonel Alexei Fedorovich Vlasov arrived in Washington on board a special plane he was immediately taken to" "Langley Virginia 20 minutes from the White House site of the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency" "it is the largest government building in the Washington area after the Pentagon the grounds cover 140 acres and the installations cost the american taxpayers about 46 million dollars" "The CIA employs about 200,000 agents abroad around 10,000 employees work at headquarters among them are research specialists, experts in electronics, economists, psychologists, Atomic Scientists, surgeons, doctors, pilots, cryptologists, experts on islamic jurisprudence," "on Chinese naval construction, on politics, metallurgy, judo chemistry, physics and microfilms" "200,000 communist publications are translated into English every month even the most innocuous roadmaps, railroad timetables, telephone directories, reports of medical association meetings or scientific organizations, all contribute to a constant flow of bits of information, which are immediately filed" "and cross-indexed." "24 hours a day, seven days a week experts in every language in the world listen to foreign radio broadcasts to analyze every scrap of information." "machine translation computers working at 30,000 words in hour a special microfilm laboratory ultra-high-speed duplicating and print out machines, 40 million punch-card are among the devices, which gives the CIA the most extensive files in the world and finally of course there are the" "unpublicized activities: the special operations of the clandestine services often their responsibilities are: to support the government in some countries to foment rebellion in others and sometimes to bring down the governments." "The New York Times has estimated the" "CIA's annual budget at $1,000,000,000" "One man believes that it's never too expensive to be informed." "That man is Alan Davies: "Mr. CIA"" "autonomous director of this gigantic organization which has often been called a state within the state." "It was in this nerve center of American intelligence that Alexei Fedorovich" "Vlasov was to undergo his first test the lie detector." " Do you intend to tell the whole truth?" " Yes." "How old are you?" " 50" "I was born 11th of July, 1922, in Leningrad." " When did you arrive in Washington?" " Three days ago." " When did you decide to choose freedom?" " Freedom is a very personal conception." " Answer the questions as asked, Mr. Vlasov." "Do you love your children?" " Yes" " Have you ever had sexual relations with a girl under age?" " No" " Have you ever wanted to have sexual relations with a girl under age?" " No!" "Never had any sexual relations with a man?" " No" " We're now in question 300 mediate" "Have all your answers been truthful up to this point?" " Yes." "No!" "I'm not being entirely truthful because your line of questioning has been stupid and obscene." " Mr. Vlasov, please answer "yes" or "no" only." "Did you ask for political asylum in the United States?" " Yes" " Did you do so with the intention of acting against the interest of the United States?" " No." "My action was not directed against the United States." "It was directed against the tyrants who rule my country." "I love my country." " Once again, Mr. Vlasov" ""yes" or "no" only." "Please!" "How long have you been married?" " 21 years" "Do you still have sexual relations with mrs." "Vlasov?" " Under the circumstances it would be rather difficult." " When was the last time you had sexual relations with mrs." "Vlasov?" " Now, you listen to me!" "I'm colonel Alexei Fedorovich Vlasov of the KGB." "I left my family." "I risked my life and traveled 5,000 miles because I have urgent and important matters to reveal to the government of the United States not to go over every detail of my private life for a bunch of frustrated sex maniacs." " Shall we continue, Mr. Vlasov?" "When were you last unfaithful to mrs." "Vlasov?" "You probably already know but they will confirm it for you." "One month ago with one of your compatriots." "Thank you!" " Mrs. Lee as a loyal American you must realize that..." " My husband is American ." "I am Italian." " Madam where did you meet Mr. Vlasov?" " In Paris at a party at the British Embassy." " Who introduced him to you?" " We didn't need an introduction." "I looked at him, he looked at me and we left the party together." " Wasn't your husband there?" "My husband is hardly ever there." "We see each other once in a while, but that evening he wasn't there." " So you left with Mr. Vlasov." "Where did you go?" "To my hotel." " What impression did he make on you?" " Quite an impression." "You don't find many men like him anymore." "Too bad." "Mrs. Lee!" "We're talking about Colonel" "Alexei Vlasov of the KGB one of the top espionage specialist in the Soviet Union during your conversations he may reveal things which could be of great interest to us" "I don't think what he revealed would be interesting to you" "anyway" "How do you think Mata Hari operated?" "Sweetheart!" "how many tanks have you got between Kiev and Moscow?" "or: darling, tell me about your missiles missus and I'll be nice to you" " Mrs. Lee, please be serious!" "He didn't speak to you about his professional activities, his work?" " you know what we say in Italy?" "If you want to know about man's work talk to his wife and if you want to know about his wife talk to his mistress." "But when a man wants to make love he doesn't talk about missiles." "He makes love." "And then he snores..." "In America is different?" "All right, we are ready." "interrogation of Alexei Fedorovich Vlasov on the subject of his mission to Prague on the twenty-fifth of August 1968 during the Czechoslovakian uprising." "Ready." "Mr. Vlasov, who signed your mission orders for Prague?" " Colonel Makarov who was in charge of the people's democracy section at the time." " What was the date on which you received the orders?" " It was during the last week of August 1968." "I cannot tell you the exact day." " Mr. Vlasov, why were you chosen for this mission?" " I had worked a great deal with" "Melkishev, our authority on Czechoslovakia." " You stated that Colonel Makarov was your chief of section at that time?" " That is correct." " Mr. Vlasov, are you certain that Colonel Makarov was in charge of the people's democracy section in August of 1968?" " No, you're right." "Kanilevskiy was still chief of that section." " Than how do you explain the fact that Makarov signed your mission orders for Prague?" " Kanilevskiy was on vacation Crimea." "Makarov was filling-in for him." " Tell us about your trip to Prague." "There's nothing to tell." "I took the plane in Damascus and landed in Prague." "Non-stop, Mr. Vlasov?" " No, I changed planes in Nicosia." " No other stops?" " Yes." "You're right again." "The plane developed some sort of technical trouble" "I do not know what." "We had to land in Sofia." " And then what happened?" " I was met by Dubrovin, who had been there since the start of the events." " Mr. Vlasov, is this certain you're not mistaken about Dubrovin?" " Absolutely." "He drove out to meet me." "We left the airport together in his car." "Nickolay Andrianovich Dubrovin?" " No, of course not." "I'm talking about Mikhail Andreevich Dubrovin" "He is 15 years younger than the other one." " Sorry, Mr. Vlasov." "You were met by Mikhail Andreevich Dubrovin" "Continue." "He brought me up to date on the situation." "Our tanks had already restored order and we had only to clean up the odds and ends." " What do you mean by "clean up the odds and ends"?" "Wipe out the last pockets of resistance, reestablish democratic socialism." " Re-established Czechoslovakian democratic socialism with Russian tanks?" " Yes, with the same Russian tanks that gave the Czechs their freedom in 1945 when they crushed Hitler's fashist armies." " Mr. Vlasov, were you still crushing" "Hitler's fascist armies in 1968?" "Sometimes the same remedy will cure different diseases." "The question of" "Czechoslovakia in 1968 was primarily of a strategic nature." "This was the new frontier of our socialism." "We had paid for it with 20 million dead in the war." "Let me point out that you had your own new frontier and you send troops ashore they do things to defend your way of life." "We all live in glass houses." " Mr. Vlasov, if your new frontier was so perfect why are you here today?" " I am here because of Stepan Pavlovich Ivanov." "Tell your machines not to bother." "He's not in your files." "He is a shoemaker at his shop in the basement of our block of flats in Moscow." "He lost his two sons in the war." "One in Stalingrad the other one in submarine." "One night" "I was coming home after midnight." "I saw a light." "Stepan was bent over an old shoe trying to make it into something usable." "As I watched him" "I realized that I had spent a lifetime molding, manipulating, purging... breaking men down to make a new men better man." "But for Stepan" "50 years of revolution had changed nothing." "What was I to do?" "In my country you do not fight the system from within." "That is why I'm here." " Gentlemen, Vlasov is lying." "The key question was number 390 which concerned his real intentions towards the United States:" " Did you do so with the intention of acting against the interests of the United States?" " No my action was not directed against the" "United States." "It was directed against the tyrants who rule my country." " There's a lie gentlemen." "Vlasov is lying." "it certainly wasn't loving mother" "Russia that brought him to Washington." "Nor was it pity for his poor old communist cobbler." "Let's look at the real reason." "Moscow May 1st, 1964 excited crowds gather to cheer the annual military parade" "Nikita Khrushchev takes his place in the reviewing stand surrounded by high military officials" "Communist Party leaders." "In accordance with strict protocol marshal Rodion Malinovsky the Soviet defense minister" "is the last to arrive at the reviewing stand." "We recognize Marshall Grechko, Voroshilov" "Marshall Malinovski, Khrushchev," "East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph" "Suslov, Brezhnev," "Cultural Affairs Minister Katerina Furtseva," "Ivan Kruglov" "Nikolai Kamenkov, Kadashin, Vedenskiy, Kirov" "Colonel Alexei Fedorovich Vlasov and [indistinct]" "Kirov had been in the Khrushchev camp for 15 years" "and Vlasov marries his sister, Tatiana." "He starts up the party ladder fast and his talents justify the climb." "With everyone in place the parade begins" "The students of the Frunze military academy." "Voroshilov, Malinovski and Khrushchev salute." "Soviet armie's Lenin political Academy." "Brezhnev, Furtseva," "Mikojan watch the procession." "Representing the Soviet Navy the sailors of the Baltic Fleet" "the tank unit" "we shortened the film because the military parade goes on for hours." "In the middle Marshall Semen Budennıy." "Now the May day procession of Moscow's population begins." "It's interesting to note that Soviet cameraman, no doubt following orders, always includes Vlasov in every film showing military and party leaders." "Flowers for Khrushchev," "for Kirov and also for Vlasov." "We see Vlasov growing steadily more important as a member of" "Khrushchev's first-team." "Group that Khrushchev's rivals will later refer to as the personality cult." "That was May day 1964." "A few months later in October" "Khrushchev falls and is replaced by Brezhnev" "Look carefully the short documentary of the Communist Party Congress." "This time it's Brezhnev who leads the high officials and his own team to the platform." "Don't bother to look for Kirov he went down the drain with Khrushchev." "Naturally our friend Vlasov has lost his place in the sun as well." "You can spot him in the back rows of the hall." "Just another face in the crowd and he's back in his Colonel's uniform." "It was the beginning of the end." "1966 he was assigned to the" "Soviet embassy in Ankara posing as an assistant cultural attaché." "So it's there that we get our initial talent spot on Vlasov." "through our British colleague" "Mr. Philip Boyle the Secret Intelligence Service." "Sir!" " Thank you!" "Yes well I am I met him first when I was stationed in Turkey" "He seemed to me to be a worthwhile target." "There was something vulnerable about him." "But anyway I arranged a few were more meetings like that or rather casual." "I got rather well with him." "He always seemed to be rather beatened... disillusioned." "There's no question about that." "But I wasn't absolutely convinced that his rock bottom communism was all that shattered." "He was clearly recruitable." "Anyway I've all the best thing to do is to let the the fruit ripen on the tree as we say." "So I passed the information over to you and that rather idiotic photograph" "and really that's about all." "Thank you!" " After Ankara three years back in Moscow." "And ascent to Paris as a second secretary in the embassy there." "Ever since Ankara his private life has begun to fall apart." "In Paris he is allowed a few indiscretions." "After this one ax falls." "He is recalled to Moscow." "50 years old and not a prayer of making General." "He will be retired as a colonel unless there's an even stiffer punishment waiting for him in Moscow." "After what he's seen in the West life there seems freer easier much more suited to the taste of a retired colonel." "So he defects." "Gentlemen" "These are the real reasons for" "Colonel Vlasov's presence among us today." "Thank you!" " You know I think Mr. Vlasov is a frightful liar." " Sure he's lying I'd be worried if he didn't." " Yes, I suppose you would." " Vlasov is like anybody else little paranoid around the edges, but who isn't in this business?" "He wants to be able to live with himself even if it means living with a traitor." "Would expect him to say: "that'll teach the sons of bitches not to promote me"?" "Hell, no." "He needs something more noble." "So he works up a lie about tyrants and poor shoemakers." "I kind of like his lies: they ring true." " You leaving tonight?" " Yep." "Due in London tomorrow" " We'll keep in touch, won't we?" " Course!" "If he tells us anything you'll be the first to know." "We won't forget Ankara." " I'm Alan Davies." " I know." "Mr. Vlasov, you're going to be our guest for the next six months." "Course we'll do everything we can to make your stay a pleasant one." " Thank you!" " My name is Kate Cross." "I'm here to keep you company." " You don't say." " I could be your housekeeper, your secretary your friend..." "You name it" " How much are they paying for these special services?" "Plenty!" "Do I move in with you or do I take the guest room?" "I think you'll be better off in the guest room." "You know, if you like to change housekeepers it's not a problem, I won't be hurt" "Not at all!" "You're a perfectly lovely housekeeper!" "And on any other circumstances I would have been absolutely delighted." "And what's the problem?" "I do not like performing in public!" "The Soviet Union and its block of satellites pose a constant power threat to the security of the West." "To meet this threat you have built yourselves a bulwark." "This bullwork is military alliance among the 14 nations under your control." "You call that alliance NATO." "It has played its part in maintaining peaceful coexistence." "So far, so good." "But I'm here to tell you now that unless you act fast, very fast, within two years there will be no more NATO." " You have been penetrated." "Every high-level secret decision taken in NATO has been delivered to my desk as soon as it was to yours." "This is possible because our sources are within the top echelons of the alliance." "I said the top echelons." " You have the names?" " Most of them." "All, except in England." "I have no particulars on England." "As for France... who even though she has stepped out of NATO is still the key to the defense of Europe" "I have two names and tangible proof to back them up." "Your weakest point is West Germany." "There I have a number of names." "Somewhere near Munich October the 5th 7am" "[German] Frau von Streilitz!" "The Master's horse!" "[/German]" "I must tell you that I personally took the liberty of sending the news of your impending meeting with von Streilitz to the very top level of the Bonn government." " You what?" "!" "I stopped all NATO coded message traffic for two days!" "I sent you a personal representative to help you set up this meeting in absolute secrecy then you spilled a whole thing your people in Bonn." " I couldn't avoid it." "You are chief of the CIA" "You come for a secret meeting with General von Streilitz" "Commander-in-chief of Germany's defense forces and obviously I cannot conceal it from my old authorities" " Now, in about an hour." "you're going to be able to tell them that their General von Streilitz is a Soviet agent." "And that there are others." "Vlasov?" "Davies, in my 40 years in the Espionage field" "I have learned to expect anything..." "But General von Streilitz?" "Horst Felsen?" "My highest assistant for 10 years?" "No!" "I can't believe." "[German]Herr Lepke!" "[/German]" "Suicide." "Perhaps the best solution it means no scandal." " Terrific!" "No scandal" "But that's not the end of it." "What are you going to do about Felsen?" " Felsen is on vacation." "On the Koenigssee" " lake in southern Germany." "October 8 8:30 am" "The body of Horst Felson was recovered during the course of the day of October 9th." "London October 10th 11:30am" "Hi, Phillip!" "I'm sorry I am late." "Traffic was really bad..." " Martini, very dry." " And another glass of sherry." "[indistinct]" "Am I scaring them off?" " No." "It's a British habit." "They're being discreet." "It's bad form to eavesdrop on MI6 especially if he's a member of your own club." " You mean they know about you?" "No, they simply know that Alfred Boyle is my father" "Sir France is my grandfather and our coat of arms is a cloak  dagger." " Here we are." "Cheers." " Cheers." " Now, how does Mr. Vlasov come along?" "He is in great shape, talking his head off." " Good to hear that!" "You'd better hear what he's been talking about." "Then tell me how delighted you are." " You mean bad news?" " I'm on my way back from Germany." "They hit the jackpot!" "The French didn't do better themselves even they're on the outside." "We should probably thank them for withdrawing their spies from NATO along with the rest." "We talk to France government-to-government." "Personal letter from the President." "Its touchy." "Yes, but..." " Oh, I wouldn't be too hard on the French." "We're all very much in the same boat." "I mean, nobody minds throwing out their rotten apple, but we do hate being told that our barrel stinks to high heaven." "Anyway, what about lunch?" " Philip, the barrel stinks to high heaven." " Which barrel?" "You mean one of ours?" " Foreign Office." "Jonathan Lane and George Burger." "Munich." "October 15th 10:00 am" "[German]" "To the light, we walk in shadows, like blind people we tend a wall, and we are in the night, like the dead." "Olaf Geinsehofen" "Otto von Dierschink" "Wilhelm Friedrich Ludinger" "Michael Darenhaupt" "Hans Georg Lindequist" "Theodor Siegenhackt" "Horst Felsen" ""TO MY FRIEND HORST FELSEN, LUCIEN BERTHON"" "[/German]" "Bon jur Bertu!" "Poor Felsen!" "He couldn't even manage a funeral to himself." " Did you know the family?" " I have spent a few weekends with them." "They have a cottage by lake." "Nice place to get away from it all." " You're being a bit heavy handed out in." " What are you talking about?" " Felson was drowned in that lake" "and not without help from outside." "The Germans are spring cleaning." "Avoiding a scandal." " Felson a Soviet agent?" "Today, our homeland is mourning..." "But why this masquerade?" " A military aircraft crashes." "Routine flying." "Accident." "Seven bodies." "Throw in Felson." "Eight coffins." "No scandal." " Felson was on Vlasov's list?" " Now you see how stupid you were to get out of NATO?" "Nobody tells you a thing, you know?" "Yes... yes, he's on the list." " I see three possibilities." "First:" "Felson, unmasked, kills himself." "Second:" "Felson is suicided by the Germans to hush the affair." "Third:" "Felson is liquidated by the Russians to keep him quiet." " Yes." "Vlasov has done a very good job on us all..." "We're beginning to find Felsons everywhere we look." " You too?" " The Foreign Office:" "Lane and Burger." "That was very indiscreet wasn't it?" "Anyway, keep it under your hat..." "We haven't moved yet." "In any case, we'll all be sharing our secrets in the Common Market soon." "How are things with you?" " I was told to be at the Elysée Palace at 4:00 this afternoon." "We received the names from the" "President himself." " Every single spook in the business is here to have a last sniffle of poor old Felson." "You know one single bomb could put back spying in the West... 20 years?" "Paris the residence of the" "President of the Republic of France, the Elysee Palace." "October 15th, 5:30 p.m." "[F r e n c h]" "The President will see you now." "Here are Vlassov's two presents." "I've been put in charge of this agency until the Berthon inquiry is over." "My presence here is temporary." "And I count on your help in this matter." "Report on nuclear sub defects from Deval." "We appreciated... his work on arms sales to Africa." "The Djebel case?" "Excellent" "For our next meeting" "Sirius will contact you in the usual way." "Amazing, no?" "Not really" "That was the last act." "It starts in here." "During the German occupation, 1942-1944" "Berthon works for Nazi propaganda." "At the Liberation - a trial." "Berthon was tried for high treason" "After the second hearing he'd had it." ""Soviet Secret Service link revealed."" ""Pro Nazi Berthon risks his head!"" "At the last minute, a miracle-witness:" "Gribowski" "Says: 'defendant was a member of my network..." "The Resistance'" "Three years later we find Gribowski again" "listed as a Soviet agent" "Your conclusion?" "If you were Gribowski, sir, what would you have said to Berthon?" "Remember that we had Vlassov" "Berthon made me take him to the Soviet Embassy to make him talk" "What do you think, sir?" "I think you have replaced Berthon." "To avoid any misunderstanding" "I want to make my position clear." "I've been married 23 years and have 4 kids." "A plain happy marriage." "My wife is a country girl." "Her father has a vineyard." "For 23 years a perfect housewife... devoted only to her family." "She knows absolutely nothing of" "Secret Service matters." "Yet today if you sent for me to say:" "Your wife's been a Soviet agent for 23 years." "I'd reply without hesitating:" "That's quite possible." "It would only be after the investigation and if it were totally negative" "that I'd let myself think it unthinkable for anyone to suspect my wife." "I had the choice of a regional post in St. Lo or reorganizing this office." "I should have chosen St. Lo." "You have a lot of work ahead of you." "I am Tavel, Branch Chief." "Thank you for coming, Mr. Deval." "I had an appointment with M. Debecourt" "He'll see you in a few moments." "Forgive us for putting you through this." "Through what?" "It won't take long." "It's better if I leave you alone." "I'll see you afterwards." "M. Debecourt is expecting us." "M. Deval, you're one of our top defense men." "This film with your daughter could not have been sent to us by our German colleagues." "However, two years ago, your colleagues tried to blackmail me." "Your daughter goes to Hamburg for one reason." "The Germans recruit our Number 3 defense man." "I'd have done the same." "It was then that you turned to Berthon for help?" "I knew him." "Wasn't it natural?" "It is less natural that you contacted him privately." "We have no record of your request." "What did you expect?" "A press conference?" "Berthon promised to keep it quiet." "What could be better for you and for me?" "We know..." "Berthon intervened with Felson who had set up the operation against you." "They worked very closely." "So what?" "What did Berthon ask from you in return?" "Nothing at all, you're joking!" "Send for him immediately!" "Report on nuclear sub defects from Deval." "We liked his work on arms sales to Africa" "The Djebel case?" "In about a week..." ""The mystery case of Lucien Berthon"" ""Why was he suspended?"" ""The truth, Berthon!"" ""Berthon case and French Counter-Espionage"" ""Authorities silent on Berthon case"" ""High official implicated in spy scandal"" ""Lucien Berthon speaks on radio tonight"" "You're tuned to Europe Number 1" "G. Leroy presents the Europe Evening debate" "Our guest, head of French Counter-Espionage," "Lucien Berthon whose job it is to keep silent is now ready to speak." "Dial Alma 9000 and he'll answer you." "The first calls are already coming in." "Is what's happening political revenge?" "Nothing is happening to me." "I thought you were suspended." "That is not correct." "No sanctions have yet been taken." "Let me put the question differently." "Did you Minister approve this broadcast?" "Call Anjou 2830 and ask the Minister." "I won't bother." "You've answered me." "You can still try." "Next call." "You're on, Mr. Slimane." "Weren't you in Lyons at one time?" "During the Algerian war?" "Correct." "You conducted interrogations?" "Correct." "My name is Yaced Slimane." "From your office I was taken to the hospital." "Do you remember me?" "Not particularly." "Lyons was 15 years ago." "I remember very well." "This is not a question." "Have you a question to ask?" "No question." "That's all I can say about Ben Barka." "And now a commercial." "We'll be back with you shortly." "Next question." "Any personal contacts with Soviet agents?" "Indeed." "Every time I catch one." "Now over to Gilles Delarue" "Our London correspondent." "We've just had a bulletin linking our debate with the latest news." "Go ahead London." "After the German suicide wave, after the Berthon case in France," "England has her own spy scandal." "The news exploded tonight." "Two foreign office high officials" "Burger and Lane have defected to the East." "British Intelligence is trying to track their route to Moscow." "It is likely the investigation will center on Paris." "Authorized circles hint that only" "British Intelligence and a French agent knew Burger and Lane were suspected." "They were about to be arrested." "Who tipped them off?" "This is the big question here." "This is Gilles Delarue from London." "My question is short:" "What do you think?" "If what we heard is true..." "You doubt it?" "This is not what I mean." "If Burger and Lane were tipped off either by a French secret agent or a British Intelligence person that makes several thousand suspects." "Let's wait for the inquiry results." "We hope you'll comment on the results for us." "That was our last question." "Our time is up now." "Tomorrow the President of Matra will discuss the Le Mans race." "Thanks for being our guest at Europe Number One." "It worked out rather well." "I think so." "Thank you." "Do come to my office for a drink." "So you were here." "I tried to reach you all morning." "Your office sent for me." "What will they ask me?" "They'll ask you... about me." "How I lived, the people I saw." "If you were my mistress." "Just tell them the truth." "I can't do that!" "He'd divorce me." "We stopped seeing each other 5 years ago." "I'll say we met at..." "They know." "Don't worry it won't leave their files." "It's addressed to Mr. And Mrs. Walter." "He must come too." "If you don't do something, my life's over!" "What can I do?" "I can't do anything." "Was it true about the Algerian?" "He's going home." "Tell Ducourneau." "That's a real break!" "Ducourneau." "We're finished." "That's a real break." "We're finished." "Don't speak." "Give me your number." "I'll ring back in 5 minutes." "S.C. E?" "Something in English on the wire tap." "He must know he's been tapped." "He cut the call short." "He's calling back 833.0590." "Police Headquarters?" "What's the address for 833.0590?" "It's urgent!" "We just heard you..." "it was very good." "My phone's out of order." "May I use yours?" "It's from Le Bourget airport." "We'd get there too late." "He's been contacted." "A meeting." "Stay close." "All right." "Put me on to your operator." "Do as I tell you!" "A police customer wants you." "Listen carefully:" "The Bir Hakeim Bridge heading toward Passy." "Got it." "Bir Hakeim Bridge, headed for Passy." "Motor running." "This isn't ajoke, huh?" "Do as you're told!" "Check if your rear doors are unlocked." "He jumped into a cab headed the other way." "What cab company?" "G7 Taxies." "This is the Police!" "Haven't you any cars left?" "The driver who took a fare on Bir Hakeim." "I know." "Hold on." "He must've switched off his mike." "Keep trying." "What do I ask him?" "His destination." "He won't switch it on til his fare's over." "Was he a fake cop?" "Something like that." "Keep trying." "At last!" "Where are you headed?" "I'm free." "I took my fare to his car." "There he goes!" "That's it for tonight." "[/F r e n c h]" " Good evening, Bertu!" " Good evening!" " I'm afraid you'd been a little... sacrificed in this affair, Bertu, and" "I'm sorry." " I'm beginning to understand." "Vlasov blue the cover of Lane and Burger." "You wanted to warn them without being suspected yourself so you let their names slip out at Felson's funeral." "Then there where two of us who could have passed the word." " And in the situation in which you found yourself it's evident: that wasn't me." "It's you." "How long have you been working for the Russians?" " Oh... 30 years?" " The son of Sir Alfred..." "Perfect case of treason." " I beg you don't use words like "treason" to me." "Keep them for people like Vlasov, not for me." "I've been a Marxist ever since I was 19." "It's very long fidelity." " Why did you want to see me?" " To offer you a way out." "The Lane and Burger route?" " The same." "I am not going to Moscow." " You realize of course, don't you Bertu, that you can't stay here." "It's prison for life." " And it would work out nicely for you wouldn't?" "Bertu defects and takes all the guilt with him." "Thanks!" "Just the same." "Let's say it is my fidelity to myself." " How would you say in French" ""Think it over"?" " "Réfléchissez"" " Good!" " Réfléchissez!" "Langley, March 15th, 4:30 p.m." " They picked up Bertu with a forged passport and himself messed up in a car." "Accident on the way out." "So, I don't know, what we would have done without you, Vlasov." "13 suicides, pretty well cleaned up Germany." "Bertu, Deval will be tried in France." "Lane and Burger uncovered in England." "Who?" " Jonathan lane, George Burger Foreign Office." " I had no British names on my list." " No, they're on my list." "But I didn't have enough to show to the Foreign Office." "I took advantage of you to test up my hunch." "Turns out I was right though." "They got wind of things and headed for Moscow." "I hope they took warm coats..." "Davies!" "Okay!" "I'll be right there." "Why don't you come along?" "This might interest you." "If this is complete is there any need for me to remain here?" "Six months is a long time for a man to be cut off from the world." "You'll be leaving us today." "But I like you to see the plant before you go." "This is our spectral analysis laboratory." "That's your new long-range bomber." "We know everything about it except the key factor - its range." "We were stymied for one year on it and we got our hands on that." "Its a coat hanger from one of your polar airliners on the Moscow run." "We got word that the machining, you know, the metal shavings from the plane's wings, had been remelted, used to make coat hangers." "These boys were able to determine the composition of the metal alloy in the hanger." "There they calculated the planes weight and range with a full bombload." "This is where we tinker with sight and sound." "No doubt, your people have one of these." " Probably." "What is it?" " We call it the organ." "Can we have a little concert, Pete?" " I have all Mr. Vlasov's tapes, sir." " Sit down, Mr. Vlasov." " Anything special you want him to say, Mr. Davies?" " Yeah." "Tell him how it works, Pete." " Principle is quite simple." "Human vocal cords can make about 50 different sounds and these compose speech." "We separate these sounds and then put them back together as it suits us." "Technically it's a bit more complicated." " The Bible tells us that the very first secret agent disguised himself as a serpent and convinced Eve to taste the Apple." " Nice gadget, ain't?" " Very nice!" "We have one just like it." " I know." "This is Aron Atamian, one of our cut-and-paste experts." "Put together a slideshow you should see." "Sit down." " You remember that?" " Of course." "It's Philip Boyle British intelligence." "We met a few times in Turkey three or four years ago both stationed in Ankara." "I thought he was a very decent chap." " Did you know he'd given us your name for future reference?" "According to Boyle that photo was taken 17 july in 1967 in Turkey near the" "Russian border." "Say Aron, your Turkish, aren't you?" " Armenian, Sir, but I grew up in Turkey." " Yeah, that's right." "You recognize that particular area?" " Sure!" "My parents used to take us on outings to see Mount Ararat, sort of shrine for Armenians." "That's in the background 16,500 feet high." "Where Noah landed the Ark, you know?" " Yeah." "If he'd known it was going to be the father of the Soviet Navy, he'd have picked another mountain." "As we were saying that shot of you and Boyle was taken in Turkey 1967?" "That's right?" " Right!" "And I think you're gonna find this next shot fascinating." "Let me have the blowup of this section." "Notice that the peak is on the left in the shot." "Alright, Tom!" "This Ararat as seen from the Turkish side," "now the peak is on the right." " In that case this picture could not have been taken in Turkey, as you said it was." " In fact the Soviets used this same angle in their official tourist photo with the peak on the left." " Your memory is a little out of focus, comrade." "You didn't meet Boyle in Turkey, you met him in the Soviet Union." "And just what was Philip Boyle, the number two man in British intelligence, doing with you in the Soviet Union?" " Why don't you ask Phil Boyle that?" " It's a little late for that, I'm afraid." "Boyle's vanished in a cloud of vodka." "He's already in Moscow." "I suppose that's a pretty good answer in itself." "For the past five years you and Boyle have been designing the biggest goddamn monkey wrench, has ever been tossed into the Machine." "And you broke a lot of good wheels too, comrade." "All right, Tom." "General von Streilitz," "Zigfrid von Nassau, Adolf Schellenberg," "Professor Manfred Brünig;" "Dr. Joachim Hess," "Frits Bender, Hans Abbot, Horst Felson." "Deval and Lucien Bertu." "You branded them as traitors, every last one of them was clean." "Boyle cut them down." "We bought the murders as a suicides." "I actually threw a wrench into your works, when I added Lane Burger to your list." "Boyle couldn't figure it out, couldn't contact you, so he tipped off his pals, had laid off on Bertu, but he missed." "He panicked and he ran." "Now then, comrade Vlasov, do you still claim that you're not here to act against the interests of the United States?" " I believe, I've already answered that question in front of a lie detector." " That's right!" "You did." " Did you ask the political asylum in the United States?" " Yes." " Did you do so with the intention of acting against the interests of the" "United States?" " No." " Lie number one and the Machine caught it." " My action was not directed against the United States." "It was directed against the tyrants who rule my country." "I love my country." " once again Mr. ..." " Lie number two." "The outrage Patriot bit." "You knew, we would spot the second lie." "So you built a whole ruined career for us to follow." "And by tacking on the second lie to the first one you made them read as one." "You damn near beat the machine, comrade." "End of the tour for you, anyway." " You need two more portraits to complete your albums Mr. Davies." " Whose?" " Mine and yours." " I know." "Six months later." "Somewhere on the border between East and West Germany, at dawn." " Nice to see you, Bertu." "Feeling better?" " Yes." "Almost." "I appreciate your letting me watch this." "Here is a man." " Your man." " I would have bet he'd get the electric chair or 30 years at least." "And here you are trading Vlasov for one of your pilots." " Its fair enough one American for one Russian." " You getting the worst of the deal." " No we're not." "Vlasov isn't worth anything anymore." "The pilot can help us understand how the" "Russians were able to knock down a reconnaissance aircraft flying 60,000 feet - that's the deal!" "I'm sorry!" " I'll miss these." " Let's go." "Check him out, Conley!" " It's him!" " Why did you resign?" " I was dragged through the mud for 6 months and white-washed in the night." "I'm still the man in the Bertu case." "I'm getting out of Paris..." " Yeah." "I'm leaving Washington." "Going to California." " Transfer?" " Job burning." " There goes the next boss of the KGB." "Don't be too sure." "He's finished and he knows it." "He'll get his quota of medals then queitly fade away under wraps." "How come?" "The serpent has it's taste of Edem." "They won't trust him again." "And they are right, aren't they, Davies?" " Its not a bad question." "[E n d ]"