""Who am I then?" ""tell me that first," ""and then if i like being That person, I'll come up." ""if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else."" "Gene, is that you?" "yes, it's me." "Oh, dear boy." "It is a comfort To hear your voice." "Do you realize, Gene, this Is our 17th conversation?" "You are all I do, Gene." "Every six months, I am obliged" "To move to a new apartment." "I settle in, Wait to be contacted," "Only to move on again." "I think you are reason I remain alive." "Gene, the old man Wants you to come home." "?" "You mustn't fear going home, Dear boy." "But i am afraid" "I am bearer of bad news." "?" "?" "Well." "the American military Headquarters in Vietnam, once?" "?" "but now that Was a last-ditch holding area." "to avoid the threat Of surface-to-air missiles... ?" "?" "You're welcome." "McAuliffe." "Mr. McAuliffe, This is Manny Ebbitt" "In the operations center." "What's with The "Mr. McAuliffe," Manny?" "Wanted to make it Official, jack." "Looks like We got a walk-in." "Okay, I'll come over." "last week At the Smithsonian," "This woman strikes up A conversation" "With a Russian diplomat." "They chat, End up having lunch." "Tonight, out of the blue," "The Russian shows up At her doorstep." "How'd he get the address?" "He knew her name." "After a long talk, She decides to trust him" "And lets him come up To her place, and he tells her His whole story." "She agrees to help And calls us." "Gonna go through My underwear, too?" "Ma'am." "I'll be outside If you need me, sir." "Would you mind waiting In the other room?" "I'd mind if i thought Someone would notice." "Good luck, Sergei." "No." "I am" "I'm not wanting that." "Okay." "Let's chat then," "Off the record." "What is your job at the embassy, Mr. Kukushkin?" "Political attaché is my diplomatic cover." "I have rank of captain In KGB." "You may call me Sergei." "And what do you Want with us, Sergei?" "Political asylum in America" "For me, for my wife," "For my 7-years daughter." "What made you decide To come over?" "My wife-- She is heartsick." "She is taking medicine For ma years" "?" "I want her To have good doctor," "American doctor." "She needs surgery?" "That is correct." "Well, why didn't you Come before?" "Why now?" "Borisov, KGB resident In Washington," "Is schoolmate of mine From Lomonosov University." "From him, i know" "KGB has what you call a mole Inside the CIA." "Impossible for me To come over before." "The mole would tell KGB." "Me, my family would be..." "Two days ago," "After much whiskey," "Borisov is telling me Both mole and cutout of mole" "Are out of city." "This is moment I must act." "If you can identify The mole, Sergei," "We could bring you And your family over" "And make sure that The KGB never found you." "i do not think Even resident" "?" "Only that he exists." "But you already know He is not in Washington" "Narrows down list." "And i am able to provide" "Other particulars." "By telling us this mole" "And his cutout Are out of the country," "Pinnacle gives us The first plausible detail." "That could make him A genuine defector." "When's this, um--what name Are we giving this guy?" "Pinnacle." "When's this pinnacle" "Gonna give us Some information, jack?" "Well, he gave me One item," "The code name Of the mole--Sasha." "When we bring the Russian And his family" "To the other side," "He'll give us the first initial Of Sasha's family name," "As well as the dates Of a previous vacation" "That he took." "The dates correspond To a" "A trip that Starik Was on as well." "Pinnacle will give us The corroborating paperwork" "To verify this." "Now with these two pieces Of information," "We should be able to nail His identity cold." "Jim, assessment?" "It is a chance this could be A genuine defection." "But even if he is genuine," "Starik's more likely dangling Some bait in front of my nose." "Well, let's take the worst case." "Let's say pinnacle is bait." "He's offering us the mole, Sasha's identity," "As well as dozens Of other juicy tidbits." "We should be able to separate The wheat from the chaff." "Almost impossible to do." "If pinnacle is real," "We'll need to go through A lengthy process" "To establish this fact." "If he is a dispatched agent," "Starik is going through A great deal of trouble," "And we're going To need to find out why." "We have two weeks, According to pinnacle." "That's when Sasha returns." "Debriefing a defector" "Is an art unto itself." "It's not simply a matter Of asking the right questions," "But not asking the right Questions too quickly" "Very delicate game, Very delicate." "I'd like to bring Someone in on this." "Defections take time, Sergei." "How much time?" "Five, six weeks." "Sasha is back In Washington" "Before five weeks!" "In five weeks, I am dead man!" "Calm down, Sergei." "There is a way out of this." "There is no way Out of coffin." "What should i do?" "Does anyone ever Call you this late?" "Just my mother, it could be her." "Answer it." "But what if it isn't her?" "What do i say?" "Well, don't say anything." "You're a woman having an affair With a married man." "You'll naturally Be evasive, secretive." "Hello?" "can i speak To Pavel Vitrovski?" "No." "There's no one here By that name." "Okay." "Thank you." "You--you're welcome." "Good-bye." "The S. K. is having Her phone number." "They are checking on me to see If there is woman here." "He had an accent." "your people trust you As much as we do." "thank you, Mrs. Ept." "You did very well." "Thanks." "So this is how You play me, jack?" "You make me to give You now everything." "No, not everything." "Just give us the first initial Of Sasha's last name" "And when he was absent From Washington before." "Is everything I have to bargain with!" "How do i know You are not leaving me" "Out in the cold, huh?" "How can i not know?" "You give us Sasha," "You'll never have to worry About your well-being again" "Or that of your wife Or daughter." "How can she visit doctor?" "KGB will get suspicious." "She'll complain Of a toothache." "It will require several visits To a dentist on our payroll." "At the dentist's office," "There will be a top cardiologist From Walter reed hospital" "Waiting for her." "The Coany has roughly 22,000 regular employees" "And 4,000 contract employees." "Clandestine system alone Has 5,000-- 4,000 in Washington," "Another 1,00 Over the globe." "You're loving this, Aren't you, Jim?" "Taking your time," "Drawing it out." "Your moment on the stage" "After years sitting In a dark, little room" "With your little bits Of information." "Torriti," "We'll hear him out." "you will want To hear me out, Harvey," "Because my Tentative conclusion" "Is that pinnacle" "May be that rarest of breeds-- A genuine defector." "You want to walk us Through the information, Jim?" "Information--yes." "Number one" "Pinnacle claims Sasha" "Is a Russian speaker." "Two" "Sasha's last name begins With the letter k." "The computer came back With the names" "Of 244 Russian-speaking Company employees" "Who have the last name Beginning with the letter k," "All of whom are expected To be away from Washington" "Till Sunday," "Which..." "Brings me to the point" "That i have put on The back burner for 13 years." "You need the patience Of a saint" "For counterintelligence," "Nurturing seemingly..." "Meaningless bits of data," "Amassing And collecting thousands" "?" "And creating an interlocking..." "Picture, which really only Comes into focus" "Through your own interpretation." "And all the while, You hear voices" "Whispering behind your back." ""mother's obsessed," They say," ""paranoid." "A conclusion searching For confirmatory evidence."" "Believe me..." "I heard it all." "I heard every word." "The information, mother." "I always knew..." "If we could find Sasha's cutout, We could find Sasha," "And that is what I've been Waiting for all this time." "In 1961," "The FBI stumbled across" "An old communist Named Max Cohen," "A.k.a. Kahn." "Who lived above his store," "Who delivered liquor To hundreds of clients" "In the Washington area." "The cutout went by the name Of Dodgson," "Which curiously..." "Is the real name" "Of Lewis Carroll," "Author of "Alice in Wonderland."" "Makes you wonder if Starik Isn't, like Lewis Carroll," "Creating worlds within worlds" "For all of us To get lost in." "Dodgson got away, but i didn't forget" "?" "Noment." "All these years, Nurturing bits of data," "Seemingly meaningless pieces Of evidence." "You have to have the patience Of a saint." "James." "I looked over Kahn's Delivery invoices" "For the past ten years" "And discovered That sometime in the '50s" "Dodgson had been delivering" "To a double agent," "My friend" "And former colleague Adrian Philby." "With Philby gone," "It seemed logical to suppose" "?" "For Philby's replacement." "What, his replacement?" "Sasha." "Starik knew He could sacrifice Philby." "Sasha was still delivering Valuable information." "Cheking through Kahn's clients" "Who had been on the receiving End of deliveries" "During the previous ten years," "I was able To identify the names" "Of 167 full-time Company employees" "And 64 contract employees." "you matched The liquor delivery list" "Against the names Of company employees" "Who were currently Out of the country" "Whose last names Began with k" "And who spoke Russian?" "That's pretty Damn clever, James." "It seemed too good To be true." "It was." "None of the names Cross-referenced." "It may have looked Like a dead end" "To the ordinary eye," "But not to mine." "Last Saturday, as my wife Was on the telephone" "Making restaurant reservations In her maiden name..." "tonight at 8:00." "Security precautions..." "Under the name Deautremont." "Oh, yes." "Sasha could have a wife." "Yes." "Yes." "Sasha could have his wife Order the liquor from Kahn's" "Using her maiden name." "In the six years Between Philby's disappearance" "And Max Kahn's arrest," "I've compared the maiden names Of the wives" "Dodgson had delivered Liquor to" "Against the suspects" "From the pinnacle leads." "That's brilliant." "So what maiden name?" "You're not going To like it." "What?" "Was it great?" "Tell me everything." "Oh, it was wonderful" "The French countryside, The food, the wine," "Everything except for the part Where father went off" "To get cigarettes And got completely lost." "What happened, daddy?" "Oh, your mother thought I had a brief encounter" "With a local peasant girl," "But really, i just couldn't Understand the directions" "People were giving me." "Mm-hmm." "Well, I'm not quite convinced That he didn't have an affair" "With a French girl." "I can't speak French Well enough to order lunch," "Let alone lure Some stranger into bed." "Mr. Kritzky?" "I've been instructed To hand deliver" "This eyes-only letter To you, sir." "What is it, daddy?" "The director wants To see me right away." "Doesn't say why." "Sir, i have Transportation waiting." "What department Are you with?" "I'm with the department Of internal security, sir." "What's going on, Leo?" "I don't know." "I'm gonna find out." "Erika, will you drive Your mother home?" "Sorry, darlin'." "I'll be home In time for dinner." "Hey!" "What is this?" "Lean forward, Mr. Kritzky," "?" "I will not, You little bast..." "Place your clothes On this table," "One article at a time, Very slowly." "Start with the left shoe." "?" "?" "No talking." "We must search your clothes, Then do a cavity search." "A cavity search?" "This--this is absurd." "You call William Colby, D. C. I., immediately." "You tell him that Leo Kritzky Is being held here." "He'll clear up any confusiving." "?" "Now shall we start again, Mr. Kritzky?" "Your left shoe, Slowly, please." "How about..." "Begin with your father?" "Jim," "It's me, Leo." "Leo Kritzky." "Start with your father." "Can i have Some water, please?" "Water in the bowl." "?" "You're crazy if you think I'm Gonna drink out of a toilet." "When you get thirsty enough, You will." "Bill, for chrissakes, this has Got to be a blind alley." "I've known Leo since Yale." "We rowed together." "We roomed together." "I'm the godfather his children." "I-i-i would stake My life on him." "And what If it's true, jack?" "It isn't." "It can't be true." "All those ops that Went sour on Torriti," "Your assets in Berlin, The professor..." "That ballet dancer--what was Her name?" "Rainbow, sniper?" "Rainbow?" "Kritzky worked With the wiz in the '5" "He knew every detail about Your mission in Budapest, jack." "He was Bissell's right-hand man During the bay of pigs." "Who better?" "Who better To be a KGB mole" "Than the man running The soviet division?" "This kind of thing's Happened before" "Fee was A e slative aide" "?" "?" "Just imagine the kind of inside stuff" "He could have gotten On Vietnam." "Makes me sick To my stomach." "Weeks, months..." "It's really no skin Off my nose." "I'm not in any hurry." "U like to begin With your father," "Or should i Come back tomorrow?" "You son of a bitch." "My father's name Was Abraham Kritzky." "He was born in The Jewish quarter of Vilnius" "In November of 1896," "Emigrated to America In the 1910 pogroms." "Go on." "He got a job" "Working at The triangle shirtwaist factory" "Sewing bands inside hats." "He was there when the famous Fire of 1911 broke out" "And killed 150 seamstresses." "He got out with his sewing Machine strapped to his back" "When firemen hacked open A locked fire door." "Did the experience Make him bitter?" "Yeah." "Of course It made him bitter." "Did it turn him Against capitalism?" "Jim, you know, I-i went over all this" "When i was recruited." "The company knows everything." "There are no secrets." "My father's a socialist." "It's common knowledge." "He was a bleeding heart," "Which wasn't a federal crime?" "Until the house un-American Activities came along." "You were born October 29, 1929," "The day that the-- The day that The stock market crashed." "Are you gonna something into t" "By then, your father Had started a small business." "The crash wiped him out." "Yeah." "The banks Called in his loans." "He'd bought the brownstone On grant street," "And he lost it." "He lost everything." "And then what happened?" "I could come back tomorrow" "After my 11:00 conference call," "If you'd prefer that." "He jumped off The Brooklyn bridge." "They found his body" "Washed up under the pier The next morning." "Did capitalism Kill your father?" "No." "My father Killed himself." "Did capitalism Kill your father?" "Capitalism in the '20s and '30s Created conditions" "That caused a great many people To kill themselves," "Including the capitalists," "Who threw themselves out Wall street windows in 1929." "Are you gonna interrogate Their sons?" "Hmm." "Jim," "My wife is gonna Start asking questions" "When i don't turn up At home." "By now the director Will have phoned Adele" "And apologized profusely For packing you off to Asia" "On such short notice." ""something's come up," He will have told her." ""you'll untandi t Provide details, Mrs. Kritzky."" "Your wife will take The news bravely, of course." "She will inquire" "As to when you Might be returning." "Well, when might He be returning?" "uh, it could Take some time." "The director" "I've instructed him To maintain radio silence," "So he may not be able to speak With you anytime soon." "But rest assured, i will call U personally, Mrs. Kritzky," "When i have more To tell you." "She might say, "will he Be in any danger?" Will he be in any danger?" "None whatsoever." ""none whatsoever," The director will assure her." "You have my personal word On that." ""you have my personal word" "Thank you,." "mommy!" "?" "?" "Papa." "Yevgeny." "?" "olive?" "Afraid I'm out at the moment." "Twist?" "Haven't got that, Either, old boy." "Got ice" "Plenty of that in Moscow." "Starik sends you around" "To check me." "Eugene--is that what You call yourself?" "No." "Starik doesn't Even know that I'm here." "I brought you these." "Oh." "Well, that's awfully kind Of you, Eugene." "I do love to check up On the ladies from Savile row." "Good lord." "Prices have skyrocketed." "How's Russia treating you?" "I can get anything I want in Moscow." "Easy as falling off a log." "Just draw up A shopping list" "M-m-mango chutney From Harrods" "And beluga From the Caspian." "It's more upscale than Your average English slammer," "Mind you." "I first saw the light Of communism" "Way back in Cambridge," "But never In my wildest dreams" "Did i imagine I'd be living here." "I never thought I'd be living in America." "They tell me i need Round-the-clock minding" "To prevent mi6 From knocking me off," "But what they're Really afraid of" "Is that Jimbo Angleton May have turned me" "Ple agt." "By god, if i was A triple agent," "I'd be up nights Trying to figure out" "Which side I'm working for." "Starik didn't send you To check up on me?" "I miss" "The great game, Eugene." "Well, thanks For the drink." "Come back and see me again Before you go b-back," "Won't you?" "Love to chat about What's happening these days" "In the colonies, As it were." "Yes, i-I'd like that." "Good-bye." "Let me take a look at This hero of mother Russia." "Not changed, Yevgeny." "For a long time, i have Been planning kholstomer." "Since the 1950s," "The KGB has been retaining Hard currency" "From the sales Of our national gas Coany," "As well as oil sales abroad," "And placing the proceeds Into shell companies." "E amount in these shells" "Now total more Than 63 billion" "In American dollars." "$63 billion?" "The beauty of kholstomer Is that the dollars" "Are held in banks In the city of New York." "The abrupt sale Of our $63 billion" "Will suck in people And institutions," "Speculators from All over the world," "Asian and European Central banks" "And the American Stock market itself." "?" "Yes." "Can you see It now, Yevgeny?" "Americans, British, French" "The whole Western world" "Will suffer An economic holocaust," "And the peoples Of these nation rising up" "To demand a government Of equality of workers." "All these nations crying out For change, Yevgeny," "For communism!" "With the CIA crippled, American minds will be open" "To our campaign Of communist ideals," "And the soviet union's example Of equality, commonality" "And hope for the good Within us all" "Will shine like a beacon For the world to see." "I know That you are lonely," "Homesick and at times," "You may wonder If this is all worth it." "It is, Yevgeny." "And the soviet people Need you to go back," "Back to the front lines For one last battle." "?" "do the initials "l." "K."" "In the upper right-hand corner Look familiar?" "Jim," "I think That i need a doctor," "Because i-- When i pull on my hair," "It comes out in clumps." "They never turn The lights off," "And it's driving me insane." "Your name turns up In a great" "A great number Of op orders" "?" "?" "Let's go thrhem" "One by one." "Ease, please stop." "Just..." "Please stop." "Please stop." "Did you betray jack McAuliffe's Assets in Berlin" "Code name rainbow, Code name sniper." "God, no." "He's my best friend." "Ah." "Did you betray the Cuban at the bay ?" "They turn these lights up Brighter when you leave," "And it's burning Right through my eyelids," "And i can't sleep." "Please, Jim." "Just let me sleep." "I-i can't sleep." "Oh, please, Let me sleep, Jim." "Only tell the truth," "And I'll let you sleep As long as you want." "So what am i supposed To do, jack?" "I can't put a time limit On mother." "It's impossible." "He's been chasing shadows Since Philby was exposed." "He's decimated the company's Entire soviet division" "In this obsession." "We don't even know if Sasha Exists outside of his head." "Jack, if you don't believe at ests," "Then your defector pinnacle Can't be the real deal." "So which is it," "?" "?" "But the most deceptive orchids That survive." "Moecies" "Depend upon their ability To misrepresent themselves" "?" "Nsts." "?" "?" "And then spreading their pollen To other orchids." "this Trichocereus orchid" "So perfectly mimics" "The underside Of a female fly," "Down to the hairs And even the odor." "It actually triggers A mating response" "In passing male flies." "Jim, i need to know if Your judgment has been clouded." "Jack..." "Deception is everything." "It's an agart, arcane," "?" "Derestimated by kings And leaders." "Our very survival" "Depends upon our ability To see the truth" "That lies behind This subterfuge." "Counterintelligence Is the weapon" "We will put our faith in" "In order to win This cold war." "Leo would never betray us." "As i once thought" "My best friend, A double agent?" "That's absurd beyond belief." "But i was deceived." "We were all deceived By his," "?" "?" "Did you want him Telling the world" "At ima ?" "That James Angleton was giving Him top-secret files?" "?" "?" "Maybe you warned Philby." "Thou would want." "Told him to run." "The damage was done," "But he could do a lot more Damage to you, Jim," "A lot more." "All those lunches At la Niçoise." "LKG secrets That went from your mo" "Starik's ears-- Scandalous." "?" "?" "Well, my, my." "You certainly are The sorcery's apprentice." "Before Adrian..." "Betrayed me," "I always knew where i was." "Now I'm lost." "We're all lost, jack." "We're lost in the wilderness Of mirrors." "my superior" "He had much to drink Three nights before." "He left safe open." "While he was sleeping, ok inside files." "I see something that Might help you, Mr. Jack." "What'd you see?" "Sasha went On previous trip" "To meet with Starik," "A trip in 1972 To nova Scotia." "Do you know this place?" "Yeah." "I know nova Scotia." "I check files." "Starik went on trip" "In autumn of 1972." "You see if perhaps dates Match ip" "Your man in custody took." "You check files." "Thanks." "I'll check the files." "Angleton, you bastard!" "Get me food and water In here now!" "Good cop?" "No." "He's genuinely upset." "He still believes He's innocent." "If he'd just Accept the truth," "He'd be wringing His neck right now." "Listen to me." "This doesn't have to end" "With you spending the rest Of your days in prison." "?" "Mmm." "It's delicious." "Cold." "Do you believe it?" "Do you believe I'm Sasha?" "We know it, Leo." "I'm here to offer You a deal." "How do you know I'm Sasha?" "We have A Russian defector--pinnacle." "And has pinnacle Identified me by name?" "He said, "Leo Kritzky's Sasha"?" "He said that Sasha's last name Begins with the letter k." "He said he speaks Fluent Russian." "He said that the Russian Spymaster Starik" "Was just in the south of France Visiting an agent." "In September of '72," "Sasha met Starik In nova Scotia." "I was on a bicycle trip With Adele in nova Scotia" "In September of '72." "You know that." "Yes, Leo." "Did it ever occur to you" "That Starik was feeding you A phony defector" "With phony information?" "It would be easy to look At my daily schedule" "And concoct some kind Of scenario." "No." "There are Too many coincidences." "Did you flutter him?" "We will flutter him when We get him over for good." "Pinnacle will never take A lie detector test." "He'll be run over by a car Or mugged in an alleyway" "Or whisked back To mother Russia" "?" "That sounds plausible," "But he won't be fluttered," "Because he will Never be brought in." "He won't be brought in, Because he's a phony defector" "Sent to convince Angleton That I'm Sasha." "If you're not Sasha, Leo," "That means He's still out there." "Yes." "If that's true," "Then why hasn't pinnacle Been put on ice by the KGB?" "?" "And Sasha, if he exists, Knows it." "?" "L init" "Starik, the defector, Sasha" "And they're all Manipulating the mind" "Of one paranoid dinosaur-- James Jesus Angleton." "Who do you believe?" "I was your damn crewmate!" "I believe pinnacle, Leo." "Leo," "Look at the mess That you're in." "Think about your family." "Admit it, And we'll double you." "We will turn you Against Arik." "The only way I'm leaving This room is in a bag" "Or walking out that door A free man." "Jack," "?" "there's no reason To think he was coerced" "Into getting on the plane." "E bastard Just up and le" "?" "Ban" "And demanded Political asylum." "The fact that he didn't Speaks for itself." "He was going Of his own free will." "Yes." "Well, that's the way It was supposed to appear." "The safety of his wife And daughter" "Was being held over his head As a threat." "He had to go back..." "Yeah?" "Or else he would Lose his family forever." "Our informant At Moscow's airport" "Has positively Identified Kukushkin." "So he's in Moscow For certain?" "Not only that," "The informant says That two men grabbed him," "Brought him to a car and placed Him inside none too gently." "Oh, god." "We were so careful." "We have Sasha locked up, So how did they know?" "How in the hell Did they know?" ""traitor Kukushkin trial-- Spied for Americans," "Betrayer Of the motherland."" "You'd think It'd get easier over time." "What would?" "Losing people..." "People Who trusted you..." "People you cared about." "What should We do now, jack?" "There's nothing We can do." "Let it go." "Can you do that, Manny?" "McAuliffe." "I thought you'd want To know, jack." "We just got word That Kukushkin" "Was executed this morning By firing squad." "Okay, Manny." "Thanks." "Whew." "What the hell, Harvey?" "I didn't know You took up golf." "It's one of the things You do" "When you're about To be retired." "Have a seat, kid." "Get yourself a drink." "Get one for me, too." "It's 11:00 In the morning, Harvey." "I love the fresh air." "Ha." "I'm getting' healthy." "So..." "What brings you to my little Retirement community?" "Something woke me up Last night" "Out of a sound sleep." "It was two things Actually." "First, Angleton Hasn't broken Leo." "What else?" "Well, number two is actually Something Leo said to me" "That--that stuck with me." "He said, "pinnacle Would never be polygraphed."" "He said Kukushkin Would be hit by a car" "Or mugged in an alley" "With some excuse That seemed reasonable." "So Leo was right." "Yeah." "And now this thing is-- Is eating' away at me" "Night and day." "Was Kukushkin Really sent to me" "Just to convince Angleton That Leo was Sasha?" "To keep the heat Off the real Sasha?" "Yeah, was i an insect To one of these orchids" "That--that Angleton Talks about," "Lured by pinnacle To finger the wrong guy?" "Ugh." "I think it stinks." "So now what?" "You want to know if Kukushkin Was really executed" "Or if the whole thing Was a sham." "How do we know It even happened?" "All--all we have Is "Pravda" to tell us." "And if Kukushkin Is still alive?" "Kukushkin was A disinformation agent" "Sent to frame Leo, And Leo is innocent." "Then the real Sasha's Still out there somewhere." "Exactly." "I got to go talk To the rabbi." "these photographs Are Kukushkin," "His wife and his daughter." "And here's His last known address" "Safe house in Moscow." "But if he Was not executed," "If this whole thing Was..." "Theater," "There ought to be A Kukushkin" "Out there somewhere." "If your people Can find out anything," "My people would be Very grateful." "How grateful, Harvey?" "Would the whereabouts Of Klaus Barbie" "Be of any interest To you?" "Ooh." "the rabbi's people Used a tried-and-true method." "They got the forwarding address" "Off a letter sent To Kukushkin's old address." "Quite simply." "Starik knew i was getting close to Sasha," "So what does he do?" "He gives us what we believe" "Is a genuine defector." "And just when I'm getting close," "He pulls the rug out from under me." "Makes me believe" "That I've got the wrong Sasha," "That the real Sasha is still out there somewhere." "So, of course," "We put Leo Kritzky back to work," "And Starik has got his mole back in operation," "Created and executed" "By a grand master spy." "Absolutely brilliant." "Jim," "Leo Kritzky will be released." "Leo Kritzky..." "Is Sasha." "Leo," "Angleton..." "All of us" "Have made a horrible mistake." "Does that mean i get to go home?" "Yeah, buddy." "Home." "What the hell were you guys doing?" "They were protecting the company" "From its enemies." "All right." "All right." "Leo Kritzky's devotion to duty," "His loyalty to the company and his grace under fire" "Have set standard for all of us" "And for future Generations of CIA officers." "Now it's the nature of things that only a handful of us" "Are aware of the details of your ordeal, Leo," "But all of us owe you a debt of gratitude." "When i came on board as a young man," "It was with the intention" "Of serving the country whose system of governance" "Seemed to offer the best hope for the world." "I've since come to understand" "That serving in the trenches of the Colr" "Is no less important." "And as john Milton said," ""they also serve" "Who only stand and wait."" "I appreciate this..." "All of you." "Now I'm gonna get back to my desk" "And get on with the tedious day-to-day business" "Of winning the cold war." "Leo, welcome back." "If you never forgive me, Leo, I understand." "There's nothing to forgive." "You're my best friend." "?" "I, uh..." "I have an announcement to make." "James Angleton," "To my great regret," "Made his intentions of retirement clear to me" "Earlier this morning." "I don't need to tell anyone here" "That his contributions to the company" "Are nothing short of legendary." "Jim, any, uh..." "Any parting words?" "Lenin once said," ""the West are wishful thinkers," ""so we will give them" "What they want to think."" "The soviets have a master plan" "Feeding layer upon layer of disinformation" "To the whishful thinkers of the West to make them think" "That we are winning the cold war." "Nothing..." "Could be..." "Further from the truth, gentlemen." "Over the last 20 years, the CIA has transformed" "Fr ark of informants," "Double agents, caseworkers" "To a shadow of the former self." "All the handiwork..." "Of a soviet mole inside the CIA" "Named Sasha." "Starik and Sasha have made certain" "The world view of America has shifted" "From a beacon of hope and justice..." "To a, uh..." "Tyrannical, power-mad," "Colonialist juggernaut." "Of course, these facts" "Were not handed to me on a silver platter." "I teased them." "I ased them from the wildeess" "With excruciating attention" "To the minutiae." "It takes the patience of a saint." "Philby, the KGB, Sasha" "They've tried to discredit and destroy me for years," "And now, of course, they have." "Gentlemen, you do not realize" "That you are surrounded by a wilderness of deception." "Thank you, Jim." "We will try our best" "To muddle through without you." "You will be missed." "I know it's you, Sasha." "The rabbi found Kukushkin" "Far too easily." "Starik never would have been that sloppy..." "Never." "I bear you no hard feelings, Jim." "Yes?" "whatever you said" "Scared the hell out of them, comrade Starik." "They should be scared." "The Gorbachev is a pawn." "He's being used by the Americans." "The politburo are terrified the Americans will wipe out" "Our second strike mobile train platforms," "Leaving us vulnerable to invasion." "How did you do it?" "Well, the facts spoke for themselves." "The Americans' "able archer" plan" "Is for a preemptive nuclear strike." "I embellished nothing." "The cold war must continue, comrade colonel." "I know how your mind works." "I am not swayed as easily as the rest of them," "But i must congratulate you, Starik." "You would have made a brilliant chess grand master" "If you ever played." "But i did." "I did." "hello, Eugene." "Sasha." "Starik has convinced Gorbachev" "That America is planning a first strike" "In an operation known as "able archer."" "You and i both know the whole idea is pure nonsense." "The Russians have a mobile second strike capacity" "Aboard railroad flatcars-- 12 trains with 4 icbms a piece" "Shuttling around 300 miles of track." "The Americans know full well that a second strike launched" "From the Russian rail platforms would annihilate" "The eastern seaboard of the united states." "And what happens to the world then, Eugene?" "I don't know, Sasha." "You told me long ago" "What Starik said to you." "That we should promote" "The Generosity of the human spirit." "So tell me, Eugene," "What does launching a preemptive strike" "To provoke nuclear holocaust" "Have to do with promoting" "The Generosity of the human spirit?" "I'm--I'm trying to make sense of this, ladies." "Well, the new computers can analyze so much data" "That we can now run all the old leads" "That were never followed up." "Because it was just too time-consuming." "Mm-hmm." "And there just weren't enough man hours" "Woman hours--and the stuff just laid around forever." "So we analyzed old transcripts" "Of radio Moscow from the 1950s..." "Mm-hmm, to look for patterns or repetitions or sentences," "Phrases that might appear out of context..." "Under the assumption KGB agents abroad" "Might be receiving coded messages from these shows." "Yes, I-i get that part." "Well, we found something in the old transcripts" "A pattern in a nightly quiz show." "You did?" "I adored "Alice in Wonderland"" "As a kid, and in the 23 years" "This radio program has been airing" "That's 1,200 50-minute broadcasts..." "Yeah." "The Lewis Carroll quotations have appeared 24 times." "Now they instantly caught my eye," "Because i could answer all the quotations." "No, the Russians wouldn't be so sloppy" "As to use a radio program to broadcast messages." "Of course not," "But we learned" "In all of our counterintelligence seminars" "That sometimes these codes are merely recognition symbols" "Special sentences intended for the agent" "To let him know that there'll be something" "Appearing for him later on in the program." "And after every Lewis Carroll quotation," "There was an announcement of a winning lottery number." "Huh." "Angleton once told me that soviet agents" "Were given American $10 bills" "To use in some kind of a-a code system" "That we just couldn't break." "We think they took the serial number off of" "Off the bill and subtracted it from a lottery number" "That was broadcast on the radio." "Presto." "They'd wind up with a phone number of a contact." "I still don't see how you get a phone number" "Unless you have the particular serial number of the $10" "You found the bill?" "Not the actual bill, director." "My team hunted down all the serial numbers" "From every $10 bill printed" "Between 1945 and 1951" "The likely date that a soviet agent" "Would have used for a code bill." "Six years of bills?" "Over $67 million worth." "We narrowed it down by assuming" "That the soviet agent would have lived in Washington," "So we used area code 202 as a Rosetta stone." "The computer told us" "That the 8-digit serial number on the bill" "Would have to begin with a three and a zero" "Cut down the number of bills to a manageable size" "It was a matter of burning the midnight oil" "To narrow it down to a single $10 bill." "We took the phone numbers" "We got from the Russian radio program," "Matched 'em with phone records from D.C." "We came up with a polish immigrant." "She's been moving to a new apartment" "With a new phone number almost every year" "Since 1955." "She's 69 years old," "Never had a job, and it's not clear" "Where she gets money to pay the rent." "We think she's the go-between," "And i think she will lead us to Sasha's cutout." "maybe she's dead." "Let's go check and see if she's dead." "She's not ad." "I heard the toilet flush a half-hour ago." "she's got her favorite soap operas" "Oh, wait a minute." "Keys." "Look, I think she's going for the door." "She's saying good-bye to the cat." "?" "thanks." "She's at the checkout counter." "I got it!" "Give me the camera." "Yep." "Here." "One more." "Yep." "Got it." "she's half a block away." "Do you want me to slow her down?" "Negative." "We're out." "Hand me the picture." "You got it?" "Let's go." "We turned her place upside down," "Found these" "Coded phrases their coded equivalents" "And, uh, one-time cipher pads" "To break the codes." "So now we're waiting for Sasha's cutout to call." "I'm also gonna need some repairs" "On a 1952..." "Bentley." "The windshield is cracked and, uh..." "Needs to be replaced." "And the 1957 Bel Air g.s..." "Got him!" "Payphone-- 8th street and 11th." "Is no longer for sale in case interested parties ask." "I will pass message along, Gene." "N. S. A. is working on the codes" "Phone call right now." "I think it's best we wait" "And see if the cutout calls back." "And if he doesn't call, pick her up and flip her?" "No, she could lead us to Sasha." "A cut out who moves around for 23 years" "Who has his own cutout to shield his identity" "This guy's too important," "Whoever he is." "How many people have you shown this to?" "No one." "Just you." "I can't make heads or tails of it." "It's a list of contact numbers" "That don't exist as far as i can tell" "And a series of dates." "The numbers are not contact numbers." "What are they?" "Bank accounts..." "And swift codes." "What you are seeing here, jack," "Are the threads" "Of kholstomer." "?" "Kholstomer's $63 billion" "Thatld have an effect." "It's the panic that would ensue from a sudden sell-off." "If--if fund managers and central banks" "And foreign entities get the impression" "That the dollar is in a freefall," "Kholstomer could have devastating consequences" "Worldwide." "At the federal reserve to back the dollar on d-day." "Flood the media with inside stories" "About federal reserve's resolve" "To support the dollar." "Let the world's financial community know" "The reserve has an almost unlimited ability" "To back American currency." "Will that be enough?" "Angleton said it himself" ""prevent the panic, and we crush kholstomer."" "And what about Sasha?" "Won't he know," "Warn the Russians not to implement kholstomer?" "Sasha won't know as long as this stays in this room." "why not let it leave the room?" "Leak it to the company." "Let Sasha know we're onto kholstomer." "Let him postpone it." "No." "We can't let Sasha know." "Kholstomer will always be out there to come back and haunt us." "We need to deal with this now." "Eugene, is that you?" "Yes, it's me." "Oh, I didn't think i would hear from you" "Until next month, my dear boy." "Do you need more repairs for your..." "Starting trace." "You have to send a warning" "To the old man immediately." "I'm listening." "The other party knows about his intent to sell" "The 220 seb coupe Mercedes with the white finish." "They know about the price, the date of the sale," "All of it." "He has to postpone..." "He's on east 8th and maple crest." "I will let him know immediately." "this time we got him. what's his name?" "Renting an apartment under the name of Ludwig." "We're checking background." "He's careful." "Switched cabs twice and took two different buses coming home." "And the old lady?" "We nabbed her before she could spill the beans." "With Lutwidge's contact gone, won't he get suspicious?" "I'm really not too comfortable" "Leaving this guy out there for so long, jack." "Let's wait just a little longer." "Tell me about this cutout, jack." "Dr. Kramer, phone... dr." "Kramer, phone call on line two." "He hasn't left his apartment in two days." "Couldn't get a clear photo of him yet." "Neighbors think he might be a writer." "He tends to keep to himself." "well, we" "We looked in the library of congress" "To see if he had written anything" "Or published anything." "It turns out the only thing that came back was, uh..." "Under his name was "Alice in Wonderland"" "And "through the looking glass."" "What was this cutout's name?" "He goes by the name of Lutwidge, Gene Lutwidge." "The writer of "Alice in Wonderland"..." "Lewis Carroll-- we know." "Lewis Carroll's pen name..." "Is Charles..." "Lutwidge..." "Dodgson." "Dodgson?" "The delivery boy" "We never caught... who is it, Adrian?" "From Kahn's liquor shop..." "That same delivery boy, jack," "Who made deliveries" "To other people." "Leo was cleared." "Not by me, he wasn't, jack." "You came to me for advice." "Snatch him up." "snatch Dodgson up now." "Pick him up." "Mr. Lutwidge, you are gonna be taken to a secure" "Yevgeny?" "Well, jack, you can't still be mad" "About that raccoon coat." "Oh, my god." "I'm going to say a name to you, Leo." "Okay." "Yevgeny Tsipin." "Yevgeny?" "He, um..." "Slept with my girlfriend at Yale." "Did you know that?" "We just arrested him for espionage" "Right here in D.C." "You're joking." "Yevgeny's a spy?" "We think he's Sasha's cutout." "Wow." "Yevgeny was the delivery boy" "From Kahn's liquor store." "Yevgeny delivered your liquor," "Delivered it to your house, Leo!" "You're telling me that if he was at this door," "You wouldn't recognize him?" "Are you trying to tell me this is just a coincidence?" "Relax, jack," "I can explain." "Okay, please do." "Please do, Leo," "Because, god help me, i got you" "Out of Angleton's prison, and if i was wrong, Leo," "If i was wrong, and you killed the Cubans," "And you--you betrayed the Hungarians," "And if you killed Lily, Leo," "If you killed Lily," "I don't know what the hell i will do to you." "Look, you were Yevgeny's friend, too." "I'm not accusing you of being Sasha." "Yeah, you and Yevgeny have shared a girlfriend" "Stella Bledsoe." "I ran a check on her, Leo." "I never forgot her name." "She was an American communist" "Who got caught a while down the road" "For trying to recruit an undercover FBI agent." "She kept tabs on Yevgeny at Yale," "And she recruited you, Leo, didn't she?" "Coach waltz recruited us, jack." "Coach waltz recruited us to the company!" "Stella recruited you to the KGB." "Tell me Stella didn't recruit you!" "Sasha." "I need an ambulance" "To 1544 victory lane." "A man's been shot." "Jack, i never took a penny." "I want you to know that." "I did it because i believed in serving the country whose" "System of government offered the best hope for the future." "That system was socialism, jack." "Adelle--she knew, didn't she?" "Yes, she did, and I'm not proud of it." "I was assigned to her to get secrets out of her father," "But guess what?" "I fell in love with her, jack." "I did." "I swear." "You are scum, Leo!" "The company trained secret police in Argentina," "Chile, Iran, Iraq, Dominican Republic." "The list is as long as my arm." "This is the business we're in." "So here we are now." "You think this is what i had in mind when i joined?" "Do you think this is what i signed up for?" "You're a hero to me." "I'm sorry, buddy." "I wanted to protect my children." "That's why i stayed-- to protect my kids." "You're a traitor, Leo!" "Leo!" "Go to hell!" "paramedics." "Anyone in here?" "Anyone here?" "Harvey?" "the extraordinary if restrained action taken in the Persian gulf early this morning was overshadowed through the day by scenes such as wall street has never witnessed as the Dow Jones industrials took off on a fear-fed free fall to close down" "a record 508.32 points." "panicked traders worked through lunch hours in a desperate but losing attempt to keep up with tickers that rolled up an all-time high volume." "CBS news looks at this devastating day for the market." "as the bell tolled at the end..." "So how bad was the fallout?" "It made a ripple, but America always bounces back." "We traced the cash back to the KGB connections" "Central foreign banks and the agents of influence" "That Starik's been using all these years." "You should have been there, jack." "Tessa and Vanessa went ballistic." "They tracked down a hundred banks" "That had major influences on the stock markets." "we knew that our target of five or six banks" "With connections to kholstomer" "Would be in there somewhere." "In the end," "We had to call in the only person in the CIA" "Who would be able to recognize the invisible threads" "Between the disparate names on the list." "He narrowed down the list to five bankers" "In different parts of the world." "All these guys had connections to the KGB" "At some point in their life," "But it was only Angleton who could see" "Past the forest for the trees." "The first target was Tokyo bank international." "another bank on the London exchange." "The next two Angleton identified" "As heads of prominent banks in Saudi Arabia and Johannesburg," "Both with powerful influences on their exchanges." "The last guy, maybe the ringleader" "That was Harvey's department." "i recognized the name of a bastard" "Who worked with the soviets before the war." "He was running Banco Ambrosiano" "Until it collapsed in the '80s." "Disappeared for a while" "Only to turn up as Banco di Santo Spírito" "With a whole new disguise" "And even more power than before." "He was running the Vatican bank." "we think that's where Starik" "Was laundering his funds." "Those Russian bastards were so naive." "They actually thought $63 billion" "Would have an impact on the market." "The plan might have worked in the '50s,but now..." "On average, the daily turnover" "Is $1.9 trillion..." "Kholstomer is over." "It's finished." "Why would i want to help the CIA, jack?" "Because you'll rot for the rest of your life" "In your cell, Yevgeny." "No one will know." "No one will care." "We'll bury you in a pauper's grave." "Not even a going away party" "For an old schoolmate?" "I want you to find him for me." "Who?" "You know who." "Now what makes you think that i know where he is?" "We'll release you-- time served," "Send you back to crumbling mother Russia." "The KGB will keep you on ice for a while." "That's par for the course," "But they'll let you once they know" "You have no agenda." "When that happen get in touch with Leo," "Then contact us and let me know where he is." "It's a simple assignment..." "No shortwave radios, no codes to decipher." "Are--you're actually serious about this." "Why in the hell would i do that, jack?" "The KGB is trying desperately" "To hold on to its control," "Even as Gorbachev brings us closer to détente." "We have some very disgruntled KGB employees" "?" "All looking for asylum," "All bringing actual information." "The great game is coming to a close, Yevgeny." "Gorbachev released 3,00isoners of the state" "Last October." "Azalia Ivanova was in that group." "After rattling around in prisons" "And insane asylums outside of Moscow," "She served 21 years in a Siberian gulag." "And i have something else." "This is her arrest and deportation order" "Straight from the Kremlin." "She was not given a trial." "It's signed by a " P. Zhilov."" "I would like you to meet an old friend" "Your mother's" " Pavel Zhilov." ""Starik" to my friends." "after the fall of the Berlin wall, soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U. S. President George Bush met in Malta." "the historical summit was a turning point in east-West relations and viewed as the official end of the cold war." "the meetings have continued with vows of friendship and cooperation replacing antagonism." "the world pulled back from the fears of nuclear annihilation that prevailed in the '60s and '70s." "however, rumblings of discontent have been heard from soviet hard-liners within the politburo who feel Gorbachev is weakening" "Russia's stability as a world superpower." "Hello, Sasha." "Or are you back to Yevgeny again?" "Come to keep me company?" "You're not doing a very good job" "Of hiding out these days." "What's the point?" "How did you find me anyway?" "KGB." "I told them i wanted to, uh... ?" "And they didn't seem to care." "Nobody cares about me anymore, Yevgeny." "Someone from Gorbachev's inner circle" "Occasionally asks me my opinion" "About something going on in America." "Somebody has replaced us on the front lines now." "Gorbachev's corroded the power of the KGB." "The KGB are chomping at the bit" "To get rid of him," "Get back to their old ways." "They can't decide if he's trying" "To reform the communist system" "Or do away with it entirely." "It's not the Russia i grew up in." "It's not the ideal i fought for all these years." "Jack wanted me to find you." "I thought this was a social visit." "Jack's obviously got something that you want," "Or you wouldn't be here." "It's nice of you to let me know." "?" "?" "It's as if uncle's mind has left him" "the soviet army is on the streets of Moscow... the worst fears of supporters of democracy have now been realized." "Yeah?" "It's a coup d'état, Ebby." "I just got word that Kryuchkov" "Still has Gorbachev in a dacha" "Loaded up on vodka and pills." "Coup leaders are telling the world that Gorbachev" "Is medically unfit to lead the country." "It's all crumbing around him." "What's the word on the streets, jack?" "This is an opportunity." "To do what?" "To back Yeltsin." "And Gorbachev, whether or not he gets out of this thing" "Has lost his balls in the coup, Ebby." "He's been castrated in the eyes of the people." "But this guy..." "Yeltsin could do it." "Yeah, he wants liberal reform." "The heart of the people in his hands." "He can bring democracy to Russia if we're there" "To support him." "If he can take power." "Yeah, if." "Try to give me reports on the hour." "Find out what you can." "Yeah, will do." "...the movement has spoke to other cities and districts across the country have poured into the streets in a desperate last-minute attempt to demonstrate their support for democracy in a country that has seen so little of it over the years." "the question on everyone's mind is the location and condition of president Gorbachev himself." "rumors of his arrest have swept through" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "Yeltsin!" "You should be more careful, comrade." "?" "Do you still dislike summer so very much?" "Yes," "I still dislike summer." "A face i never thought i would see." "Do you have time" "To hear an apology from a friend?" "Russia has changed." "I can feel it all around me." "Makes me want to..." "Makes me want to keep living." "I'm glad for you, Azalia." "For me, there's, uh..." "Very little to live for..." "Except for you." "I'm trying to find a way to hate you..." "Hate you for leaving me the way you did..." "But i cannot." "I cannot, Yevgeny," "Even after all these years." "Don't, Yevgeny." "Please." "Is?" "It is--it is a source of pain to me" "To?" "?" "To think of the years i" "I spent in the gulag," "Wondering if you were still alive..." "Hoping." "Can we not try?" "We can try." "Yevgeny..." "We can try." "Get it done, sport?" "He was already dead." "I wanted to." "I wanted to kill him." "But..." "I just couldn't." "Oh, you're a better man than me, sport." "So the great game goes on" "With or without us." "Ohh." "Without us, I guess." "Think we made a difference, Harvey," "Any difference at all?" "God, I hope so, sport." "No, nowadays people have short memories." "They?" "You and me, kid-- we put our warm bodies" "On the firing line," "And we turned 'em back." "You truly believe that?" "You bet i believe it." "Something?" "Otherwise what was it all about?" "It was about the good guys beating the bad guys..." "Uh-huh." "But we sure screwed up along the way." "Yeah, but we screwed up a lot less than they did," "Which is why we won?" "Yeah, the--the soviet union wasn't a country." "It was a--it was a metaphor" "For an idea that looked good on the drawing board," "But in practice, it was flawed." "And let me tell you something'." "A metaphor is a lot harder to slay than a country," "And we clobbered them in thend." "Yeah." "You got to remember what it was all about." "It was always black and white, kid" "Right versus wrong." "There were good guys, and there were bad guys." "Which side were we again, Harvey?" "We?"