iron legends, 27
ISIS, 379
Ivan the Terrible, 27
James Bond (character), 31, 34, 61, 224
Japan, 33, 73
Jobs, Steve, 245–46
Joint Intelligence Committee (UK), 350
Kacchia-Patel, Amit, 206
Kappes, Steve, 115
Kapustin, Pavel (possible real name of Christopher Metsos), 182
Karetnikov, Alexey, 211–12, 269
Karla (character), 54
Kennedy, John F., 357
Kennedy School of Government (Harvard), 66–67
KGB, 25, 33, 35, 52–57, 306, 330, 347. See also FSB
Abel and, 309
array of tricks used by, 171
coup of 1991 and, 12–19
dissolution and remaking of, 22–23, 49
First Chief Directorate (see First Chief Directorate of KGB)
handover of US embassy surveillance plans, 21–22
Litvinenko in, 150
moles of (see moles)
Ninth Directorate, 157
political warfare and, 354, 357
Poteyev in, 70
Putin in, 8, 34, 108, 303, 395
“school for saboteurs” of, 70
Second Chief Directorate, 51, 54
Shebarshin as temporary head of, 17, 19
spies for US in, 49, 51–52
Western spies tracked by, 11, 12
Khrushchev, Nikita, 92–93
Kidd, Sean, 112, 113
Kobaladze, Yuri, 308
Kohler, Alan, 94–95, 97, 104, 218, 273, 296, 395
konservy, 35
Kouzminov, Alexander, 45
Kovtun, Dmitry, 157, 158, 161–62
Krakow, Robert, 284
Krassilnikov, Rem, 54
Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 12–13
kurators, 26
Kursk (submarine), 110
Kuschenko, Ana. See Chapman, Anna
Kutsik, Mikhail “Michael Zottoli,” 186–88, 194–96, 198–99, 230
arrest of, 269–70
employment of (Russia), 310
employment of (US), 221–23
politics of, 222
refusal to make admissions, 281
surveillance of, 222–23
Vienna spy swap and, 296
Kuznetsov, Nikolai, 33–34
Lambert, Ian, 29
Lambert, Laurie, 29
laptops, 198, 200, 205–7, 249, 250, 256
Latin American cover identities, 326
Lavrov, Sergey, 71
Lazaro, Juan, 86. See also Vasenkov, Mikhail A.
Lazaro, Juan, Jr., 87, 270, 289, 315
Lebedev, Alexander, 307
le Carré, John, 19, 54, 56, 113, 242
Lefortovo prison, 177
legends, 47, 136, 137, 322, 397
defined, 26
iron, 27
Leno, Jay, 3
Libya, 338–39
Line N officers, 72–73, 174, 193, 211, 325
Line VKR, 72, 73
Line X, 72
Lithuania, 20–21
“Little Green Men,” 344
Litvinenko, Alexander, 65, 140, 280
Blowing Up Russia, 155
British citizenship of, 154
flight to UK, 110
murder of, 149–66, 305, 319, 368, 383, 384, 387, 388, 389
Putin’s meeting with, 108–9, 408n
Litvinenko, Marina, 149, 152, 163
live doubles, 45
Lonsdale, Gordon, 33. See also Molody, Konon
Lubyanka, 17, 107
Lucas, Edward, 316
Lugovoi, Andrei, 152, 156–62
Malone, Bertha, 380
Mandia, Kevin, 346–48
Marsical, Waldo, Jr., 86, 270, 282–83, 289
Marsical, Waldo, Sr., 85–86
Martin (Litvinenko contact), 152
Max (Zaporozhsky code name), 57, 405n
Maxim, 315
McColl, Colin, 46
McFaul, Mike, 240, 241, 340
Medvedev, Dimitri, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243–44, 255, 260, 261, 277
abstention from vote on Libyan intervention, 338–39
meeting with Obama, 245–46, 302
Mercader, Ramon, 318
Merkel, Angela, 343
Metsos, Christopher, 181–89, 191–93, 196, 216, 233, 237, 281
arrest and escape of, 271–73
expertise in disguise, 182
FBI Wanted poster for, 413n
identities of, 181–82, 183
as a mentor, 188–89
psychological impact of loss of, 192–93
surveillance of, 184–87
suspected as double agent, 306
MI5, 47, 68, 125, 135, 140, 141, 147, 172, 316, 327–29, 368, 386
MI6, 2, 9, 47, 79–82, 137, 178, 276, 298, 389
Alternative Futures and, 113
Cherapanov and, 321–23
CIA compared with, 34, 403n
Litvinenko and, 152, 159–60
Lugovoi and, 160–61
Mitrokhin and, 46
9/11 attacks and, 135
Philby scandal (see Philby, Kim)
in Russia, 11–12, 48–49, 170
Skripal and, 176–77, 381, 383, 385
Sutyagin and, 114
version of illegals, 34–35
Vienna spy swap and, 280
Microsoft, 186, 212, 390, 413n
Millennium Hotel, 156–57, 161–62
Mills, Patricia. See Pereverzeva, Natalia
Mitrokhin, Vasili, 45–47
moles, 50, 51–59
Molody, Konon “Gordon Lonsdale,” 33, 35, 63, 279
money delivery, 184–88, 192–200
Moonlight Maze, 346–47
Morea Financial Services, 129
Moscow Center, 13, 37, 42, 89, 90, 188, 194, 196–97, 200, 205, 214–15, 222, 324, 331
Moscow Rules, 11, 170
Moscow State Institute of International Relations, 310
Mossad, 137
Mueller, Robert, 229, 231, 237, 241–42, 260, 368, 380
murder and murder attempts, 148. See also Berezovsky, Boris; Litvinenko, Alexander; Skripal, Sergei
Murphy, Cynthia, 92, 93, 136, 174, 217–21, 223, 225, 230–31, 236, 270, 294–95, 309, 364, 394
arrest of, 265–69
employment of, 129, 204, 214, 219–21, 230
tension between husband and, 99–100, 128–30
tension between secret and American lives, 213–16
Vienna spy swap and, 290
Murphy, Katie, 93, 213–14, 266–69, 314
Murphy, Lisa, 93, 213–14, 267–69
Murphy, Richard, 91–93, 128–30, 213–17, 225, 229–30, 236, 294–95, 309, 325, 375
arrest of, 265–69
employment of, 128
floppy disks of, 100–104
house purchased by, 214–15, 216
Metsos and, 181, 185, 186–87, 188
money delivery by, 192–200
as a stay-at-home dad, 214
surveillance of, 91–92, 93, 95, 98, 99–105, 129–30, 193–96, 198–200, 207–8, 214, 216
tension between secret and American lives, 213–16
tension between wife and, 99–100, 128–30
Vienna spy swap and, 290, 291, 296
My Beautiful Balkans (Hampel), 191
Mysteries of the World with Anna Chapman (television program), 316
National Rifle Association (NRA), 373
National Security Agency (NSA), 203, 342–43, 348, 351
National Security Council, 240, 389
NATO, 50, 73, 179, 234, 323, 325, 327, 328, 357, 361, 385
natural cover, 34
Navalny, Alexei, 341
Navigator, 142
Nazis, 31, 33, 34
Nemeth, Anna Marie, 44–45
New Hampshire primary, 362–63
new illegals, 7, 353–70. See also internet
New York University,
73, 129
Nicholson, Jim, 405n
Night Wolves (Russian bikers), 304
9/11 attacks, 7, 77, 135–36, 140
Ninth Directorate of KGB, 157
nondiplomatic cover, 15
non-official cover (NOC), 34, 174, 330
Norilsk Nickel, 310
Novaya Gazeta, 307
Obama, Barack, 229, 238–39, 300, 342, 360, 361, 366
Ghost Stories briefing, 239–44
meeting with Medvedev, 245–46, 302
Russian interest in views of, 216–17
oligarchs, 65–66, 140, 165, 391
changing role of, 377–78
political warfare and, 361
Putin and, 108–10, 344, 377
Yeltsin’s secret deal with, 65
Olshevsky, Dimitry “Ian Lambert,” 29
O’Neill, John, 77
One Russia. See United Russia
Operation Monopoly, 117
Orange Revolution, 178
organized crime (Russian), 65, 140, 150, 159
Paderina, Ekaterina, 329
Page, Carter, 334–36, 367
Panetta, Leon, 229, 238, 240, 241–43, 244, 260–61, 275–78, 285, 294, 323, 390
Parabola (encoding program), 325
paroles, 248
Patricof, Alan, 220–21, 270
Patrushev, Nikolai, 179
pattern of life analysts, 97
PayPal, 363
Peatfield, James Tristan, 44–45
Peduto, Genesis, 315
Pelaez, Vicky, 84–90, 130
arrest of, 270
hearing of, 282
knowledge of husband’s identity, 88
political views of, 85, 87
refugee status granted to, 85
return to Peru, 315
in Russia, 314–15
surveillance of, 84–85, 88
US citizenship obtained by, 87
Vienna spy swap and, 284, 289, 290
Penkovsky, Oleg, 276, 279
Pereplichny, Alexander, 425n
Pereverzeva, Natalia “Patricia Mills,” 186–88, 198, 199, 200, 221–23, 230
arrest of, 269–70
refusal to make admissions, 281
surveillance of, 222–23
Vienna spy swap and, 291
Philby, Kim, 31, 33, 56, 124, 125, 218, 256, 382
Pieper, Derek, 91, 95, 98, 99, 124, 130, 147, 194, 195, 196, 204, 208, 227, 265, 266, 267, 268–69
Platt, Jack, 116, 117
Podesta, John, 364
Podobnyy, Victor, 330–34, 335–36
Poeteray, Raymond, 325
poisoning, 148. See also Litvinenko, Alexander; Skripal, Sergei
Poland, 355
political information, 216–23
political warfare, 353–70. See also elections (US)
coining of term, 361
online, 354–61, 363–66, 368–69
real world, 361–62, 364
Politkovskaya, Anna, 154
polonium, 153–54, 155, 156–57, 161–62
polygraphs, 32
Post Impulse system, 73
Poteyev, Alexander, 64, 69–79, 80–81, 82, 84, 93, 173–76, 179, 184, 198, 229, 231, 233–38, 241, 248, 253, 271, 304, 305, 306, 324, 326, 330, 333, 378
access to illegals’ personal files, 174–75
in Afghanistan, 70–71, 80
arrival in US, 260
background of, 70
BuzzFeed report on, 425n
Chapman and, 205, 317
Cherapanov identified by, 322
dangers facing, 392–94
disappearance of, 394
false report of death, 392
flight from Russia, 246–48, 257–58
importance of intelligence provided by, 233
increasing worry of, 233, 235
number of illegals identified by, 323
plans for exfiltration, 236–38, 242–43
recruitment by FBI, 76–78, 118, 169–70
requests visit to mistress, 417n
robbery of apartment, 175–76, 407n
as “the source,” 69
training of, 36
traveling of for job, 173–74
tried in absentia, 317–18
Poteyev, Marina, 70, 247
Poteyev, Nikolai, 70
Powers, Gary, 16, 279
preserves, 35
Prigozhin, Evgeny, 360
PRISM, 342
Project Lakhta, 354–57
PROLOGUE. See Zhomov, Alexander
Putin, Vladimir, 5, 107–12, 118, 128, 138, 143, 169, 179, 211, 235, 243, 275, 278, 301–5, 307, 310, 316, 337–45, 348, 372, 384, 393
Cameron’s visit to, 163
East German revolution and, 19
election of, 110
as FSB head, 107–9, 111, 155
grudge against Hillary Clinton, 363
illegals and, 8, 34, 111, 301–4, 395, 397
in the KGB, 8, 34, 108, 303, 395
Litvinenko and, 108–9, 151, 155–56, 159, 160–61, 408n
martial arts studied by, 7, 109
oligarchs and, 108–10, 344, 377
political warfare and, 354, 355, 358, 361
return to presidency, 337, 339
spies/spying and, 107–8, 110–12, 140–41, 233, 340–41
term limits on presidency, 238
on traitors, 304, 318–19, 388
Vienna spy swap and, 386, 390
view of 9/11 attacks, 135
Al Qaeda, 162, 345, 379
radiograms/shortwave radio, 90, 408n
Read, Marcus, 133
Reagan, Ronald, 334, 357
recruitment, 28, 122–25, 218–19
Red Banner Institute, 36, 71
Redfin, 125
Red Heat (film), 246
Red Sparrow (film), 145–46
Red Terror, 18
Republicans, 372–73, 374
reset strategy. See under Russia
Ricci, Maria, 91, 95, 96, 98, 99, 103, 125, 138, 196, 199–200, 204, 209, 254, 265, 266, 267, 291, 295, 314, 330, 332, 336, 397
Right to Bear Arms, 373
Robbins, James S., 211
Rockefeller, Nelson, 28
Rogers, Tony, 104
Roman (FBI undercover officer), 248–52, 317
Ronaldo, Cristiano, 326
Rose Revolution, 178
Rosneft, 310, 367
RT, 344, 366
Rudenko, Anatoli, 28–29
Russia
bombings in, 110, 155
changes in, 64–65, 169
conspiratorial worldview in, 178–79, 340
coup of 1991 in, 12–21, 43, 45, 58, 346, 367
defense technology of, 112–13
economic crisis in, 48, 65
mission to UN, 69, 71–72, 74, 184, 304
nationalism in, 14, 22, 304, 361
oligarchs of (see oligarchs)
organized crime in, 65, 140, 150, 159
patience and persistence in espionage, 55, 219, 396–97
post-Soviet vulnerability of, 47–50
protests in, 339, 363
“reset” strategy of US, 217, 238–39, 241, 243, 306, 338, 340, 345, 361
revolution of 1917, 17, 32, 46
sphere of influence, 179
traitors punished by, 387
Western spies in, 11–12
Russia House, 19–20, 22, 50, 52, 54, 57, 174, 229, 275, 307, 345
Russian Central Bank, 371
Russian Consulate, 73
Russia Today. See RT
Sanders, Bernie, 363, 365
Scarlett, John, 48, 49, 405n
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 246
Sechin, Igor, 310
Second Chief Directorate of KGB, 51, 54
Secured Borders (Facebook page), 359
Semenko, Mikhail, 209–11, 230, 246, 258, 259
arrest of, 269
background of, 209–10
char
ges against, 281
employment of, 210
FBI undercover trap, 252–54
Sepal (decoding program), 325
Seton Hall University, 210
Seventeen Moments of Spring (television program), 34, 43, 396
Shebarshin, Leonid, 13–14, 15, 17–18, 19, 22–23, 45, 401n, 402n
Shelton, Todd A., 255
Shvets, Yuri, 159
Silicon Valley, 212, 341
Simm, Herman, 234, 235
Sipher, John, 135
Skiber, Matt, 363–64
Skripal, Ludmilla, 176
Skripal, Sasha, 176, 382
Skripal, Sergei, 79–82, 176–77, 322
arrest and incarceration of, 177, 179
background of, 80
code name of (Forthwith), 81
opinions on importance of, 81–82
poisoning of, 381–89, 391, 392–94
Vienna spy swap and, 287–88, 293, 298–99, 385
Skripal, Yulia, 176, 383, 388
sleepers, 5, 6, 14, 15, 35, 146–47, 378
Snowden, Edward, 342–43
social media, 355–61, 366, 368–69
Soldatov, Andrei, 307
Sopranos, The (television program), 236
Sorge, Richard, 33
Soviet Union
Afghanistan invasion by, 31, 36, 70–71, 80, 176, 276
collapse of, 13, 20–24, 43–44, 48 (see also coup of 1991 (Russia))
“evil empire” designation, 31
Putin on end of, 108
size of, 14
Spain, 159, 321–23
Special Agent Illegals, 138, 147, 209, 330, 395, 418n
Special Reserve officers of Directorate S, 182–83, 184, 191
Special Surveillance Group (SSG) of FBI, 68
spies and spying, 5–9. See also agents; illegals
changes in Russian, 179–80
communications to home base and, 89
motives of, 75–76
post-Soviet mission, 22–23
Putin and, 107–8, 110–12, 140–41, 233, 301, 340–41
in Russia, 11–12
Russian vs. Western definitions of, 31
in UK, 140–41
Sporyshev, Igor, 330, 335
spotting, 122, 123, 147, 218, 219
spy dust, 171
spy fever, 111–12, 140–41, 169, 179, 233, 341
“spy rock,” 178
spy swaps
Cold War, 16, 278–79
Vienna (see Vienna spy swap)
St. Petersburg University, 327–28
Stalin, Joseph, 33, 318
Staniford, Bill, 203–4
START, 238, 242, 243
Stasi, 19
Steele, Chris, 367–68
steganography, 102–3, 374, 376
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, 216
STRATFOR, 121
Sturgess, Dawn, 385
Sudoplatov, Pavel, 403n
Sulick, Mike, 20–21, 57–58, 117, 275, 276, 278, 280
Sutyagin, Igor, 112–14, 286, 287, 288, 293, 297, 298, 299
SVR, 47, 48–49, 57, 58, 71–72, 77, 107, 144, 194, 230, 231, 253, 258, 376, 389, 394
Active Measures Directorate, 332
Anschlag and, 325, 326