Farewell (49 page)

5
Raymond Nart, interview by Eric Raynaud, March 18, 2009.

6
Vetrov claimed during the investigation that the rendezvous with “Paul” lasted only ten to twelve minutes, except the one in December. This is obviously not true.

7
Chalet,
Les Visiteurs de l’ombre
, 175.

8
Patrick Ferrant, interview by Eric Raynaud, February 27, 2003.

9
See Chalet’s account: “We asked him how he envisioned his defection to the West. He answered that we’d talk about it later. He insisted on staying inside the system” (
Les Visiteurs de l’ombre
, 177).

10
Raymond Nart, interview by Eric Raynaud, March 18, 2009.

Chapter 18. Two Men in a Lada, and a New World Order

Source: Patrick Ferrant, interviews by Eric Raynaud, February 24, 27, and 29, 2003.

1
Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky,
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 583–585.

Chapter 19. The Lull Before the Storm

1
Chalet,
Les Visiteurs de l’ombre
, 175.

2
Subcompact vehicles manufactured in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. Their name was often altered as jokes “Zhoporozhets” (“zhopa” meaning “butt,” “ass,” “bottom,” and “rozhatj” meaning “giving birth” in Russian), an “asshole delivered car,” somehow. Ukrainians referred to it as “Zapor” (meaning “constipation”).

Chapter 20. Vladik

Source: Vladislav Vetrov’s memories.

1
Raymond Nart, interview by Eric Raynaud, March 18, 2009.

Chapter 21. February 22

1
According to the unique KGB source, namely Vetrov’s deposition during the second investigation, his last rendezvous with “Paul” took place in December 1981, before Ferrant left for the Christmas holidays. The French officer, however, is categorical: he spent the holidays with his family in Moscow, and the last rendezvous with Vetrov was on January 26, 1982. It must also be recalled that they had scheduled a meeting for February 23.

2
The Moscow River [Moskova] is indeed not far from that area. The river water was clean coming into the capital. This was almost at the edge of the village of Ekaterinovka, which was already then part of Moscow.

Chapter 22. A Not So Radiant Future

Source: Memories of people close to the Vetrovs and to Ludmila Ochikina.

1
Ludmila Ochikina, interview by Sergei Kostin. Curiously, Alexander Khinshtein, in “The Lubyanka Werewolf,” reports a different version, apparently in Vetrov’s criminal file: “On the evening of February 22, Tatiana Grishina, living in the village of Ekaterinovka, near Moscow, heard a woman screaming. She opened her gate and saw a woman covered with blood. ‘I am from the KGB. Call the police, quick, call an ambulance. Somebody tried to kill me.’”

2
It was Kramarenko, the detective from the GAI First Division (Khinshtein, “The Lubyanka Werewolf”).

3
Vladimir Kryuchkov, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 26, 2007.

4
Khinshtein, “The Lubyanka Werewolf.”

5
Peter Marwitz (in an e-mail message to Sergei Kostin, December 1, 1997) claims that Krivich was not at all a passerby, but also a KGB officer, and also Ludmila’s lover. He would have followed the couple to the parking area, and would have intervened when he realized there was a fight going on inside Vetrov’s car. This version seems to us extravagant, and we are reporting it only out of scrupulousness. In our opinion, it weakens other comments made by Marwitz. The special interest Canadian secret services seem to have in this crime in its slightest details is quite intriguing.

Chapter 23. A Woman to Stone

Sources: Memories of our witnesses from the PGU; Svetlana Vetrova’s memories.

1
Igor Prelin, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 30, 2007.

2
Ibid.

3
Quoted by Vitaly Karavashkin during a meeting with Sergei Kostin in the summer of 1995.

4
Igor Prelin, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 30, 2007.

Chapter 24. Confession of an Outcast

Sources: Ludmila Ochikina’s testimony, Vetrov’s investigation file, memories of people close to Vetrov, and Vetrov’s colleagues’ memories.

1
According to Khinshtein in “The Lubyanka Werewolf,” Ochikina presented “cuts near the left temple, and in the internal side of her right thumb with a severed tendon” (resulting from the blow on her head with the champagne bottle and from her struggling against the pique), but more importantly “a perforating wound above the left shoulder blade entering the pleural cavity” (caused by the pique).

Chapter 25. A Jail for the Privileged

Source: Valery Rechensky’s account.

1
Marchenko died in 2005.

2
Vladimir Kryuchkov, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 26, 2007.

3
Igor Prelin, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 27, 2007.

Chapter 26. The Trial

1
Here is another episode. Svetlana was in the hallway when Ochikina came out of the courtroom, along with the woman who had found her that night, more dead than alive. According to Svetlana, the woman was beside herself, and she said to Ludmila, “I regret the day I bumped into you. He should have finished you off.” We do not know if credence should be given to these memories; we report them out of scrupulousness. If other circumstances were revealed, they might shed some light on this incident.

2
Igor Prelin, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 30, 2007.

3
The date is indicated in Khinshtein’s article, “The Lubyanka Werewolf.”

4
Ibid.

Chapter 27. A Disconnected French Connection

1
Chalet,
Les Visiteurs de l’ombre
, 184.

2
Raymond Nart, interview by Eric Raynaud, April 7, 2009.

3
This date is based on Svetlana’s memories. Based on the investigation file, this happened shortly before Vetrov’s transfer to Irkutsk, which means in March 1983.

4
According to the investigation file, the message also contained the names of two agents working for the KGB. By doing so, Vetrov was trying to prove to his French masters that he still could provide lots of information from memory. Svetlana denies it categorically.

5
Marcel Chalet, interview by Eric Raynaud, February 5, 2003.

Chapter 28. The Cold War, Reagan, and the Strange Dr. Weiss

1
Richard V. Allen, e-mail message to Eric Raynaud, January 31, 2009.

2
Ibid.

3
See Q&A for details on Sam Donaldson’s question at
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44101
See also Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson,
Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
(New York: Crown Publishers, 2009), 60.

4
Richard V. Allen, interview by Eric Raynaud, March 12, 2009.

5
Richard V. Allen, “The Man Who Changed the Game Plan,”
The National Interest
(Summer 1996).

6
Giles Slade,
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 230 and following.

7
Ibid.

8
Gus W. Weiss, “Duping the Soviets: The Farewell Dossier,”
Studies in Intelligence,
#5. Available at
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/96unclass/farewell.htm
. Downloaded in January 2003.

9
Studied in detail in
Industrial management in a key sector of Soviet economy: The gas industry
by Catherine Cauvin-Higgins (1986), University of Houston-University Park, Department of Political Science.

10
This episode is reported in various articles and books, such as Anderson and Andserson,
Reagan’s Secret War
, 65.

11
L’affaire Farewell: L’espion de la vengeance
, documentary film by Jean-François Delassus, broadcasted on the German-French TV channel Arte in 2009.

12
For the entire paragraph, refer to General Jean Guyaux,
L’Espion des Sciences. Les arcanes et les arnaques scientifiques du contre-espionnage
(Paris: Flammarion, 2002), 133.

Chapter 29. The Gulag Prisoner

Sources: Vladimir Vetrov’s letters and his family’s memories.

1
Igor Prelin, interview by Sergei Kostin, March 30, 2007.

2
Khinshtein, “The Lubyanka Werewolf.”

3
Inmates have the right to petition for parole after they served half of their sentence. This point of Vetrov’s letter contradicts what he said earlier, which is not a rare occurrence with him.

4
Yasnov was a high-ranking functionary with the Moscow town council; Rogatina did not know him, for that matter. Vetrov clearly keeps looking for ways to have someone influential intervene in his favor.

5
Words from a love song by Konstantin Simonov, very popular during WWII.

6
Lyrics from a song.

7
Legendary hero of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), who sacrificed himself; having run out of grenades during an attack, Matrosov threw himself onto a German pillbox, blocking the machine gun with his own body to allow his unit to advance.

8
Very strong brewed tea, with a euphoriant effect similar to the effect of alcohol. It is closely associated with the prison system of Russia and is typically drunk by inmates.

9
Nina Ruslanova was a popular singer in the thirties, forties, and fifties, and a victim of Stalinist repressions.

10
Another wartime song by Konstantin Simonov.

11
Apparently, there was a temporarory tightening of the camp rules. The following line proves that Vetrov did not expect to be transferred.

12
Svetlana does not remember what this refers to.

13
It is traditional for the guests at a wedding banquet to cry out, “Gorko, gorko…” (meaning “bitter”). The newlyweds must then stand up and kiss so the food no longer taste bitter.