Edward Lucas - Deception

4 See ‘Factbox: Who are the spies Russia plans to swap?’, Reuters, 9 July 2010 http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/7/9/us-russia-usa-spies-factbox-idUSTRE6681DG20100709. The others were Igor Sutyagin, who had worked at a think tank; Aleksandr Zaporozhsky, a KGB colonel who spied for America and helped unmask Ames and Hanssen, but unwisely returned to Russia; and Gennady Vasilenko, about whom little is known. See Stranny srok ‘shpiona’ Vasilenko’ (The strange life of the ‘spy’ Vasilenko), Rosbalt, 13 July 2010 http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2010/7/13/753359.html

5 Sources differ on whether the man concerned was Oleg Penkovsky, the West’s highest-ranking agent-in-place in the Soviet Union, or Piotr Popov, the first GRU officer to be recruited by the West, who was betrayed by the SIS officer George Blake. The account comes from Aquarium – The Career and Defection of a Soviet Military Spy (Hamish Hamilton, 1985) by Viktor Suvorov (the pen name of Vladimir Rezun).

6 The same ‘spotlighting’ was experienced in 1996 by Norman MacSween, the then SIS station chief in Moscow, who was the case officer for Platon Obukhov, a 28-year-old foreign ministry employee. He was shown waiting vainly on a park bench in Moscow. See ‘British Diplomat Linked to Spy Case’ by Owen Matthews, The Moscow Times , 31 July 1996. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/british-diplomat-linked-to-spy-case/320742.html

7 ‘The cold war is over, but rock in a park suggests the spying game still thrives’ by Nick Paton Walsh, Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill, Guardian, 24 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jan/24/russia.politics; and ‘Spy-rock Russian faces 20 years’ jail’ by Mark Franchetti, Sunday Times , 29 January 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article722212.ece

8 The Big Breach: from Top Secret to Maximum Security was originally published in Moscow in 2001, with the help of Russian intelligence. It is now available in the UK from Cutting Edge Press.

9 ‘Spies Among Us: Why Spies, Why Now?’ 10 July 2010 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201007/spies-among-us. Mr Navarro can be reached through www.jnforensics.com

10 His real name is still classified, according to a CIA spokesman. The document can be read at http://www.scribd.com/doc/515327/ciadeepcover

11 ‘What’s wrong with America’s spies’, April 2003, Middle East Intelligence Bulletin http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/304_me1.htm. Mr Carroll’s website is http://www.tpcarroll.com. Another useful primer on espionage is this course syllabus http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/carrollt/site/welcome_files/gov’t%20139g%20class%20notes%20fall%202006%20-%2024%20oct.pdf

1 Available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint2.pdfand http://www.justice.gov.opa/documents/62810complaint1.pdf

2 ‘Russian Spy Suspects Were Suburbia Personified’ by Manny Fernandez and Fernanda Santos, New York Times , 30 June 2010 www.nytimes.com/2010/6/30/nyregion/30couples.html

3 Interview with author, December 2010.

4 Mr Patricof, a prominent New York-based financier, was a donor to President Bill Clinton’s campaign and a friend of Mrs Clinton’s. He admitted that he knew Mrs Murphy but insists he never discussed anything of a political or sensitive nature with her. He is believed to be the person referred to in the Department of Justice initial complaint (section 85a, p35). Available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint2.pdf. Complaint 1 is available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint1.pdf

5 ‘Busted Russian Spy Wants Old Life Back’ by Richard Boudreaux, Wall St Journal , 7 August 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413600124475346.html

6 See Complaint 1, section 40.

7 One might start by sparing a thought for the children involved, such as the Murphys’ daughters. For them, their parents’ foray into international espionage meant a painful and bewildering upheaval, ending in a return to Russia, a country they did not know with a language they did not speak. Children trust their parents above all and find even minor deceptions upsetting. The revelation of a double life will leave deep scars. Spouses can suffer quite badly too. A whiff of the hurt and distrust caused by the affair came in February 2011 with an interview given to Caretas , a Peruvian magazine, by Ms Peláez, who insisted that she had no idea that her husband of twenty years was not who he claimed to be. ‘Not even when we fought would I hear a word in Russian… not even in intonation. Such was his preparation.’ Ms Peláez, who was handcuffed and put in prison uniform before the initial court hearing, shows some sympathy with her husband’s cause, suffused with the grandiloquent rhetoric of Soviet-era solidarity with the Third World. She describes him as the ‘last Soviet hero’ and an ‘unseen warrior’, who told her: ‘I was brought up as a revolutionary, as an internationalist.’ In a column for Moscow News , where she began as a regular contributor in August 2011, she says he is ‘sad’ about how much life has changed in the thirty years since he left the Soviet Union. Her own son from a previous relationship and her younger son Juan (fathered by Vasenkov) have remained in New York. She said her husband ‘suffers for the lack of his son, to whom he dedicated his best hours and whom he now can’t see’. She said she does not want to stay in Russia, where she is receiving a $2,000 monthly pension, but wishes to return to either Peru or Brazil eventually. Some doubt about Ms Peláez’s eloquently expressed disappointment comes from the criminal complaint against her husband, in which FBI eavesdroppers say they overheard him talking to her about his family’s wartime experiences in the Soviet Union: ‘We moved to Siberia… as soon as the war started.’ It is conceivable, if unlikely, that she believed that he was a Uruguayan (perhaps of communist parents) who had spent the war years in the Soviet Union. Perhaps she knew he was spying but thought it was for another country, such as Cuba. The Peruvian authorities queried her marriage and birth certificates. See ‘Vicky Peláez to face corruption charges in Peru’ http://www.livinginperu.com/news/13009and ‘La “Espía” que Volvió del Frío’ (‘The “Spy” who returned from the Cold’) http://nuestragente2010.wordpress.com/-vicky-pelaez-regresa-al-peruas well as ‘Mystery surrounds alleged spies’ children – With parents behind bars, kids’ lives likely in turmoil’ by Elizabeth Chuck and Ryan McCartney, msnbc.com, 30 June, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38021300/ns/us_news-security/

8 www.bostonredcarpet.comand the seemingly identical www.foleyann.com, accessed 7 September 2010 (now defunct).

9 http://www.futuremap.com/conversion-pages/strategic-leadership/future-challenges. The website gives no clue about the number of people working at Futuremap, and blurs the distinctions between the ‘institute’ and the ‘company’. Heathfield’s name appears only once on the entire site. Both futuremap.com and myfuturemap.com are written in Russified English, with a notable absence of definite and indefinite articles.

10 ‘Records show alleged Russian spy graduated from York’ Ylife 5 July 2010 http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/index.asp?Article=3260

11 Scenarios for Success: Turning Insights into Action (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). Heathfield’s chapter can be downloaded here http://www.futuremap.com/Portals/56527/docs/book%20chapter-%20don%20heathfield-fm%2070124.pdf

12 Interview with the author, February 2011.

13 Interview with the author, February 2011. For reasons of commercial confidentiality, this source wishes to remain anonymous.