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And in November 1996 The New York Times, November 11, 1996.

In a 1994 case, police came The New York Times, December 11, 1994.

“a mixture between”John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, August 15, 1999.

The story of Vladimir Putin’s ascentThe number of Yeltsin’s heart attacks had been a closely held secret until Yeltsin disclosed it in a January 2004 interview with RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, according to a BBC dispatch, January 20, 2004.

In recent months, allegations had surfacedSharon LaFraniere, The Washington Post, September 8, 1999.

“a man of”Oleg Kalugin, quoted by Paul Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2000), 297.

By the end of 2006Olga Kryshtanovskaya, quoted by Reuters, December 15, 2006.

“I think the best plan would”Mikhail Fridman, quoted by John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2000.

Yeltsin warned thatBoris Yeltsin, quoted by CNN, April 9, 1999.

“transformed the Russian political”Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 302.

“Ryazan was planned”David Satter, Darkness at Dawn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), n265.

“those who needed another”Ibid., 69.

Opposition lawmaker Vladimir GolovlyovVladimir Golovlyov was killed August 21, 2002; Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin were killed on April 17, 2003, and July 3, 2003, respectively. Mikhail Trepashkin was jailed on October 22, 2003.

“There are no people”Vladimir Putin, quoted in The New York Times, February 2, 2002.

Russia possessed 26 percent ofBP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007.

As prime minister, PutinAndrew Jack, Inside Putin’s Russia (London: Granta Books, 2004), 14.

“This profession employs”Vladimir Putin, quoted in The Washington Post, December 22, 2006.

Europe was an important energyBP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006. It is understood by energy experts that Europe’s reliance on Russian natural gas did not diminish in 2007 and 2008.

According to the SOVA CenterStatistics from the SOVA Center are at http://xeno.sova-center.ru/6BA2468.

He thought Washington simply didn’t understandQuotes, paraphrases, and detail from author’s interview with “Viktor,” August 29, 2007.

“I heard it from the Kremlin”Author interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov, April 29, 2007.

“overstepped its national borders”Vladimir Putin, quoted in official transcript of his February 10, 2007, speech before the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy.

When the United States saidFebruary 21, 2007, in The Washington Post.

“Gentlemen, Russia has”Sergei Yastrzhembsky, quoted in International Herald Tribune, February 22, 2007.

“Putin may be back”Author interview with Vyacheslav Nikonov.

“everything is the state”Author interview with Boris Volodarsky, February 28, 2007.

“copper-colored skin was”Nikolai Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience (New York: David McKay, 1959), 353.

“artistic whistler”Ibid., 13.

In short order, Nikolai signedSudoplatov et al., Special Tasks, 35.

“Kube is killed”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 71, 73, 75.

“kill a man whose”Ibid., 54.

“blond, blue-eyed good looks”Sudoplatov et al., Special Tasks, 247–48.

“a young Sudoplatov”Nikolai Khokhlov spoke in person and by phone and communicated via e-mail numerous times during 2007. This particular quote came from a telephone interview with the author on June 9, 2007.

“I have big plans for you”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 95.

“if he admitted”Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.

“the finest and most”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 184–85.

“didn’t care”Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.

“short-witted”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 216.

“apparently a very good man”Ibid., 201–02.

“Is it possible that this”Ibid., 240.

“I’ve come to you from”Ibid., 246.

“rigorous questioning”Author interview with Thomas Polgar, intelligence adviser to CIA station chief at the time, July 21, 2007.

he was a high-value catchBased on author interview with David E. Murphy, who was in charge of Soviet affairs for the CIA in Munich at the time of Nikolai’s defection, July 21, 2007.

“blow for blow”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 318.

“keep Yana in the embassy”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience.

“I was desperate”Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.

“a slight, scholarly-appearing blond”Reporter quoted in The New York Times, April 23, 1954.

“Nobody went to your family”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 345.

“say anything”Author interview with Thomas Polgar, July 20, 2007.

“he was never told”Author interview with David E. Murphy.

“nauseatingly friendly”This quote and details of the telephone calls and Yana’s sentence are from an unpublished addendum to In the Name of Conscience, provided to the author by Nikolai Khokhlov.

“things began to whirl”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 350.

“To be honest, it’s hopeless”Ibid., 357.

He later told crusadingAnna Politkovskaya, Novaya Gazeta, July 1, 2004.

“due to poisoning, probably” The New York Times, October 15, 1957.

“square accounts”Khokhlov, In the Name of Conscience, 354.

“disgusted”Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.

“done everything right”Author interview with Nikolai Khokhlov.

Five years laterUnless otherwise noted, detail and quotes throughout this chapter are from separate author interviews with Ilya Lysak, Irina Fadeeva, Elena Baranovskaya, and their families. The interviews were conducted on May 4, 2007, and May 5, 2007 (Lysak); May 3, 2007 (Fadeeva); and April 14, 2007 (Baranovskaya). In addition, the author interviewed Fadeeva and Baranovskaya at a dinner of the Nord-Ostsi (the “People of Nord-Ost ”) on August 30, 2007.

Among the lucky ones was AlimDetail and quotes from author interviews with Alim and Zauddin Tlupov, August 26, 1997.

Anna entered the lobby areaQuotes and detail from Anna Politkovskaya’s account of her visit, Novaya Gazeta, October 28, 2002. I relied on a translation approved by Politkovskaya and published on the website of the International Women’s Media Foundation (http://www.iwmf.org/features/anna/).