$ geany -i "$d_webRaw""Book [note, review]s/Howell notes on McIntyre 2018 The spy and the traitor.txt" Ben McIntyre 2018 "The Spy and the Traitor" (c) Ben McIntyre, Penguin RandomHouse Canada, ISBN 978-0-7710-6035-9 Peter Wright's Spycatcher novel ******** Oleg Antonyevich Gordievsky, born 10Oct1938 18May1985 46 years old, Colonel at end of story MI6 names - SUNBEAM (Guscott name early on), NOCTON Danish PET names "Uncle Gormsson" father Anton Lavrentyevich Gordievsky son of a railway worker, teacher before 1917 revolution !!! 1932 Sovietization of Kazakhstan - helped enforce, expropriated food from peasants 1.5 million starved (Howell - like Holomodor!!, same timing) joined NKVD 1932 (People's Commissariate for Internal Affairs) precursor to KGB officer in political directorate - political discipline and indoctrination Great Purge of 1936-38 - killings included Jews initial training at KGB's "Red Banner" elite training camp 50 miles N of Moscow mother Olag Nikolayevna Gornova - statistician, cynical of Soviet system, but normally kept mouth shut older brother Vasili born 1932, worked for Directorate S sister Marina born 7 years after Oleg Stanislaw Kaplan - Czech, also a long distance runner liberal-minded, skeptical views about Communism MI6 codename DANICEK 1968 - recent defection of junior officer Geoffrey Guscott picked up on mention of Oleg Gordievsky Yelena Akopian - first wife of Oleg, studying to teach German ~1970 started work for Twelfth Department of KGB - bugging and eavesdropping on foreign diplomats assigned to unit listening to Scandanvian embassies and diplomates promoted to lieutenant Berlin Wall, Czech invasion 20Aug1968, 2,000 tanks 200,000 troops disillusioned Oleg 11Oct1972 Oleg & Yelena back to Copenhagen Oleg was major, person in charge of Copenhagen agent running & intelligence gathering Leila - second wife, returned to Moscow Jan1979, married Oleg a few weeks later, pregnant soon after daughter Maria born Apr1980 2nd daughter Anna born Sep1981 Fifth Department (of FCD??) - gave Oleg permission to go to London 28Jun1982 ******** KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Directorate K - counter-intelligence section First Chief Directorate (FCD) KGB department for foreign intelligence Directorate S (special) - [trained, deployed, managed] illegals Third Department ?1978? Victor Grushko department chief, short fat Ukrainian because of divorce&remarry announcement banished Oleg to personnel section ex-wife Yelena was by then a captain Oleg's father died one month after he got to Moscow from Copenhagen at age 82 invited to Oleg & Leila's celebration of daughter Maria circa 1980 promoted to Deputy Head of FCD Gennadi Titov "the Crocodile" replaced Grushko as head of Third Department circa 1980 had been rezident in Oslo & Arne Treholt's case officer Dmitri Svetanko deputy department head (?of Third Department?)- discouraged Oleg from reading into British files while preparting to go to London circa 1982 Nikolai Gribin new head of Scandanvia&British section circa 1980 Fifth Department (of FCD??) - gave Oleg permission to go to London 28Jun1982 Copenhagen - Oleg's first (4 year?) posting started Jan1966 Leonid Zaitsev - rezident most officers [incompetent, lazy, crooked] fiddeled expenses, invented contacts, few spoke good Danish Oleg already spoke Sedish, learned Danish Mikhail Petrovich Lyubimov (KGB codename KORIN) came in a year after Oleg started in Copenhagen, Ukrainian graduate of Moscow State Institute of International relations 4 years before Oled graduated Anglophile, thesis wrote "English National Character and its use in operational work" became chief of Copenhagen political intelligence end of 1966 Operation FOOT 24Sep1971 - British govt ejected 105 Soviet intelligence officers crippled British ops of KGB for a while, had to rebuild over a period of two decades Oleg Lyalin KGB officer, codename GOLDFINCH defected and triggered FOOT worked in KGB Thirteenth Department - sabotage section for contingency plans for war with West Dmitri Yakushin - took over First Chief Directorate's Britain & Scandanvia section initially criticised Oleg Gordievsky when he reported 3 colleagues expulsed from Denmark then Yakushin tried to get Oleg transferred as politial intelligence officer of KGB's First Chief Directorate, Copenhagen Department S wouldn't allow until Oleg's brother Vaili died of over-drinking Oleg stepped into shoes of Mikhail Lyubimov, who went to Moscow as a leader of Britain&Scandanavia section, was second 4yr posting in Copenhagen Yakushin encouraged Oleg to continue meeting with Richard Bromhead, circa Nov1973 (via Czech rezident Mogilevchik) PR Line (British section?) KGB London Arkadi Vasilyevich Guk, KGB London rezident, General, dull & brutish anti-[culture, intelligensia] Leonid Yefremovich Nikitenko, head of counter-intelligence - very sharp, brutal Igor Fyodorovich Titov, head of the PR Line (political intelligence) Oleg's immediate boss (no relation to Gennadi) Oleg thought "a truely evil man", Titov considered Oleg to be a threat to his career MI6 had Titov expelled May1983, along with two other KGB to deflect suspicion Oleg took his job, promotion to lieutenant-colonel Maksim Parshikov - sympathetic co-worker, noted Oleg's stress for first few months Line X - scientific & technical Line N - illegals Line KR - counterintelligence and security Moscow Yuri Andropov, chairman of KGB, "Butcher of Budapest" circa 1981 May1981 announced to senior KGB officers that the Americans were planning a nuclear first strike to obliterate the Soviet Union, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was present Operation RYAN (acronym for raketno-yadernoye napadeniye - nuclear missle attack) was biggest peacetime Soviet intelligence operation ever launched Andropov felt best defense was attack Viktor Chebrikov, chairman of the KGB - immediately authorised 50k$ for Ames 1985 Colonel Viktor Budanov, Directorate K counter-intelligence branch by general agreement "the most dangerous man in the KGB" 1980s served in East Germany Vladimr Putin reported to him there Vladimir Kryuchkov head of the First Chief Directorate, Nikolai Gribin, department head of First Chief Directorate (FCD) circa 1983 appointed Oleg as London rezident designate (officially 28Apr1985) Leonid Yefremovich Nikitenko furious that Oleg leap-frogged him to the rezident job very [unpleasant, uncooperative] Washington DC, Soviet embassy (Washington DC) General Stanislav Androsov, alias "Kronin" Colonel Victor Cherkaskin, chief of counter-intelligence at the Washington Soviet Embassy Sergey Dmitriyevich Chuvakhin, arms control specialist and "person of interest" to the CIA 16Apr1985 Ames & Chuvakhin were to meet for drinks in Mayflower hotel Oleg Gordievsky's trip to Moscow 1985, susected of treason (p225) DARIO pre-leaving task : dead drop of 8k# for illegal alien newly arrived in Britain money had been sent in March Operation GROUND to deliver 19May1985 Oleg takes Aeroflot pane to Moscow 20May 1st morning at work : Gribin met him at Third Department meeting of officers with [Chebrikov, Kryukin] coming up, London rezident would have to present Viktor Grushko, now Deputy head of First Chief Directorate, Ukrainian, seemed tense 22May - Gribin took him to work by car 24May Boris Boracharov, 3rd Dept Directorate S (illegals), colleague of Oleg's commented that all illegals in Britain had been pulled out - KGB dismantling its network Oleg phoned wife Leila, coded message (Laila no idea- MI6 phone-tap) in trouble, not picked up! Gribin wanted Oleg to come to his dacha for the weekend - instead meet at Oleg's 27May Oleg takes one of Veronica Price's pep pills Viktor Grushko - went to separated building, gave Oleg Gordievsky Armenian brandy spike with truth seerum took Oleg to be interrogated for five hours by General Sergei Golubev, head of Directorate K Colonel Viktor Budanov, KGB's top investigator Oleg didn't confess anything, denied everything, passed out 28May again met [Golubev, Budanov] - they knew of Richard Boomhead, call to Leila was tip-off Oleg called Grushko, then Gribin - no hints either way Leila and children taken to airport in London, on basis of supposed heart problems of Oleg 29May after sleepless Oleg night Grushko summoned by phone KGB tribunal- [Gribin, Grushko, Golubev] job terminated, no telephone calls to London Oleg released under surveillance (naturally, he was already under surveillance) MI6 in London, surprised by Leila's departure - high alert for evacuation plan in Moscow Viscount Roy Ascot, chief of MI6 London station, knew some in Russian, head of Moscow station 1983 everyone referred to Oleg as PIMLICO other days Oleg to doctor - heartbeat irregular got permission to go to KGB spa (sanatorium) for two weeks dropped off signal for MI6, would look for resonse 2 Sundays later when back from spa called old colleague Mikhail Lyubimov, former KGB rezident in Copenhagen 13Jun1985 Aldrich Ames passsed named of 25 double agents for West to KGB he reasoned that the KGB would kill all of them, keeping him safe from being exposed afternoon of 13Jun met Sergey Chuvakhin in Chadwick's Georgetown restaurant released names of every important USA intelligence officer working on Soviet affairs one MI6 agent - Oleg Gordievsky (TICKLE) KGB Budanov still did not bring in Oleg, he couldn't go anywhare and might make moves to reveal things 15Jun Oleg got ready for drop-off, evaded surveillance younger sister Marina's appartment but didn't knock & visit, went on to Central Market 30Jun Oleg tries contact, fails, signals prevented by closure of St. Basils 15Jul Oleg meets again with Mikhail Lyubimov 17Jun Oleg shakes surveillance to get to Leningrad train station bought ticket for 19Jul P5 (name?) head of Soviet operational section, MI6 London Century House, got PIMLICO message Christopher Curwen, MI6 "C" - do we have a plan? Martin Shawford flew to Copenhagen to alert Danish Intelligence, then Helsinki MI6 station ******** Danish PET - Politiets Efteretningstjeneste (Security and intelligence service) Jorn Bruun, deputy head of PET allocated Jans Eriksen (Asterix) and Winter Clausen (Obelix) to Richard Bromhead of MI6 Guvnor Haavik - Norweigian woman in love with Soviet man, traitor for 30 years, rooted out from Oleg ?year? Kim Philby reviewed case in 1978 - concluded an internal KGB leak ******** MI6 Century House, MI6 headquarters in London Chris Curwen, newly apointed Chief circa Apr1985 Geoffrey Guscott (contact name for Oleg : Nick Venables) according to one colleague "Guscott probably inflicted more damage on Soviet intelligence than anyone else in history" son of printer in Southeast London, working class scholarship at Dulwich College, then Cambridge to read Russian and Czech, graduated 1961 1965 posted to Czechoslovakia Richard Bromhead, "Our Man in Copenhagen" descended from poets and adventurers, pedigreed and penniless 02Nov1973 sent Standa Kaplan (Oleg's Czech friend, long distance runner, defector) to Oleg&Yelena's apptmt Veronica Price - devised plot to extract Oleg from Russia James Spooner, head of MI6 Soviet Section circa 1981 at age 32 son of a doctor and Scottish social worker Oxford U 1st class degree in history, passion for medieval architecture Simon Brown, replaced James Spooner as Oleg's handler former head of Soviet Section P5 Oleg's information when in London 1982 Huge amount of detail, 4 years of information KGB wasn't as effective as in the past key item - Soviets believed the West would push the button p141 Rosemary Spencer of Conservative Party - key MI6 contact to build Oleg's credibility ELMEN team (the "Nadgers" - testicles) to find out who Koba was Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5 already working on LAMPAD analysis of Oleg's Denmark output became Director General of MI5 in 2002 John Deverell, Director of K, MI5's counter-intelligence branch Nadgers traced those who had access to documents sourcing Koba Michael John Bettaney - suspect, Oxford U goose-stepped & played Hitler's speeches joined MI5 in 1975, worked (a Catholic) on IRA intelligence gathering became middle-ranking officer in MI5 Soviet counterespeionage section finally confessed even if insufficient evidence - gave in confession ******** MI5 Security Service monitored all suspected KGB agents in London John Deverell, controller of SovietBloc section LAMPAD - MI5-MI6 info exchange regarding Oleg ******** CIA Bill Casey, CIA Director circa 1985 Berton Gerber, Chief of Soviet section, KGB expert with opeational experience p198 Bill Graver, Station Chief of London Aldrich Ames, Chief of Soviet & Eastern Division counter-intelligence 43 years old Milton Beardon later headed the Soviet division CIA searched for KGB agent working for MI6 zeroed in rapidly on Oleg Gordievsky, code-named TICKLE Aldrich Ames - CIA officer, traitor knew that MI6 had highly place KGB mole had been promoteed to head of CIA Soviet counter-intelligence wife Rosario used to wealthy families - spent money like crazy, financial problems for Ames 12 days before Oleg took over rezident in London, Ames offered his services to the KGB contacted Sergey Dmitriyevich Chuvakhin at Soviet embassy (Washington DC) arms control specialist and "person of interest" to the CIA meeting sanction by CIA and FBI as means to establish contact with Chuvakhin, legitimate contact 16Apr1985 were to meet for drinks in Mayflower hotel Chuvakhin didn't show, so Ames dropped off package at embassy Colonel Victor Cherkaskin, chief of counter-intelligence at the Washington Soviet Embassy immediately sent Ames' package to Vladimir Kryuchkov head of the First Chief Directorate, Kryuchkov went to see Viktor Chebrikov, chairman of the KGB - immediately authorised 50k$ for Ames 15May1985 - Chuvakhin & Ames had drink at Soviet embassy, then went to a local restaurant Chuvakhin didn't want to be involved in spy activities, but KGB forced him to because Ames approached him launched one of biggest KGB manhunts in history "... On June 13, 1985, Aldrich Ames committed one of the most spectacular acts of treason in the history of espionage: he named no fewer than twenty-five individuals spying for Western intelligence against the Soviet Union. In the month since his first payment from the KGB, Ames had arrived at a brutally logical conclusion. Any ofthe CIA's numerous spies inside Soviet intelligence could get wind of what he was up to and expose him. The only way to protect himself, therefore, was to to reveal to the KGB any and every asset who couldbetray him, so the Russians could sweep them up and execute the lot. "Then they would pose no threat". Ames knew he was issuing a death warrant for every person he named, but that, he reasoned, was the only way to ensure that he would be safe, and rich. ..." page 243 ******** Others - spies, traitors Jack Jones - secretary of British Transport and Social Workers' Union, 2M members, once largest union in West 1977 opinion poll 54% of voters considered him more powerful than the Prime Minister Spanish Civil War KGB agent, code-named DRIM (Russian "dream") Bob Edwards - left-wing Labour MP, Spanish Civil war, longshoreman Michael Foot, code-named BOOT, leader of Labour Party would become Prime Minister if Labour won election circa 1981 paid KGB agent went cold after 1968 Czech invasion, still a potential prospect after Oleg's disclosures in London, file passed to MI5 - very sensitive political situation they buried the issue, hoping Labour wouldn't win the election if elected, the Queen would be informed Stig Bergling - Swedish traitor agent of KGB for money & despise of superiors over 4 years provided 14,700 documents - Sweden's defense plans weapons systems, security codes, counter-espionage operations became head of Swedish SAPO's (security service) investigation office, colonel in in Soviet military intelligence 12Mar1979 arrested in Tel Aviv airport by Shin Bet (Israeli security service) John Cairncross, Kim Philby ring's "fifth man" p137 former MI6 officer who had confessed to being Soviet agent in 1964 several British intelligence faithful fell victim to the hunt Oleg showed it was Cairncross "... The twenty year mole hunt had been a fabulously destructive waste of time. ..." Leo Long, ELLI code-name another former intelligence officer recruited to Communist cause at Cambridge U before the war ?unknown? code-name Koba (one of Stalin's nicknames), spy within British Intelligence 03Apr1983 Akadi Guk received secret MI6 note about Titov & 2 GRU expulsions month before decided that it was an MI5 dangle, ignored it MI6 ELMEN team to find out who Koba was Vladimir Vetrov, colleague of Oleg's, code-name FAREWELL Line X - technical espionage in Paris betrayed KGB - handed over 4,000 docs, 47 KGB expulsed from France 1982 - argument with girlfriend, stabbed police officer, executed 23Jan1985, a few days before Oleg Gordievsky flew back to London ******** Incidents Korean Airlines 747 shot down 01Sep1983, all 269 dead Regan years - Soviets scared and almost ready to push the nuclear button no mention of Soviets and attempted assassination Andropov ailling with final illness, lashed out at Americans Soviet aircraft armed with nukes East Germany & Poland subs under Arctic ice to avoid detection National Union of Mineworkers strike 1984-85 KGB refused to fund request, but Soviet Communist Party funded anyways, but fund transfer blocked by Swiss bank # enddoc