Misery Loves Company: The Life & Death of Bruce Gilden Page #2

That i have put on

The back burner for 13 years.

You need the patience

Of a saint

For counterintelligence,

Nurturing seemingly...

Meaningless bits of data,

Amassing

And collecting thousands

???

And creating an interlocking...

Picture, which really only

Comes into focus

Through your own interpretation.

And all the while,

You hear voices

Whispering behind your back.

"mother's obsessed,"

They say,

"paranoid.

A conclusion searching

For confirmatory evidence."

Believe me...

I heard it all.

I heard every word.

The information, mother.

I always knew...

If we could find Sasha's cutout,

We could find Sasha,

And that is what Ive been

Waiting for all this time.

In 1961,

The FBI stumbled across

An old communist

Named Max Cohen,

A.k.a. Kahn.

Who lived above his store,

Who delivered liquor

To hundreds of clients

In the Washington area.

The cutout went by the name

Of Dodgson,

Which curiously...

Is the real name

Of Lewis Carroll,

Author of

"Alice in Wonderland."

Makes you wonder if Starik

Isn't, like Lewis Carroll,

Creating worlds within worlds

For all of us

To get lost in.

Dodgson got away, but i didn't forget

??? Noment.

All these years,

Nurturing bits of data,

Seemingly meaningless pieces

Of evidence.

You have to have the patience

Of a saint.

James.

I looked over Kahns

Delivery invoices

For the past ten years

And discovered

That sometime in the '50s

Dodgson had been delivering

To a double agent,

My friend

And former colleague

Adrian Philby.

With Philby gone,

It seemed logical to suppose

???

For Philby's replacement.

What, his replacement?

Sasha.

Starik knew

He could sacrifice Philby.

Sasha was still delivering

Valuable information.

Cheking through Kahns clients

Who had been on the receiving

End of deliveries

During the previous ten years,

I was able

To identify the names

Of 167 full-time

Company employees

And 64 contract employees.

you matched

The liquor delivery list

Against the names

Of company employees

Who were currently

Out of the country

Whose last names

Began with k

And who spoke Russian?

That's pretty

Damn clever, James.

It seemed too good

To be true.

It was.

None of the names

Cross-referenced.

It may have looked

Like a dead end

To the ordinary eye,

But not to mine.

Last Saturday, as my wife

Was on the telephone

Making restaurant reservations

In her maiden name...

tonight at 8:
00.

Security precautions...

Under the name Deautremont.

Oh, yes.

Sasha could have a wife.

Yes. Yes.

Sasha could have his wife

Order the liquor from Kahns

Using her maiden name.

In the six years

Between Philby's disappearance

And Max Kahns arrest,

I've compared the maiden names

Of the wives

Dodgson had delivered

Liquor to

Against the suspects

From the pinnacle leads.

That's brilliant.

So what maiden name?

You're not going

To like it.

What?

Was it great?

Tell me everything.

Oh, it was wonderful--

The French countryside,

The food, the wine,

Everything except for the part

Where father went off

To get cigarettes

And got completely lost.

What happened, daddy?

Oh, your mother thought

I had a brief encounter

With a local peasant girl,

But really, i just couldn't

Understand the directions

People were giving me.

Mm-hmm.

Well, Im not quite convinced

That he didn't have an affair

With a French girl.

I can't speak French

Well enough to order lunch,

Let alone lure

Some stranger into bed.

Mr. Kritzky?

I've been instructed

To hand deliver

This eyes-only letter

To you, sir.

What is it, daddy?

The director wants

To see me right away.

Doesn't say why.

Sir, i have

Transportation waiting.

What department

Are you with?

I'm with the department

Of internal security, sir.

What's going on, Leo?

I don't know.

I'm gonna find out.

Erika, will you drive

Your mother home?

Sorry, darlin'. I'll be home

In time for dinner.

Hey!

What is this?

Lean forward, Mr. Kritzky,

???

I will not,

You little bast...

Place your clothes

On this table,

One article at a time,

Very slowly.

Start with the left shoe.

???

???

No talking.

We must search your clothes,

Then do a cavity search.

A cavity search?

This--this is absurd.

You call William Colby,

D. C. I., immediately.

You tell him that Leo Kritzky

Is being held here.

He'll clear up any confusiving.

???

Now shall we start again,

Mr. Kritzky?

Your left shoe,

Slowly, please.

How about...

Begin with your father?

Jim,

It's me, Leo.

Leo Kritzky.

Start with your father.

Can i have

Some water, please?

Water in the bowl.

???

You're crazy if you think Im

Gonna drink out of a toilet.

When you get thirsty enough,

You will.

Bill, for chrissakes, this has

Got to be a blind alley.

I've known Leo since Yale.

We rowed together.

We roomed together.

I'm the godfather his children.

I-i-i would stake

My life on him.

And what

If it's true, jack?

It isn't.

It can't be true.

All those ops that

Went sour on Torriti,

Your assets in Berlin,

The professor...

That ballet dancer--what was

Her name? Rainbow, sniper?

Rainbow?

Kritzky worked

With the wiz in the '5

He knew every detail about

Your mission in Budapest, jack.

He was Bissell's right-hand man

During the bay of pigs.

Who better?

Who better

To be a KGB mole

Than the man running

The soviet division?

This kind of thing's

Happened before--

Fee was

A e slative aide

???

???

Just imagine the kind of inside stuff

He could have gotten

On Vietnam.

Makes me sick

To my stomach.

Weeks, months...

It's really no skin

Off my nose.

I'm not in any hurry.

U like to begin

With your father,

Or should i

Come back tomorrow?

You son of a b*tch.

My father's name

Was Abraham Kritzky.

He was born in

The Jewish quarter of Vilnius

In November of 1896,

Emigrated to America

In the 1910 pogroms.

Go on.

He got a job

Working at

The triangle shirtwaist factory

Sewing bands inside hats.

He was there when the famous

Fire of 1911 broke out

And killed 150 seamstresses.

He got out with his sewing

Machine strapped to his back

When firemen hacked open

A locked fire door.

Did the experience

Make him bitter?

Yeah. Of course

It made him bitter.

Did it turn him

Against capitalism?

Jim, you know,

I-i went over all this

When i was recruited.

The company knows everything.

There are no secrets.

My father's a socialist.

It's common knowledge.

He was a bleeding heart,

Which wasnt a federal crime?

Until the house un-American

Activities came along.

You were born

October 29, 1929,

The day that the--

The day that

The stock market crashed.

Are you gonna something into t

By then, your father

Had started a small business.

The crash wiped him out.

Yeah. The banks

Called in his loans.

He'd bought the brownstone

On grant street,

And he lost it.

He lost everything.

And then what happened?

I could come back tomorrow

After my

If you'd prefer that.

He jumped off

The Brooklyn bridge.

They found his body

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