Misery Loves Company: The Life & Death of Bruce Gilden Page #3

Washed up under the pier

The next morning.

Did capitalism

Kill your father?

No. My father

Killed himself.

Did capitalism

Kill your father?

Capitalism in the '20s and '30s

Created conditions

That caused a great many people

To kill themselves,

Including the capitalists,

Who threw themselves out

Wall street windows in 1929.

Are you gonna interrogate

Their sons?

Hmm.

Jim,

My wife is gonna

Start asking questions

When i don't turn up

At home.

By now the director

Will have phoned Adele

And apologized profusely

For packing you off to Asia

On such short notice.

"something's come up,"

He will have told her.

"you'll untandi t

Provide details, Mrs. Kritzky."

Your wife will take

The news bravely, of course.

She will inquire

As to when you

Might be returning.

Well, when might

He be returning?

uh, it could

Take some time.

The director

I've instructed him

To maintain radio silence,

So he may not be able to speak

With you anytime soon.

But rest assured, i will call

U personally, Mrs. Kritzky,

When i have more

To tell you.

She might say, "will he

Be in any danger?"

Will he be in any danger?

None whatsoever.

"none whatsoever,"

The director will assure her.

You have my personal word

On that.

"you have my personal word

Thank you,.

mommy!

???

???

Papa.

Yevgeny.

???

olive? Afraid

I'm out at the moment.

Twist? Haven't got that,

Either, old boy.

Got ice--

Plenty of that in Moscow.

Starik sends you around

To check me.

Eugene--is that what

You call yourself?

No. Starik doesn't

Even know that Im here.

I brought you these.

Oh.

Well, that's awfully kind

Of you, Eugene.

I do love to check up

On the ladies from Savile row.

Good lord.

Prices have skyrocketed.

How's Russia treating you?

I can get anything

I want in Moscow.

Easy as falling off a log.

Just draw up

A shopping list--

M-m-mango chutney

From Harrods

And beluga

From the Caspian.

It's more upscale than

Your average English slammer,

Mind you.

I first saw the light

Of communism

Way back in Cambridge,

But never

In my wildest dreams

Did i imagine

I'd be living here.

I never thought

I'd be living in America.

They tell me i need

Round-the-clock minding

To prevent mi6

From knocking me off,

But what they're

Really afraid of

Is that Jimbo Angleton

May have turned me

Ple agt.

By god, if i was

A triple agent,

I'd be up nights

Trying to figure out

Which side Im working for.

Starik didn't send you

To check up on me?

I miss

The great game, Eugene.

Well, thanks

For the drink.

Come back and see me again

Before you go b-back,

Won't you?

Love to chat about

What's happening these days

In the colonies,

As it were.

Yes, i-Id like that.

Good-bye.

Let me take a look at

This hero of mother Russia.

Not changed, Yevgeny.

For a long time, i have

Been planning kholstomer.

Since the 1950s,

The KGB has been retaining

Hard currency

From the sales

Of our national gas Coany,

As well as oil sales abroad,

And placing the proceeds

Into shell companies.

E amount in these shells

Now total more

Than 63 billion

In American dollars.

$63 billion?

The beauty of kholstomer

Is that the dollars

Are held in banks

In the city of New York.

The abrupt sale

Of our $63 billion

Will suck in people

And institutions,

Speculators from

All over the world,

Asian and European

Central banks

And the American

Stock market itself.

???

Yes. Can you see

It now, Yevgeny?

Americans, British, French--

The whole Western world

Will suffer

An economic holocaust,

And the peoples

Of these nation rising up

To demand a government

Of equality of workers.

All these nations crying out

For change, Yevgeny,

For communism!

With the CIA crippled,

American minds will be open

To our campaign

Of communist ideals,

And the soviet union's example

Of equality, commonality

And hope for the good

Within us all

Will shine like a beacon

For the world to see.

I know

That you are lonely,

Homesick and at times,

You may wonder

If this is all worth it.

It is, Yevgeny.

And the soviet people

Need you to go back,

Back to the front lines

For one last battle.

???

do the initials "l. K."

In the upper right-hand corner

Look familiar?

Jim,

I think

That i need a doctor,

Because i--

When i pull on my hair,

It comes out in clumps.

They never turn

The lights off,

And it's driving me insane.

Your name turns up

In a great--

A great number

Of op orders

???

???

Let's go thrhem

One by one.

Ease, please stop.

Just...

Please stop.

Please stop.

Did you betray jack McAuliffes

Assets in Berlin--

Code name rainbow,

Code name sniper.

God, no.

He's my best friend.

Ah. Did you betray the Cuban at the bay ???

They turn these lights up

Brighter when you leave,

And it's burning

Right through my eyelids,

And i can't sleep.

Please, Jim.

Just let me sleep.

I-i can't sleep.

Oh, please,

Let me sleep, Jim.

Only tell the truth,

And Ill let you sleep

As long as you want.

So what am i supposed

To do, jack?

I can't put a time limit

On mother. It's impossible.

He's been chasing shadows

Since Philby was exposed.

He's decimated the company's

Entire soviet division

In this obsession.

We don't even know if Sasha

Exists outside of his head.

Jack, if you don't believe at ests,

Then your defector pinnacle

Can't be the real deal.

So which is it,

???

???

But the most deceptive orchids

That survive.

Moecies

Depend upon their ability

To misrepresent themselves

???Nsts.

???

???

And then spreading their pollen

To other orchids.

this Trichocereus orchid

So perfectly mimics

The underside

Of a female fly,

Down to the hairs

And even the odor.

It actually triggers

A mating response

In passing male flies.

Jim, i need to know if

Your judgment has been clouded.

Jack...

Deception is everything.

It's an agart, arcane,

??? Derestimated by kings

And leaders.

Our very survival

Depends upon our ability

To see the truth

That lies behind

This subterfuge.

Counterintelligence

Is the weapon

We will put our faith in

In order to win

This cold war.

Leo would never betray us.

As i once thought--

My best friend,

A double agent?

That's absurd beyond belief.

But i was deceived.

We were all deceived

By his,

???

???

Did you want him

Telling the world

At ima ?????

That James Angleton was giving

Him top-secret files?

???

???

Maybe you warned Philby. Thou would want.

Told him to run.

The damage was done,

But he could do a lot more

Damage to you, Jim,

A lot more.

All those lunches

At la Nioise.

LKG secrets

That went from your mo

Starik's ears--

Scandalous.

???

???

Well, my, my.

You certainly are

The sorcerys apprentice.

Before Adrian...

Betrayed me,

I always knew where i was.

Now Im lost.

We're all lost, jack.

We're lost in the wilderness

Of mirrors.

my superior--

He had much to drink

Three nights before.

He left safe open.

While he was sleeping, ok inside files.

I see something that

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