Misery Loves Company: The Life & Death of Bruce Gilden Page #7

an all-time high volume.

CBS news looks at this devastating day for the market.

as the bell tolled at the end...

So how bad was the fallout?

It made a ripple, but America always bounces back.

We traced the cash back to the KGB connections--

Central foreign banks and the agents of influence

That Starik's been using all these years.

You should have been there, jack.

Tessa and Vanessa went ballistic.

They tracked down a hundred banks

That had major influences on the stock markets.

we knew that our target of five or six banks

With connections to kholstomer

Would be in there somewhere.

In the end,

We had to call in the only person in the CIA

Who would be able to recognize the invisible threads

Between the disparate names on the list.

He narrowed down the list to five bankers

In different parts of the world.

All these guys had connections to the KGB

At some point in their life,

But it was only Angleton who could see

Past the forest for the trees.

The first target was Tokyo bank international.

another bank on the London exchange.

The next two Angleton identified

As heads of prominent banks in Saudi Arabia and Johannesburg,

Both with powerful influences on their exchanges.

The last guy, maybe the ringleader--

That was Harvey's department.

i recognized the name of a bastard

Who worked with the soviets before the war.

He was running Banco Ambrosiano

Until it collapsed in the '80s.

Disappeared for a while

Only to turn up as Banco di Santo Sprito

With a whole new disguise

And even more power than before.

He was running the Vatican bank.

we think that's where Starik

Was laundering his funds.

Those Russian bastards were so naive.

They actually thought $63 billion

Would have an impact on the market.

The plan might have worked in the '50s,but now...

On average, the daily turnover

Is $1.9 trillion...

Kholstomer is over.

It's finished.

Why would i want to help the CIA, jack?

Because you'll rot for the rest of your life

In your cell, Yevgeny.

No one will know. No one will care.

We'll bury you in a pauper's grave.

Not even a going away party

For an old schoolmate?

I want you to find him for me.

Who?

You know who.

Now what makes you think that i know where he is?

We'll release you-- time served,

Send you back to crumbling mother Russia.

The KGB will keep you on ice for a while.

That's par for the course,

But they'll let you once they know

You have no agenda.

When that happen get in touch with Leo,

Then contact us and let me know where he is.

It's a simple assignment...

No shortwave radios, no codes to decipher.

Are--you're actually serious about this.

Why in the hell would i do that, jack?

The KGB is trying desperately

To hold on to its control,

Even as Gorbachev brings us closer to dtente.

We have some very disgruntled KGB employees

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All looking for asylum,

All bringing actual information.

The great game is coming to a close, Yevgeny.

Gorbachev released 3,00isoners of the state

Last October.

Azalia Ivanova was in that group.

After rattling around in prisons

And insane asylums outside of Moscow,

She served 21 years in a Siberian gulag.

And i have something else.

This is her arrest and deportation order

Straight from the Kremlin.

She was not given a trial.

It's signed by a " P. Zhilov."

I would like you to meet an old friend

Your mother's-- Pavel Zhilov.

"Starik" to my friends.

after the fall of the Berlin wall,

soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U. S. President George Bush

met in Malta.

the historical summit was a turning point

in east-West relations and viewed

as the official end of the cold war.

the meetings have continued with vows of friendship

and cooperation replacing antagonism.

the world pulled back from the fears

of nuclear annihilation that prevailed

in the '60s and '70s.

however, rumblings of discontent have been heard

from soviet hard-liners within the politburo

who feel Gorbachev is weakening

Russias stability as a world superpower.

Hello, Sasha.

Or are you back to Yevgeny again?

Come to keep me company?

You're not doing a very good job

Of hiding out these days.

What's the point?

How did you find me anyway?

KGB.

I told them i wanted to, uh...

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And they didn't seem to care.

Nobody cares about me anymore, Yevgeny.

Someone from Gorbachev's inner circle

Occasionally asks me my opinion

About something going on in America.

Somebody has replaced us on the front lines now.

Gorbachev's corroded the power of the KGB.

The KGB are chomping at the bit

To get rid of him,

Get back to their old ways.

They can't decide if he's trying

To reform the communist system

Or do away with it entirely.

It's not the Russia i grew up in.

It's not the ideal i fought for all these years.

Jack wanted me to find you.

I thought this was a social visit.

Jack's obviously got something that you want,

Or you wouldn't be here.

It's nice of you to let me know.

????

????

It's as if uncle's mind has left him

the soviet army is on the streets of Moscow...

the worst fears of supporters of democracy

have now been realized. Yeah?

It's a coup d'tat, Ebby.

I just got word that Kryuchkov

Still has Gorbachev in a dacha

Loaded up on vodka and pills.

Coup leaders are telling the world that Gorbachev

Is medically unfit to lead the country.

It's all crumbing around him.

What's the word on the streets, jack?

This is an opportunity.

To do what? To back Yeltsin.

And Gorbachev, whether or not he gets out of this thing

Has lost his balls in the coup, Ebby.

He's been castrated in the eyes of the people.

But this guy...

Yeltsin could do it.

Yeah, he wants liberal reform.

The heart of the people in his hands.

He can bring democracy to Russia if we're there

To support him. If he can take power.

Yeah, if.

Try to give me reports on the hour.

Find out what you can.

Yeah, will do.

...the movement has spoke to other cities and districts

across the country...

...have poured into the streets

in a desperate last-minute attempt

to demonstrate their support for democracy

in a country that has seen so little of it over the years.

the question on everyone's mind

is the location and condition of president Gorbachev himself.

rumors of his arrest have swept through--

Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin!

Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin!

Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin!

Yeltsin! Yeltsin! Yeltsin!

You should be more careful, comrade.

????

Do you still dislike summer so very much?

Yes,

I still dislike summer.

A face i never thought i would see.

Do you have time

To hear an apology from a friend?

Russia has changed.

I can feel it all around me.

Makes me want to...

Makes me want to keep living.

I'm glad for you, Azalia.

For me, there's, uh...

Very little to live for...

Except for you.

I'm trying to find a way to hate you...

Hate you for leaving me the way you did...

But i cannot.

I cannot, Yevgeny,

Even after all these years.

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