The Kremlin Letter Page #6

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so you can have a promotion.

The kital sent for me, and we've done a deal.

These were chang's customers.

It's an interesting list.

Includes three military

heroes, a director of ballet...

And aleksel ivanovitch bresnavitch.

God knows if, after all this time,

They've still got the monkey on their back.

But i'll soon find out. And you know what?

Kital offered to pay me for

information about czechoslovakia.

I'd say he's in the same business as we are.

To the newlyweds.

You are as pretty as they say.

You were colonel kosnov's agent in paris?

Yes.

It's dangerous work for a woman.

If you believe in a cause,

danger is not frightening.

I could never be an agent. I

just wouldn't have the courage.

And i wouldn't have the duplicity required.

They say that you married an enemy agent...

And brought him back to

russia to be captured.

I married the man polakov...

On orders from colonel kosnov.

My mission was to stay with

him and learn of his activities.

But, uh, why would he come here

if it wasn't because of you?

I'm afraid that's classified information.

I assume we are all above suspicion, colonel.

I'd like to hear your wife's answer, too,

If it's permissible.

Our counterespionage said...

Polakov would come to moscow to make

contact with a high soviet official...

Willing to give information to the west.

No! Is it true?

It turned out to be false lead.

He came to moscow to introduce

me to his mother and his sister.

I'd married him in vain.

Darling, next time you

have your wife get married,

I hope it will prove more productive.

Is that true, colonel?

Is that the reason polakov

came to moscow in september?

Yes, but he was here before, and

it aroused my suspicions then,

So when i knew he was in moscow

again, i had him picked up.

Yes.

Shall we leave the gentlemen? Perhaps

you'd like to see some of the paintings.

Yes. Why not?

Well, kosnov,

If this man polakov was,

indeed, in contact...

With some defector of high rank,

We want that traitor found as much as anyone.

But

- He will be found.

We are still more concerned

about internal security.

This incident near vorkuta-

The two men in the van-

It is your opinion that they were enemy

agents sent in to contact the traitor?

Yes. Most likely they were.

After the police laboratory

had finished with them,

Just as a routine double-Check,

Comrade kazar and i had

the two corpses taken...

To another group of doctors, colonel.

Your report, the official report,

Claims that the two men died in the crash.

But according to our doctors,

This was only true of the

agent called the highwayman.

Charles rone was dead...

Before the fire began.

Dead and frozen, colonel.

That is possible.

Uh, this highwayman used to work...

For the notorious sturdevant,

And as you know, sturdevant had a pattern.

He began every operation

with a diversionary move.

And you think that is what happened here.

Well, if our doctors are right, colonel,

A dead man was carried into this country.

The second man was to have

left the corpse as a decoy...

To divert your attention

to a specific area...

And then escape.

We did observe there was a difference

of degree in the burning of the bodies.

But the highwayman was

pinned behind the wheel.

Rone was thrown to the floor.

Flames from the explosion melted the snow.

The water collected around him in a pool.

His body had to be chopped

out of a solid block of ice.

It is quite conceivable

that under these conditions,

He would appear to have

died a little earlier.

If there was a slight variation of time,

It is of very little importance.

Indeed.

Well, shall we join the ladies?

As to sturdevant's so-Called

pattern, i can tell you this:

He never sacrificed a single man...

On a diversionary move.

Perhaps you know more about him than i do.

Your husband's been reminding

us of a spy called sturdevant.

After the war, his men ran

wild over eastern europe.

It was almost impossible to flush them out.

Still, your husband... succeeded.

I love to hear about spies.

Do tell us about it, please.

It was a long time ago. I'm not

sure of the details any longer.

The colonel is too modest.

Imagine-

All he actually knew was that

three of sturdevant's men...

Were in a small polish village.

Correct? I think so.

He had to determine which of the 2,300

people in the village were the three wanted,

So he rounded up the entire population,

Began to interrogate...

And execute each of them one by one.

Then it seems that,

When your husband started

killing the children,

One of sturdevant's men

tried to make a run for it.

He was caught, of course.

Your husband was able to make him talk,

As... only he can.

Struck it quite rich. He was a unit

leader in charge of the entire operation.

Was it chemicals you used...

Or physical persuasion, colonel?

And that fellow polakov-

What did you use on him? Acid, wasn't it?

I heard that's like pouring

molten lead down a man's throat.

How long was he able to stand up

under torture like that, colonel?

Don't worry, colonel. She'll be all right.

After all,

A wife has a right to know

exactly what her husband...

Contributes to society.

Will you please excuse me?

Do you remember me?

I remember.

Can you get me something to smoke?

You know what i mean. Yes, i do.

I'm in great pain.

Can i be of any service?

I want something strong to smoke.

I see.

And i want a man. A real man.

Come with me. It will be arranged.

You haven't seen me.

Swear! You haven't seen me.

Shh.

How do you like him?

A male whore?

From tiflis.

Yorgi. His name is yorgi.

Wait till i'm ready.

Get out.

Come here.

How much?

Twenty-Five rubles.

For what?

No one complains.

You have a bad nose. Your

chin juts out too far.

I don't like your ears.

Then i'll go.

I'll give you 15.

My price is 25, in advance.

And what do you charge men? Hmm?

That's for others. I specialize in women.

Old, fat, ugly ones, huh?

All women are beautiful, if

you know how to look at them.

Am i beautiful?

You'll do.

Oh, will i now? I guess your

own girl is prettier than i am.

- She's more polite.

- Is she more beautiful?

No.

That's a good little

whore. Here's your money.

Kiss my foot. Your shoe's on.

Kiss my shoe.

Now it's your turn to hurt me.

We will reenact that old, old game.

Woman and man. Victim and tormentor.

Only we'll play it honest.

Help to destroy me, and i'll love you for it.

Hit me! Hard!

You're beginning to learn, huh?

Hit me again.

Kick me!

Kick me!

You're the whore, the slave!

You must do as i command.

Get somebody else.

My little priest doesn't

like the game of life.

Okay! We'll find something else to do.

Come here!

Take your jacket off.

Your tie!

Your shirt.

Now don't move.

No matter what i do, don't move.

Ooh. Poor lover.

Look what i've done to you.

Poor little whore and husband.

Kill me.

Kill me!

Or i'll kill you! So help me god, i will!

Hoo-Wee! What a break.

Kosnov's bride. Nephew,

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