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So a Soviet soldier walked into the embassy to volunteer information to the US government
in exchange for a settlement in the US.
We were concerned that he might be a provocateur, and that his job was to expose a CIA officer
in a compromising situation.
But nevertheless it was worth the risk to see if he had something of interest.
I was chosen to go and do the, do the meeting, which, is a little nerve racking because it
was at midnight and I was on the road basically until about 10pm that evening and then spent
the next two hours on foot ensuring that I had no surveillance.
At exactly 12 midnight, I approached the pedestrian tunnel and started to make probably the longest
walk that I ever made in my entire career.
I did not know what was going to be waiting for me on the other end, whether it was going
to be the Soviet soldier or was it going to be the foreign intelligence service with a
journalist taking, filming my arrest.
Fortunately for me, it was the soviet volunteer waiting on the other end.