By Nigel West

In a stunning variety of espionage instances intercourse has performed an important role_often purely within the background_possibly as a this is because a specific person has lived past his potential and is in determined want of money. FBI agent Earl Pitts bought secrets and techniques to the Soviets to ease his monetary burdens, which got here from his habitually heavy use of female and male prostitutes. Yuri Nosenko collaborated with the CIA after having misappropriated KGB cash to entertain dear girls whereas on legitimate tasks in Geneva, and Aleksandr Ogorodnik of the Soviet international ministry was once persuaded to turn into a secret agent by way of his pregnant Spanish lover, an agent recruited via the CIA. within the realm of human habit, intercourse will be the catalyst for dicy or reckless behavior. The A to Z of Sexspionage explores this habit via a chronology, an creation, a bibliography, and thousands of cross-referenced dictionary entries at the mystery businesses, operations, and occasions. From Delilah's seduction of Samson in 1161 BC to kingdom division authentic Donald Keyser's conviction of passing secrets and techniques to Isabelle Cheng, a Taiwanese intelligence officer, in 2007, Nigel West recounts the heritage of sexspionage.

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Also in March, GT/VILLAGE was recalled from the Soviet consulate in Surabaja, Indonesia, and vanished. Two months later, on 7 May, another member of the Moscow station, Erik Sites, was ambushed while attempting to meet GT/EASTBOUND. On 1 July, Vladimir V. Potashov (GT/ MEDIAN), an arms control negotiator at the Soviet Institute for the United States and Canada Studies who had spied since 1981, was taken into custody, and three days later Dmitri Polyakov was summoned unexpectedly to the Lubianka and arrested.

Apart from his relationship with Madame Szymanska, Canaris had no other direct contact with the Allies, despite speculation to the contrary, and plenty of opportunity to do so. The exercise of influence, of course, can also be a facet of espionage, and during the war some in Washington were uneasy about the extent to which prominent Americans had fallen under a nefarious spell cast by the British. Ambassador John Winant would be entranced by Churchill’s daughter Sarah, and INTRODUCTION • xxxi Averell Harriman would have an affair with Pam Digby, then married to Churchill’s son, Randolph.

In January 2006, 61-year-old Dr. Carlos M. Alvarez and his wife, 55-year-old Elsa Alvarez, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a lengthy surveillance operation and charged with espionage on behalf of the Cuban Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI) at Florida International University (FIU). The Cuban-born couple, codenamed DAVID and DEBORAH, had been recruited by the DGI in 1977 and had visited Cuba several times on educational trips sponsored by FIU’s Cuban Research Institute and Cuban Bridges.

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