9 He has been bankrupted by a lawsuit brought by the Estonian state to recover some of the costs of his betrayal. The sum involved, €1.28m (around $1.8m at the then exchange rate), is to pay for new cryptographic equipment and other security fittings. After some haggling, I agreed to pay his wife €2,00 for the exclusive rights to her side of the story. My original plan was to use this as a personal appendix to a book wholly devoted to her husband’s betrayal and arrest. In the event, I decided that her story was not sufficiently distinctive to deserve special treatment and that the Simm case was best covered in a wider geographical and historical context. But I have paid her none the less.
10 ‘New Documents Reveal Truth on NATO’s “Most Damaging” Spy’ by Fidelius Schmid and Andreas Ulrich, Der Spiegel, 30 April 2010 http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/,1518,691817-3,0.html
11 Details of this base, and another one in Poland, were leaked in 2009, with the accusation that they had been secret prisons for terrorism suspects. In 2002 America did press all three Baltic states to cooperate in the extraordinary rendition of terrorists, saying that their NATO chances would be blighted if they declined. Estonia said no, arguing that the torture, deportation and illegal imprisonment in its own history made it impossible to compromise in such a way. Estonian officials also worried, in retrospect rightly, that any such cooperation would not remain secret for long. The American presence in Lithuania, which dated from 2004, was remarkably conspicuous. The location was known to Vilnius taxi drivers and the supposedly secret building had been rewired at 110 volts. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978
12 This is by Simm’s account: I presume it is a detail he gleaned during his interrogation.
13 http://www.rferl.org/content/NATO_Expels_Two_Russians_Over_Estonia_Spy_Scandal/1619004.html
14 See for example ‘Russian top spy was paid also by the BND’, Der Spiegel, 12 December 2008. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-62603838.html; and ‘Spion für Russland: Es ist ein Dauerritt auf Messers Schneide’ (‘A Spy for Russia: It is a Long Ride on a Knife-Edge’); http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/,1518,704117,0.html; and Weisser Ritter (White Knight) http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-70228790.html
15 ‘ Poteyevi shpionili vsei semyei’ (‘The whole family spied on Poteyev’), 16 November 2010 http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2010/11/16/790436.html
16 See ‘Deshevniy predatel’ (‘Cheap Traitor’), 4 May 2011, by Yelena Ovcharenko and Basil Voropaev, originally from Izvestiya, but available at http://www.chekist.ru/article/3650
17 A lively account of his life and defection comes in Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War (Penguin, 2007). Like all defectors’ books, it should be taken with a degree of scepticism.
Conclusion
1 Quoted in The United States and Germany in the era of the Cold War, 1945 to 1990 , A Handbook: Volume 1: 1945–1968, ed. Detlef Junker (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 98; Dulles’ book War or Peace (1950) is available online http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=34046074
2 Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Hearing on Russian Money Laundering, 21 September 1999, testimony by R. James Woolsey http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/3516.html2
3 ‘No more Western hugs for Russia’s rulers’ by Mikhail Kasyanov, Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Ryzhkov, Washington Post, 20 February 2011; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/2/20/AR2011022002548.html
4 Cohen and Jensen, ‘Reset regret’.
A Note on the Author
Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering Eastern Europe since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna and the Baltic states. He is the author of The New Cold War (2008), published in more than fifteen languages.
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