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“And Timothy did all that?”
“Damn right. He understands how to get negotiations to work better than anyone I’ve ever met. None of the other parties knew about the double game, either. When the formal proposal was submitted, the Iranian diplomats yelled and screamed and said they would never sign it. When I saw that happen, I thought Timothy had screwed up big time, but he was two steps ahead of everyone else. He’d gotten the regime to agree to an inspection procedure, but he made sure the P5+1 proposal was slightly different. It was something about notifying six days or seven days in advance. Nobody really cared, but the Iranians wanted every word to match perfectly. So, Timothy got the proposal changed, and the Iranians accepted it, although they said it was with great reluctance. Nobody suspected a thing.”
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Several members of the senior leadership team were chatting with a group of long-time operatives.
“I never really got to know Timothy. And now I understand he’s not even here today. For his own retirement celebration. Did I just hear someone say that he’s gone?”
“Yeah. It’s a shame.”
“He had to go on travel? When did they schedule it?”
“No, not travel. Gone.”
“He’s dead?”
“No, but maybe it would have been better. Alzheimer’s. Early stage, they say, but he’s no good to us anymore. Memory is shot. Can’t trust it. Can’t trust what he remembers. Can’t even trust what he does. They say he’s living in a fantasy land.”
“That’s terrible. I’m really sorry. I was hoping to meet him today. I’ve heard so much about him. It thought maybe I could learn something.”
“You’re right. It is terrible. All I can say is that we’re all sorry. It’s a shame. A real shame. The firm will always miss him. He was our best man.”
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References
Front Matter
Epigraph: Central Intelligence Agency, approved for release December 1, 2006, https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80B01676R004000050031-1.pdf (accessed January 29, 2021).
Chapter 1
Inks: “Simplification of Ink Dating for Forensic Analysis by Thermal Microdesorption Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry,” Jan Andrasko and Ludmila Lagesson-Andrasko, Analytical Letters, Vol. 52 [6], 2019, p. 972; https://www.cia.gov/static/19587cbf1c5e761e084afd79af44bb7f/The-Assessment-of-Graphology.pdf (accessed January 29, 2021).
Graphology: “The Assessment of Graphology,” E. A. Rundquist, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, -Studies Archive Indexes, Vol. 3, No. 3, CIA historical review program, approved for release September 22, 1993; https://www.cia.gov/static/19587cbf1c5e761e084afd79af44bb7f/The-Assessment-of-Graphology.pdf (accessed January 29, 2021).
“Handwriting Analysis as an Assessment Aid,” Keith Laycock, Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Studies Archive Indexes, Vol. 3, No. 3, CIA historical review program, approved for release September 18, 1995; https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000607328.pdf (accessed January 29, 2021).
Salutation: “Analysis of writing inks on paper using direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry,” Roger W. Jones and John F. McClelland, Forensic Science International, Vol. 231 [1-3], 2013, p. 73; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.04.016 (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 11
he wrote a secret memoir as a boy: “Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald,” Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton University Library, 1965; https://books.google.com/books?id=R4WuAAAAIAAJ&newbks=0 (accessed December 26, 2020).
One such person was William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: “Rev. William Sloane Coffin Dies at 81; Fought for Civil Rights and Against a War,” Marc D. Charney, The New York Times, April 13, 2008, p. A21; https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/us/rev-william-sloane-coffin-dies-at-81-fought-for-civil-rights-and-against.html (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 12
the towpath on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal: “The Early Development of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Project,” George Washington Ward, Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Herbert B. Adams, Editor, Series XVII, Nos. 9-11, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1899; https://books.google.com/books?id=0_AsMw9VMXEC (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 13
I learned about Daniel Webster: “‘It Is … A Small College … Yet, There Are Those Who Love It.’ Dartmouth College v. Woodward,” Richard N. Current, American Heritage, Vol. 14, No. 5, August 1963; https://www.americanheritage.com/it-small-college-yet-there-are-those-who-love-it (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 18
the city of Berlin was an island: “Berlin: Island of Peace,” The New York Times, August 25, 1971, p. 36; https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/25/archives/berlin-island-of-peace.html (accessed December 26, 2020).
poured extraordinary funding into the city and its institutions: “Berlin Success Story,” Robert Kleiman, The New York Times, October 1, 1974, p. 41; https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/01/archives/berlin-success-story.html (accessed December 26, 2020).
the notorious Checkpoint Charlie: “Old Checkpoint Charlie ‘Pensioned’,” The New York Times, May 23, 1976, p. 4; https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/23/archives/old-checkpoint-charlie-pensioned-to-museum.html (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 21
International trade has flourished with those countries that were previously under the thumb of the Soviets: “Technology and East-West Trade,” Office of Technology Assessment, November, 1979, NTIS order #PB83-234955; https://ota.fas.org/reports/7918.pdf (accessed December 26, 2020).
Chapter 22
manufacturing sites for Mercedes-Benz and BMW:: “Company News; Mercedes Selects Alabama Site,” James Bennet, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 1993, p. D1; https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/30/business/company-news-mercedes-selects-alabama-site.html (accessed December 29, 2020); “South Carolina Plant Is Planned for BMW,” Ferdinand Protzman, The New York Times, June 23, 1992, p. D1; https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/23/business/south-carolina-plant-is-planned-for-bmw.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Volkswagen had already started: “VW: Growing Up in America,” Winston Williams, The New York Times, May 27, 1979, p. F1; https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/27/archives/vw-growing-up-in-america-100000-rabbits-produced-but-not-without.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Grain, Timothy. Grain and fertilizer: “East-West Trade, Embargoes, and Expectations,” Alasdair Smith, in “Issues in US-EC Trade Relations,” Robert E. Baldwin, Carl B. Hamilton, and André Sapir, editors, University of Chicago Press, 1988, p. 153-172; http://papers.nber.org/books/bald88-1 .
to put pressure on the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan: “Presidential Speeches, Jimmy Carter Presidency, January 4, 1980: Speech on Afghanistan,” University of Virginia, Miller Center, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/january-4-1980-speech-afghanistan#dp-expandable-text (accessed December 29, 2020).
KoKo was in fact a division of the Stasi: “Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski: East Germany's Back-channel Negotiator and Hard Currency Fundraiser,” Stephan Kieninger, Sources and Methods, A blog of the History and Public Policy Program, July 16, 2018; https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/alexander-schalck-golodkowski-east-germanys-back-channel-negotiator-and-hard-currency (accessed December 29).
Chapter 24
talks on disarmament:: Negotiations in Geneva; Arms Talks: The Record so Far,” The New York Times, January 7, 1985, p. A9; https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/07/world/negotiations-in-geneva-arms-talks-the-record-so-far-setting-the-scene.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
radiothermotherapy: “United States Patent No. 5,186,181” Cafiero Franco (Italy) and Jan Vrba (Czechoslovakia), February 16, 1993, https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fc/6a/45/d463dc354200f3/US5186181.pdf (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 25
A near meltdown had occurred at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvan
ia: “Radiation Is Released in Accident At Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania,” Donald Janson, The New York Times, March 29, 1979, p. A1; https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/29/archives/radiation-is-released-in-accident-at-nuclear-plant-in-pennsylvania.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Reykjavík was an exception: “Reykjavik Summit: The Legacy and a Lesson for the Future,” Nikolai Sokov, The Nuclear Threat Initiative, December 1, 2007, http://nti.org/4192A (accessed December 29, 2020).
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: “Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [INF] Chronology,” Federation of American Scientists, https://fas.org/nuke/control/inf/inf-chron.htm (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 26
extraordinarily toxic chemical munitions: “The history of chemical weapons. The shadow of Ypres,” August 31, 2013; http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21584397-how-whole-class-weaponry-came-be-seen-indecent-shadow-ypres (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 27
taking of American hostages: “Teheran Students Seize U.S. Embassy and Hold Hostages,” The New York Times (by Reuters), November 5, 1979, p. A1, https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/05/archives/teheran-students-seize-us-embassy-and-hold-hostages-ask-shahs.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
attacks by Iraq using Tabun: “Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs,” Central Intelligence Agency, October 3, 2002, https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/Iraq_Oct_2002.pdf (accessed January 29, 2021).
covert sale of arms to Iran: Document 15: White House, John M. Poindexter Memorandum to President Reagan, “Covert Action Finding Regarding Iran, (with attached presidential finding),” January 17, 1986, The National Security Archive, George Washington University, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm (accessed December 29, 2020).
Iraq continued to use nerve gas, moving on to even deadlier agents such as sarin later in the conflict: “Chemical Weapons and the Iran-Iraq War: A Case Study in Noncompliance,” Javed Ali, The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2001, p. 43; https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/81ali.pdf (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 28
a Swiss company by the name of Crypto AG: “‘The intelligence coup of the century.’ For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries,” Greg Miller, The Washington Post, February 11, 2020; https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/ (accessed December 29, 2020).
during 1989 at the Paris Chemical Weapons Conference: “Paris Conference Condemns the Use of Chemical Arms,” Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times, January 12, 1989, Pp. A1; https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/12/world/paris-conference-condemns-the-use-of-chemical-arms.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
ten-point plan for reuniting Germany: “Helmut Kohl helped save the West,” Jeffrey Gedmin, The Washington Post, June 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/19/helmut-kohl-helped-save-the-west/ (accessed December 29, 2020).
In October of 1990, reunification became official: “Germany’s Unlikely Diplomatic Triumph. An Inside Look at the Reunification Negotiations,” Klaus Wiegrefe, Der Spiegl, September 19, 2010; http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-unlikely-diplomatic-triumph-an-inside-look-atthe-reunification-negotiations-a-719848.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 29
He will be important someday. His name is Putin: “Putin's East German identity card found in Stasi archives—report. Russian president’s photo and card discovered among Soviet-era personnel files in Dresden,” Andrew Roth, The Guardian, December 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/11/valdimir-putin-east-german-identity-card-found-in-stasi-archives-report (accessed December 29, 2020).
lesser known, if not forgotten, facet of the Cold War: “Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE),” Federation of American Scientists, https://fas.org/nuke/control/cfe/index.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 30
Chemical weapons. The Conference on Disarmament is meeting in Geneva: “Looking back helps us look forward,” Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), https://www.opcw.org/about-us/history (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 31
It concerns the Crypto AG problem: “Rigging the Game—Spy sting,” Scott Shane and Tom Bowman, The Baltimore Sun, December 10, 1995; https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-1995344001-story.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Next, I turned to the Russians: “Chemical Weapons Convention Chronology,” Federation of American Scientists, https://fas.org/nuke/control/cwc/chron.htm (accessed December 29, 2020).
Russia will accept inspections: “The Birth of the Chemical Weapons Convention (and the OPCW),” Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, September 23, 2013, http://adst.org/2013/09/the-birth-of-the-chemical-weapons-convention-and-the-opcw/ (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 32
a runny nose and nausea, and I recall a tightness in my chest that made it difficult to breathe: “Chemical Weapons: A Summary Report of Characteristics and Effects,” Dana A. Shea, Congressional Research Service, September 13, 2013 (version 5, updated), p. 3; https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R42862 (accessed December 29, 2020).
They will take you through tunnel: “A Crude 1,000-Yard Tunnel Is Sarajevo's Secret Lifeline,” John F. Burns, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 1993, p. 1; https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/world/a-crude-1000-yard-tunnel-is-sarajevo-s-secret-lifeline.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
known to most as the Dayton Peace Accords: “Negotiating the Dayton Peace Accords,” Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, November 21, 2014, https://adst.org/2014/11/the-dayton-peace-accords/ (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 33
the CIA indicated a belief that Iran was in possession of nerve agents: “Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs” Central Intelligence Agency statement to the Senate, September 21, 2000, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg68305/html/CHRG-106shrg68305.htm (accessed January 29, 2021).
reported that he would join President Bush at Camp David: “Putin Foes See Erosion of Liberties,” Peter Baker and Susan B. Glasser, The Washington Post, September 26, 2003; https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/26/putin-foes-see-erosion-of-liberties/9945697c-6d79-446d-85e6-38abf502f651/ (accessed December 29, 2020).
had become President of Russia only six months before the election of George W. Bush: “Clinton Wishes Putin Well and Brings Up Chechnya,” Marc Lacey, The New York Times, March 28, 2000, p. A10; https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/28/world/clinton-wishes-putin-well-and-brings-up-chechnya.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Our invasion of Iraq had cost much good will: “A Nation at War: International Reaction; Crowds Protest Iraq War in Cities Around World,” Susan Sachs, The New York Times, March 22, 2003, p. B9; https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/22/world/nation-war-international-reaction-crowds-protest-iraq-war-cities-around-world.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 34
claim that Iran had built nuclear facilities in the cities of Natanz and Arak: “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status,” Paul K. Kerr, Congressional Research Service, December 20, 2019 (version 55, updated), p. 6; https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL34544 (accessed December 29, 2020).
the P5+1 talks: “China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues,” Shirley A. Kan, Congressional Research Service, January 5, 2015, p. 8; https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL31555.pdf (accessed December 29, 2020).
inalienable right to conduct nuclear research and development for peaceful purposes: “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT),” United Nations, Office for Disarmament Affairs, 1970, Article IV.1, https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/text (accessed December 29, 2020).
Years of hard work, and everything was back to zero: “Timeline of Nuclear Diplomacy With Iran,” Arms Control Association, 2003-2005
, https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Nuclear-Diplomacy-With-Iran (accessed December 29, 2020).
Iran nuclear deal: “Iran Nuclear Agreement: Selected Issues for Congress,” Kenneth Katzman and Paul K. Kerr, Congressional Research Service, August 6, 2015; https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R44142.pdf (accessed December 29, 2020).
described as a nuclear accident: “A Silent Attack, but Not a Subtle One.” John Markoff, The New York Times, September 27, 2010, p. A6; https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/technology/27virus.html (accessed December 29, 2020).
Chapter 35
Alger Hiss: “Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92,” Janny Scott, The New York Times, November 16, 1996, p. A1; https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/16/nyregion/alger-hiss-divisive-icon-of-the-cold-war-dies-at-92.html (accessed December 29, 2020).