The Spy Who Was Left Behind
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Pullara’s prison interview with, 135–38
Pullara’s request to Saakashvili for justice for, 1, 2–3, 193–94
Pullara’s television interview on, 153–54
reenactment of the shooting and, 21
return to prison after release, 316
Sakvarelidze on trial of, 70–72
television debate with Gogoladze on, 175–80
torture of, 8, 30, 42–43, 44, 45, 55, 70, 72, 117, 137, 152, 182, 249–50, 252
trial and conviction of, 6–7, 15, 27–45, 74, 279
US acceptance of conviction by, 36, 132, 222–24, 253, 254
visit to family home of, 246–47
witnesses on innocence of, 245–46
Woodruff family’s intervention request with new evidence and, 74–75, 84, 90–91, 117–18, 122–23, 137, 144–45, 148, 153, 217
Woodruff petition and safety of, 194, 196, 197, 198
Shavishvili, Kote, 304–08, 313–14
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 55, 260
Ames’s meeting with, 132
assassination attempt on, 7, 77, 114–15, 128, 130, 237, 240–41
documentary on Sharmaidze investigation and, 249
FBI investigation of Woodruff’s death approved by, 17, 54
Georgian government and, 104, 106–09, 111–16, 134–35, 189–91, 240–41
Giorgadze’s relationship with, 240–42
Gogoladze as bodyguard for, 3, 5, 8, 21, 57, 77, 110, 129, 134, 168, 248, 306
interview with, 133–35
narcotics trafficking and, 230
Rose Revolution and, 83, 190
Saakashvili’s return to Georgia and, 189, 190–91
US mission to develop protection force for, 15–16, 109–10
Woodruff’s murder and, 3, 4, 131, 260, 299
Shukin, George, 9–10, 15, 17–18, 170, 216, 302
Sigua, Tengiz, 106
60 Minutes (television program), 197–98, 199, 200
Soros, George, 190
Soviet Union. See also Russia
CIA intelligence operations in, 47–48, 49
FBI sources in, 48–49
Georgia and, 99–100, 101–02, 104, 105–06, 108–09, 111, 112–14, 115–16, 187–88
Howard’s espionage for, 48, 54
Woodruff’s background experience in, 95, 96
Spry, Dell, 206–12, 248, 256, 285, 287, 293, 302, 303, 308, 312, 313
SVR. See also KGB
Ames’s relationship with, 321–22
archives on Woodruff’s death and, 227–29, 230
Georgia on Woodruff’s death and involvement of, 7, 8, 64, 232
Georgian government and, 233
Giorgadze and, 239–40
narcotics trafficking and, 229–30
Woodruff’s assassination and motivation of, 321–22
Talbott, Strobe, 212
Tefft, John, 254
Tserekashvili, Giorgi, 195, 196, 283
Tserekashvili, Lali, 284
Tserekashvili, Tamaz, 165–66, 183, 194–95, 283
US Special Forces, 4, 15–16, 60, 108
US State Department, 52, 189
FBI investigation of Woodruff’s death and, 6, 16, 81
FOIA request to, 8–9, 28, 54
Georgian letter requesting US help and, 215–16, 221, 222
Vardiashvili, Eteri (“El.”), 195, 196, 277–78
Vasiko (witness), 280, 281
Wall Street Journal, 7, 293, 297, 299
Whitlock, Lynn, 28, 30, 36, 195
Woodruff, Chery, 87, 88
Woodruff, Dorothy, 88
Woodruff family
Arkansas background of, 87–88
intervention request with new evidence by, 74–75, 84, 90–91, 117–18, 122–23, 137, 144–45, 148, 153, 217
motivation of, 153, 160–61, 165
petition for intervention filing and, 160, 164–65, 171, 217
Woodruff, Freddie
CIA employment of, 3, 4, 5, 9, 23, 88, 93, 94–95, 109, 202
complicated character of, 1–2
cover story of, 3
earlier interview on background and experience of, 91–97
family background of, 1, 87, 88
Georgian official version of death of, 4, 5–6, 7–8, 10, 54, 60
Georgian protection force and, 16, 109–11
gun carried by, 208, 303
narcotics trafficking investigation by, 7, 49–50, 82, 122, 207–08, 230
newspaper stories on death of, 3–4, 5, 49
Russian organized crime’s focus on, 210
Shevardnadze on, 4, 248
as spy who was left behind, 131, 322
training of Shevardnadze’s security force by, 4
Woodruff, George, 87–88
Woodruff, Georgia. See Alexander, Georgia Woodruff
Woodruff, Jill, 87
Woodruff, Meredith, 88, 90, 148
Woodruff murder investigation
American embassy political officer and, 254–55, 257
Ames-Woodruff connection in, 7, 49–50, 53–54, 55, 64–65, 90, 132, 206, 230, 231, 232, 235–36, 311–12, 314–16, 321–22
autopsy findings in, 24–25, 36, 64, 145–46, 119–21, 145–46, 184, 194, 216
ballistics evidence in, 34–35, 40–41, 120–21, 123–26, 145–46, 169–70, 185–86, 194, 220, 249, 300–01
beneficiaries from Woodruff’s death and, 61–62
car examinations in, 17–18, 121, 124–26, 146, 220–21, 249, 255, 268, 276, 301–02
CIA national security interests and, 24
conspiracy to frame Sharmaidze and, 130–31, 170, 220, 246, 299
crime scene sketch in, 19
documentary on Sharmaidze investigation and, 245, 248–53, 255–56
eyewitness interviews and, 165–71, 172–73, 195–96, 259–76
fabricated and planted evidence and, 170, 194, 230, 249
FBI identification of shooter and, 205, 208–12
FBI investigations and, 6, 17–24, 36, 50
FBI report on, 45, 60–63, 81, 121, 183, 194
FOIA requests in, 8–10, 55, 122, 221, 308
forensic evidence in, 21–22, 25, 34–35, 60, 79, 118, 120–21, 130, 146
Georgia’s investigation file and, 51, 56, 73, 122, 212, 243, 257, 302
Georgia’s reinvestigations of Sharmaidze conviction and, 199–200, 213–16, 220–23, 245, 246, 316
Gogoladze’s return home after shooting for change of clothes and nap and, 19, 31, 33–34, 56, 80, 168, 248–49, 303, 319
guardians on Old Military Road described in, 279–80, 303–04
gun used in shooting and, 302
hospital stops to deliver Woodruff’s body and, 9–10, 21, 31, 57–58, 79, 146, 248–49, 262, 263, 268–69, 281, 303
informal relationships among players in, 128–29
investigators’ travel authorizations explored in, 51–52, 62, 64–65, 309
journalists’ articles on, 91, 121–23, 149–50, 160–62, 167, 224–25, 293–97
KGB officers’ interviews in, 229–38
Lamborn’s research and, 312–16
location of shooting and, 19–21, 75–76, 81, 247–48, 303–04, 320
motivation of SVR and, 321–22
official eyewitness interrogations and, 257, 259–76
petition for intervention filing in, 159–61, 162, 164, 171
petition hearing in, 171–72, 181–87, 192, 194–96
professional planning and shooter theory in, 59–60, 131, 210–11, 307, 311, 313–14, 316, 317, 319
Pullara’s request to Saakashvili for justice in, 1, 2–3, 193–94
Pullara’s visits to murder location in, 75–76, 247–48
Rachman as shooter in plot to murder Woodruff, 319–21
reason behind Woodruff’s murder and, 317
rigor mortis and time of death and, 10, 146, 184
Russia’s involvement in Woodruff’s murder and, 220, 224, 232–33, 260, 285, 307, 310–11, 315–16
search for real killer in Russia and, 225, 227–40
sister Georgia’s file on, 91
60 Minutes proposal on, 197–98, 199, 200
statements from witnesses on Old Military Road and, 277–85, 303–04
television debate with Gogoladze and, 173–79
television interviews on, 150–55
time line constructed from FBI documents in, 13–15
time of shooting and, 22–23, 146, 148, 195, 262, 268, 275
US acceptance of Sharmaidze conviction and, 36, 132, 222–24, 253, 254
US government errors and omissions and, 322
US knowledge of Woodruff murder and, 131–32
video on Kapanadze’s involvement and, 200–02
Woodruff’s camera with exposed film and, 23, 57–60, 207–08, 261, 272
Woodruff’s narcotics smuggling investigation and, 7, 49–50, 55, 82, 122, 207–08, 229–30, 311, 314
Woolsey, James, 49
Ames’s espionage arrest and, 7, 132
Woodruff’s death and, 5, 131
Yeltsin, Boris, 61–62, 105, 132, 233, 289
Zhvania, Zurab, 189, 216–17, 220, 242, 291
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