Guy Nespina

And I understood he was an officer.

So he could have ended up, you know, his widow and children might have had a cup of coffee in the director's office and he got a star on the wall.

at Langley, you know, but he may not have been.

But they said, the CI guys looked at this in the agency, the counterintelligence guys, and they looked broadly at operations that were running, and the one that paralleled what we were doing was my operation.

So he was working against...

an officer from the same intelligence service in the Soviet Union.

They were at about the same stage.

It was a recruitment by gradual involvement.

And he ended up, you know, I don't know, face down in the Danube or something.

I don't know, but he was killed.

Now, that's really serious in the game in those days.

You know, you don't take people out.

It's not like James Bond.

And if you lose someone like that, then people are very, very grumpy.

So you can shoot your own, but don't shoot ours, you know, that sort of thing.

So they said to me, given that your two operations look very, very similar,

And they were, at that stage, I think they probably were looking, they didn't know who they were looking for, but, you know, there were three baddies in the agency.

And they knew they had a problem.

But I didn't know that.

I was just a foot soldier.