The defector

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The defector

Identity Conflict

An excerpt

Arkadi Tiomkin the head of the department of illegal agents of directorate S, which illegal intelligence is under its authority; sat at the head of his department's staff weekly meeting, in his office at the SVR Yasenovo headquarters building.

Although most of his department's missions were not running in the best possible way, the way the department dealt with the American spy; that CIA agent of Russian descent, which defected and offered his services to his father land, gained him and his department the praise of the service big boss Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov.

The department's most critical issues were already discussed, and reasonable and satisfactory conclusions were drawn; it was the right time to turn the attention to the American defector's preparations, and his future tasks with the service. The main suggestion was to send him to Syria, the Damascus embassy suffered from lack of manpower; but what should be his next stage if he'll fit in and survive, and how should he serve there?

'How's the American doing and what's his nickname, do remind me Fiodor Ivanovich?' He turned to his deputy.

'Alex is his nickname we didn't intend to hide his new identity, his full name is Alexei Garin.' His deputy answered with a slight cough. He knew very well that his boss knows what the American personal details are. It was his boss usual trick to reinforce his authority.

'He's in Kazan with Alina the pretty young Tatar female, they've just settled there; and in about six weeks at the most they'll return, and he'll be sent to Damascus.'

'Did they specify what he's supposed to do there?'

'They've requested to send them able young men for security tasks of persons, body guards in fact and to guard the embassy premises.' His deputy answered him

'Was he trained to handle a gun? I mean back at the American training camp.'

'No he wasn't and from his own testimony we learned that he passed a limited training, which can't be compared with the basic training that our agents have to pass.'

'Then see that he'll be taught to handle light weapons, for a period of two weeks at least.'

'Yes sir I'll see to it in person, but I'm sure that due to the two weeks delay our Damascus embassy won't need his services anymore; we've sent them several candidates already to choose from, and the few that won't fit in will be sent back home.'

'I see so order your experts to plan two more options for our American, Alex is his name isn't it?'

'Yes sir that's his name.'

'Now then if the Damascus embassy would become irrelevant, we can send him to one of our consulates in the United States; he lived several years there and he speaks fluent English, do order your experts to prepare such an option.'

'Won't it be preferable sir to choose some other English speaking country; he's got a family in New Jersey.'

'You think that we'd better keep him longer away, yes you're right Fiodor it's a point that we should take into account; but we need to increase our efforts of intelligence gathering over there, and he could be sent as a recruiter and agents' operator. In that case I believe that sending the Tatar female with him as his spouse will solve the problem.'

'She's doing an excellent job here In Moscow sir, due to her ties with foreign diplomats; she's very sought by many of them thanks to her exceptional good looks, and assigning her to accompany Alex would be a setback to our department. You can understand sir how dependent we're on the intelligence that she alone is able to gather, and if we'll send her along with the American she'll be under Sergei's S4 department.

'Well yes we don't want to lose her Fiodor; it was just an attempt in brainstorming to reach the right conclusions.'

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