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FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS during the height of the , Boris Aleksandrovich Solomatin oversaw most of the KGB's anti- American spy operations. The now- retired major general played a key role in the "handling" of John Walker Jr., the Navy officer who headed the most dam- aging spy ring ever to operate against the United States. Solomatin also recruited Glenn Michael Souther, a lesser-known Navy officer, who provided the KGB B PETE with some of America's EARLEY nuclear war plans before

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Q. How did you know that he was not a double agent sent by the this date I could never forget because of what followed. It was in CIA or FBI? October 1967. A. Of course they are constantly sending us double agents, people who pretend. But Walker showed us a monthly key list [codes] for Q. That is much earlier than anyone has ever reported. It means one of your military cipher machines. This was extraordinary, and that he spied for the KGB from late 1967 until mid-1985, more I immediately decided to take a major risk. Please keep in mind than 17 years. That must be a record. It also means that he be- that the resident, or KGB chief, just as a CIA chief of station, as a came a spy three months before the USS Pueblo was seized off rule, does not talk directly to volunteers who come into an embas- the coast of North Korea in January 1968. We know that the sy. But in this case, Walker was offering us ciphers [codes], which North Koreans captured an actual KW-7 cipher machine from that are the most important aspect of intelligence. spy ship. At the time, the KW-7 was the most widely used code machine in the entire U.S. military. The Navy, Army, Marines, Q. The ultimate targets? Air Force, even the CIA used it to send messages. If Walker gave A. Precisely. I decided personally to talk to him, to get my own you the codes and the North Koreans gave you the actual ma- impression, so that I could decide if we wanted to work with him chine, then you had everything you needed to read our military in the future. I should say here that I like risk—at least risks that secrets. Did they give you that machine? seem to me to be reasonable. I'm sure that without risk there can A. I don't make out of myself a man who knows everything in in- be no real productive intelligence. Hundreds of the intelligence telligence—as some former officers of the First Department who officers—ours and Americans—who do not wish to run a risk still happily live after retire- ment. Often they are simply lazy. That's one of the problems in intelligence. In ours, in yours. So I spit on all the rules and regulations and met with Walker face to face for two hours with only the two of us present. Of course, during the first meeting I couldn't be totally sure that Walker was not a double agent, but somehow I felt that he was not one. Let me explain a little bit of spycraft to you. To im- plant a double agent into a competing intelli- gence service is very difficult and expensive. Though there are many attempts at this, the success, to my opinion, as a rule, is minimal. During my career, I could have been or must have been a victim of several double- agent cases—men who pretended to be spies. But after two or three of my people's meet- ings with them, I happily recognized them for what they were. The trick for a KGB agent to avoid being fooled is first of all to know enough about America to know what is secret and what is not secret. And that question often can Boris Solomatin, now retired, lives in a building reserved for former top KGB officers. be answered by asking this question: Is the in- formation being offered to me going to damage the country of the have written their books try to do. In intelligence and counterin- person giving it? For instance, in the case of John Walker, I knew telligence only the man who is heading these services knows ev- that Norfolk was the East Coast main base for the U.S. naval erything. I am saying this because all the questions concerning ci- fleet. I didn't know at the time much, but after meeting Walker I phers and cipher machines were under another department—in a studied your Navy in detail. Also I did not and still do not know of directorate outside of mine, similar to your National Security a single instance when any intelligence service has used as a dou- Agency, which is quite separate from your CIA. But this much I ble agent a man with a sample of cryptography. Ciphers and code will say. Whether or not the North Koreans gave us a working machines are too important, too sensitive for anyone to risk, even KW-7 machine is really of no importance. How can I say this? Be- Family of Spies, if they came up with a false example. Ciphers are too serious. The cause in your own book about John Walker, your intelligence service cannot allow itself a game around such a seri- you say that he and his best friend, Jerry Whitworth, provided the ous matter. KGB with the technical drawings that we needed to construct a There is something else to remember. Even if one service is working KW-7 machine and later other code machines. Walker feeding another service rubbish, a wise intelligence officer can has admitted to your FBI that he did this. Do you understand what learn much from that rubbish. Whether they send you true or this means, the significance of this compromise? For more than 17 false information, the fact that they send anything is a clue to how years, Walker enabled your enemies to read your most sensitive they think. military secrets. We knew everything! There has never been a se- So when I saw the ciphers, which seemed to be real, I suspect- curity breach of this magnitude and length in the history of espio- ed that Walker was not a double agent. nage. Seventeen years we were able to read your cables! Everyone in the Western world knows about John Walker. Q. When did John Walker first walk into the Soviet Embassy? He There were four books about him published in your country. claims that he can't remember and the FBI has never been cer- There was a film, hundreds of news articles, and so on. Everybody tain. This date could be important. knows but the Soviet people. Nothing was ever written here. A. I am surprised that he has forgotten. I didn't keep a diary, but Why? I ask you. I ask myself.

APRIL 23, 1995 21 Perhaps for some in Russia, the 1960s and the beginning of the graphs of everyone—yet they see nothing. Okay? Seriously now, 1980s were the years of social stagnation. That is what we call it how was this possible? First of all, it took place because all of our here—no progress, no improvement, just stagnation. But as the work on our side was properly done. I should say at the highest John Walker affair shows, this was not true for the Soviet intelli- level. The work of our center in Moscow and Walker's handlers— gence service. We regularly supplied the Soviet leadership with everyone made certain that he was protected. The FBI has put first-class information. How effectively was this information used? our instructions to Walker on display. Each direction to a dead That is not for me to say. All an intelligence professional can do is drop [document exchange] was precisely written and given to him provide the information to a political leader. By the way, this prob- in three different ways to ensure that he understood them. lem is not only the Soviet problem, but I am sure the problem of your country, too. We can only give what we know to our leaders, Q. Yes, your people were very detailed. we cannot force them to act. A. We also limited the number of people who knew about him. I should say that in the center in Moscow, only the people at the Q. So was John Walker the KGB's most important spy—is very top, just a handful, were told. All of these very serious steps that what you are saying? led to the fact that there never was any A. Was he the most important? transmission of any information about him The question has been put not cor- made to the Americans. And it worked. We rectly. Each serious source has his now know that the CIA had spies working for own specialization and to choose it within our government—even in our own from them only one would not be KGB department! They could have exposed right. As far as military strategic Walker if they had learned about him. So the information is concerned—specifi- fact that Walker was never exposed by us cally information about the main shows that we did our job well. In my opin- component of the U.S. atomic tri- ion, there were actually perhaps no mistakes ad, the submarines with atomic with Walker. And he could have continued to rockets—yes, he perhaps was make us happy up until today if it were not most important. During the Cold for his own mistakes—his lavish spending, War, you were considered our his problems with his wife, etc. main enemy, and, at the time when the nerves of the rulers of both su- Q. Did you share the information that Walk- perpowers were strained to the er provided to you with any other countries? limit, it was then that we depended Specifically, did the North Vietnamese know on what Walker provided us. I will in advance about our bombing targets during quote from your own documents, the war because the KGB was reading our the memorandum for the trial that military secrets? your former director of Navy intel- A. I understand that this question is very im- ligence, Admiral [William] Stude- portant for you and there are many specula- man provided to the court. I'll tions on this subject. In my time, there was a quote: "Walker created powerful practice of handing over some intelligence war-winning implications for the information by the leading country—say, the Soviet side." You Americans like to —to the allies in the Warsaw call him the "spy of the decade." Pact or to other countries of the so-called so- Perhaps you are right. cialist camp. was not a member of the Warsaw Pact, but it was one of the so- Q. Why didn't you use this informa- called socialist camp. So the matter of trans- tion to your advantage and attack mitting this kind of information was con- the United States? trolled at the very highest level. This would A. This is a silly question. Why do only be done with the sanction of one of the you assume that this information is deputies of the chief of the First Depart- only important if we were to attack? There is an irony here, which ment. I was one of them. So I know for myself what was done. I you overlook. In a way, John Walker helped both countries avoid a will tell you then that the information which was given to our al- nuclear disaster. How? you ask. Because he enabled us to under- lies, the socialist countries, was not much. It was always told in stand your true intentions. It was impossible for you to bluff when very general terms. You can presume that we were especially ea- we were reading your cables. This helped us determine when you ger to protect a source such as Walker. were willing to fight and when you were simply puffing up your cheeks. This is an aspect of spying that often is overlooked. Some- Q. You weren't going to tip off anybody about him? times it is good that both sides know what the other is really doing. A. Precisely. The handing over to the Vietnamese, in any form, of information or data which we got from Walker was contrary to Q. How were you able to keep the Walker ring a secret for so our own interests because it could lead to him being exposed. And long? to run the risk in this would be silly. Forgive us, but here we A. I don't see anything unusual in this, particularly since we had first were thinking about our own interests. I'm sure that if the help of your side. the Americans were in our place, they would do the same. Judging from what I told you just now, you should make a writer's opinion, Q. What do you mean—because the Navy was so careless with and if you decide that the information from Walker was not hand- security? ed over to the North Vietnamese or our other allies, you will A. Not only the Navy. The FBI also. There are FBI people sitting be making the correct one. Don't make guilty a man in what he is across the street from our embassy in Washington taking photo- not guilty. continued on page 27

22 MAGAZINE CALL TODAY THIS, TOO, IS DAN'S PLAN, the Dan who still SOLOMATIN hears a different drummer, Dan the dream- continued from page 22 SWIM THIS SUMMER er: For the last few years, he has been cre- ating a role-playing adventure game with Because I understand how our different Sara and two friends. Dan believes it's bet- countries work, I will presume that there ter than Dungeons & Dragons. He has de- will be those in your country who will not vised far more elaborate charts to deter- believe me when I say that Walker is not mine the strength, charisma, constitution, responsible for your failures in bombing in dexterity, willpower, wisdom, swordsman- North Vietnam. To hell with them. I tell ship, appearance and intelligence of his you what I know, and logic should tell you game's characters. it is true. Walker was too important to us Dan has set his game in 5th century to ever risk his exposure. North America. 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But the history of our intelligence provided us with ongoing intelligence, but not act like a child who stamps the ground service shows that we always help our helped us over time to understand and study when somebody deprives him of his new friends. This is true of him and will also be how your military actually thinks. toy. I would hope your leaders remember true of men who followed him. the cases of [Oleg] Penkovsky, [Dimitri] Q. Do you believe the two men have simi- Polyakov and [Adolf] Tolkachev [Russians Q. Do you mean , who the lar personalities? caught spying for the West] and many oth- KGB supposedly still owes $1 million? A. You have met both. Perhaps you should ers. I think you should follow our example. A. You must draw your own conclusions answer your own question. [Laughs.] The We took all these defeats without hysteria here. But we do not turn our backs on our personality of Ames is not known to me, so and with dignity. friends. I cannot make any comparison with Walk- er. Still, in my opinion, one may say that Q. Yes, you also executed them. Q. Please let me ask a few more questions there is something common between these A. That was our law at the time. I do not about the Walker spy ring. John recruited personalities. First of all, both were adven- tell you what to do with Walker or with his best friend, Jerry Whitworth, his own turous types. Both wanted money. And, fi- Ames. Are there not many in America who brother, Arthur Walker, and later on nally, both of them made a lot of mistakes wish them to be executed? groomed his own son, Michael Walker, to which caused their arrests. spy. Who caused the most damage? Q. Now that the Cold War is over, do you A. John and Jerry Whitworth were both Q. Ames blames the KGB for his arrest. believe that the United States and Russia very, very important. I cannot compare be- Your people began rounding up the CIA's will stop spying on each other? tween the two of them, but my opinion is spies and executing them as soon as Ames A. The activity of both intelligence services that there is absolutely no comparison be- provided their names. He says it was like will not stop and never will. But the end of tween the information given by them and putting a big sign over CIA headquarters the Cold War gives us an opportunity to these other two fellows—the brother and that read "MOLE." put an end to uncivilized methods. Do you the son. Their information was inferior. A. My friend, Ames was not arrested until understand this? Nothing compares with ciphers, which is 1994. He began in 1985, according to his what Walker and Whitworth gave us. I do own statements. Is your CIA really so in- Q. Please explain yourself. not even remember anything of interest competent? No, it was not the KGB. Some- A. Our countries should set limits—what being given to us by the brother. thing else happened well after 1985 that can be done and what cannot be done in in- led to his arrest. telligence. There should be in existence a Q. Let's talk about Aldrich Ames, even moral and ethical code which should apply though you say that you know nothing Q. Do you mean a leak of some sort? to all countries. For instance, we should about the case. Your resume shows that w. It is not something which I know. But I fully renounce such methods as using force you were still the deputy of the First De- would like to say a few words about the at- to recruit somebody. partment in 1985 when Ames first began mosphere which was created after the ar- to spy for the KGB. rest of Ames. You will remember that all of Q. Do you mean threatening them? A. My government has never said that America was furious at Russia. You will re- A. Yes, physical threats, blackmail. All this Ames was a spy. Your CIA violated this member the angry statement that President should be excluded. We should end the use rule when Vitaly Yurchenko [a high-rank- Clinton made about our spying. You will re- of psychotropic medicines. We should not ing KGB agent] defected to the United member that he ordered several of our peo- use desperate covert actions which can and States. Director [William] Casey told ev- ple out of your country and that he even often do disturb the whole world. I'm talk- eryone that Yurchenko had become a U.S. sent a special CIA team to Moscow where it ing about the overthrowing of governments spy, and that was very foolish. It creates le- demanded to look into our very files. You and assassinations of world leaders, ex- gal problems back home for the families of will remember the angry speeches in Con- treme propaganda campaigns, terrorism. I the spy. The only reason why I have dis- gress and the threats about cutting U.S. aid. should say that many of these actions are cussed Walker is because there appeared So I would like to ask you: "What is all this hardly put into practice now, especially by some distorted stories about the Walker fuss about?" Stop and think. Do you really the new Russian intelligence. case in the books and in the press. expect us Russians to believe that there is a quiet, little, nice monastery in Langley, Vir- Q. You think the CIA uses such techniques? Q. Let me speak hypothetically: If Ames ginia [CIA headquarters], where good, A. Read your history books. Your own con- were a KGB spy, how would you compare harmless monks spend their time in gressional investigations showed that they the information that he provided to what prayers? Gentlemen, before making all did. But most practices like these are rare John Walker provided? these loud protests, better to look at your- today. It's my opinion. You may or may not A. I would not compare the Ames affair with self. Why were the Russians—who Ames agree with me. But I think so. I know how the Walker affair. Why? Because they oper- supposedly exposed—executed and jailed? it worked when I was in charge and how it ated in different fields of intelligence. Walk- The answer is simple: because they were works now. My point is this: It would be er supplied Military strategic information, ci- spying on the Russian people. And who good to have some sort of recognized stan- phers. And, judging by newspaper accounts, were they spying for? The CIA and the very dards for worldwide intelligence operations Ames mostly gave the information in the government and very president who now is for all the nations to follow in defending field of counterintelligence—the names of so outraged because Ames was caught spy- their national interests. Russians working as CIA agents. Of course, ing for us. Why is it honorable for you to spy both of these people were sources of impor- on us, but not for us to spy on you? Q. Some people say that the United States tant information, judging from the media re- One point more: In my opinion, a great and Russia should sign an agreement not to ports. But the results were much different. power like the United States should admit spy on each other. My country does not

28 THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE spy on some of its allies, such as Great His official version about how he was kid- Britain. Q. Mean-spirited? napped by the CIA is a fairy tale for weak- A. A. Yes. Mean-spirited. The main producer This is foolish talk. It is nonsense. Why? headed persons—persons such as Kryuch- Because such an agreement is not possible. of this show was Kryuchkov, who was kov, who was in charge of the KGB at the First of all, the world is interconnected. merely trying to save his own skin. Why? time when Yurchenko at first defected. Supposing we sign such an agreement, Because Yurchenko had fled under his aren't you forgetting that the United watch. They made a traitor into a victim. Q. Some in my country believe Yurchenko States is part of It's ridiculous and horrible, and if Yurchen- NATO? Is Great Britain or was intentionally sent by the KGB to the Holland, for instance, going to stop spying ko had any honor, he would confess, bare United States to help on us, too, or will it not simply exchange keep Aldrich Ames his soul, ask for forgiveness and voluntarily from being exposed. They believe that he this information with the U.S. through go to jail. came over to deflect the suspicion onto Ed- NATO? That is why such an idea is a fanta- ward Lee Howard [a former CIA employee sy. If such an agreement were signed, it who was a Russian spy]. That is why Yur- Q. So is Yurchenko the worst, or is Gor- would lead to worldwide scandals and con- dievsky? chenko was allowed to return to Russia af- flicts because no one would follow it, and ter three months without being executed. A. In truth, neither. The real and greatest when they were caught, there would be traitors in my country are the people who A. Yurchenko says he was drugged and kid- even more outrage and repercussions. have deprived me and my fellow country- men of my former motherland in which I Q. Which does a better job of spying—the was born and for which I fought and CIA or KGB? worked in intelligence. And they did this A. I must speak frankly here. Professionally, by tearing it into pieces. They destroyed I have always envied the guys from CIA, a superpower and humiliated my nation. I who, without making any efforts, get moun- consider Kryuchkov to be one of these tains of information from our former intelli- traitors. gence officers who came over to the opulent West. I have never felt that the playing field Q. Are you including people such as Mik- is level. If the CIA was deprived of its hail Gorbachev and other reformers? wealth, I do not believe that it would be as A. I am not a politician. But I look around. successful as it has been. Do not forget, we Everything has been destroyed. My father did not have as much money and yet we and mother are buried in Odessa. That is a have handed you two major defeats. Ukrainian town now. Now it's foreign land for me! Do you know what it is like to have Q. Okay, who was the Russian equivalent to go to a different country to see your par- of John Walker and Aldrich Ames? What ents' grave? I will never forgive these peo- Western spy has caused your country the ple for what they have done to my country. most damage? Whether they are communists or anti-com- A. My immediate answer is perhaps Oleg munists, I don't care. Gordievsky. [Gordievsky spied for the Brit- ish and was identified for the KGB by Al- Q. So it's not an issue of being communist drich Ames in 1985. He escaped to London, or of restoring communism, it's the idea where he still lives. In 1990, he coauthored that they dismantled your nation? a book, KGB: The Inside Story, in which he A. Three generations lived under commu- told the history of the KGB and identified nism. It failed. I admit it. It is clear that it several hundred of its agents, including Sol- was an unhappy experiment. How many omatin.] He is a common criminal and typi- times can you experiment on the lives of cal traitor who sold out his fatherland and the people? But why did we have to dis- his colleagues simply to secure for himself a mantle everything, change everything, de- comfortable life. One reason why I detest stroy everything? napped by the CIA. I don't know a single - him is that he now says that I love my country and what it was, he betrayed his proved case of kidnapping of the Soviet fatherland because he was always against though it needed some radical changes. people by Americans. It sounds good. But it totalitarianism. He mocks the real people in How would you Americans feel if the Unit- doesn't happen, and not because the Amer- this country who stayed here and fought to ed States was dismantled? If, suddenly, ican special services consist of only right- change the system without fleeing the coun- New York was a different country from eous people who would not do such a thing. try or committing treason. Washington, D.C., and you would not be al- They simply are afraid that we will retali- But there is another unpunished traitor lowed to move freely from one state to an- ate, and they are afraid rightly. in our midst. His name is Vitaly Yurchenko. other? This is the ultimate treason that I Having told the CIA all that was known I don't know the opinion of today's leaders can never forgive or forget. It grieves me to him in Washington, D.C., Yurchenko of foreign intelligence of the Yurchenko to think that the ultimate destruction of my changed his mind about staying in the Unit- case. But I will tell you my personal feel- country came not from outside forces, but ed States and asked to be received hack in ings and, as far as I know, the views of from within, by its own leaders. Yes, they Moscow. This man told the CIA valuable rank-and-file intelligence officers in the are the real traitors. information about his colleagues and sourc- ■ KGB. Forgive me for rudeness, but Yur- es. He was not sent by anyone to protect chenko is a typical son of a bitch. A clear Pete Earley, a former staff writer for the example of a traitor. There are some rea- Aldrich Ames. This is fantasy. And yet when Yurchenko returned to Moscow, he Magazine, is the author of Family of Spies, sons to think that he was preparing to flee a book about the John Walker to the West long before he did it in 1985. was treated like a hero at a mean-spirited press conference. case. He is currently at work on a book about Aldrich Ames.

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