I was asked by a reader to post this Missing Person’s Poster and am happy to do so. This is every parent’s nightmare — a child off medication disappears. For updates, you can visit the family’s Facebook page.

Daniel Goldstein
Name: Danny Goldstein
Age: 34 (date of birth: 7 August 1976)

Because there has been much speculation about Sergei Tretyakov’s death, I am posting this link to an interview with his wife, Helen. Click here.

The CIA turncoat,
Aldrich Ames told me that one country’s traitor is another country’s hero.
But is that true?
Ames said it was true because the end result was betrayal — the breaking of an oath and allegiance to one’s homeland.
The producer who interviewed me for DATELINE about Sergei Tretyakov told me today that I will NOT be on the program Sunday when it airs. The show is about the ten Russian illegals who were shipped back to Moscow and since I told DATELINE that Sergei Tretyakov was not responsible for tipping off the FBI about the case (read this post), I am ending up on the cutting room floor.
I guess I should have fudged.
Meanwhile if you want to read more about Sergei and his career check out these stories:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
There is also more information in my book, Comrade J. The piece of literature in which Sergei and I became friends as well as collaborators.

When I was a Washington Post reporter, I did not believe in joining groups or organizations. I needed to be independent in order to be objective. Then my son, Mike, got sick and the first thing I did after I finished writing my book, CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, was join the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI.)
Why?
Continue reading ‘NAMI Changed My Life’