Tag Archive for 'KGB'

Of Your Books, Which Is Your Favorite?

Published by Pete on August 9, 2010 in Books and Personal.

Which book that you’ve written is your favorite?
It’s a question I get asked a lot.

Answering it isn’t as easy as you might think. For an author, picking a favorite book is a little like asking a father if he loves one of his children more than the others. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but when you spend several years of your life consumed in writing a book, the finished manuscript becomes much more to its creator than ink, paper, or in today’s world, electronic text.

Continue reading ‘Of Your Books, Which Is Your Favorite?’

View Comments Tags: Alan Cheuse, Circumstantial Evidence, confessions of a spy, Crazy, KGB, Lethal Secrets, Lord of the Flies, mental disorder, NPR, Phophet of Death, Super Casino, the Hot House.

A radio interview with Helen Tretyakov

Published by Pete on July 13, 2010 in Uncategorized.

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.

View Comments Tags: Helen Tretyakov, KGB, russian, Sergei Tretyakov, spy, SVR, WTOP.

Sergei Tretyakov, Nathan Hale, and Benedict Arnold? Is there a difference between our traitors and their’s?

Published by Pete on July 12, 2010 in Uncategorized.

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.

Continue reading ‘Sergei Tretyakov, Nathan Hale, and Benedict Arnold? Is there a difference between our traitors and their’s?’

View Comments Tags: Aldrich Ames, benedict arnold, Comrade J, confessions of a spy, Family of Spies, john walker, KGB, robert hanssen, russian, russian spy, sergei, Sergei Tretyakov, sergey tretykov, soviety union, spies, spy, SVR, traitor.

Sergei’s Death. Mistakes. Nonsense and a Chuckle

Published by Pete on July 10, 2010 in Books and Personal.

I’ve been a journalist for more than three decades, but I’ve never had a day like yesterday.

My morning began at 5 a.m. when I announced on my blog that my good friend, Sergei Tretyakov, had died unexpectedly on June 13th. We became good friends while collaborating on Comrade J. I posted this news after speaking several times during the week to Helen, his wife, and to several sources in the U.S. government familiar with his case.

Continue reading ‘Sergei’s Death. Mistakes. Nonsense and a Chuckle’

View Comments Tags: Aldrich Ames, Anna Chapman, AP, CIA, Comrade J, Dateline, FBI, Helen, illegals, James Jesus Angleton, JJ Green, John Walker Jr. Family of Spies, KGB, New York Post, Nosenko, Russian Femme Fatale, Sergei Tretyakov, SVR, The New York TimesWashington Post, Vitaly Yuchenko, WTOP.

Sergei Tretyakov, Russian Spy ‘Comrade J,’ Dead at 53

Published by Pete on July 9, 2010 in Books and Personal.

I am sorry to announce that my good friend, Sergei Tretyakov, the subject of my book, Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War, died unexpectedly on June 13^thin his home with his wife, Helen.

Sergei was 53.

Helen asked those of us who were his friends to not immediately reveal his death until an autopsy could be performed under the supervision of the FBI. She was concerned that Sergei’s former colleagues in Russia’s SVR, which replaced the KGB as Russia’s foreign intelligence service, might attempt to use his unexpected death for propaganda purposes.

Continue reading ‘Sergei Tretyakov, Russian Spy ‘Comrade J,’ Dead at 53′

View Comments Tags: Aldrich Ames, Boris Yeltsin, Canadian Parliament, CIA, Comrade J, dead, death, dies, Family of Spies, FBI, Helen, illegals, International Atomic Energy Agency, John Walker Jr., KGB, Kn, Ksenia, Oil for Food, Oligarchs, russian, Russian agents, russian spy, sergei dead, Sergei Tretyakov, sergei tretyakov dies, sergey, spies, spy, spy dead, SVR, Vladimir Putin.

Spy Arthur Walker Still In His Brother’s Shadow

Published by Pete on June 21, 2010 in Books and Personal.

Because I have spent much of my career writing about crime and prisons, I have gotten to know a lot of criminals, including some down right evil psychopaths. Occasionally, I get a note from a prisoner asking me to write a letter to a parole board recommending clemency.

The most recent came from Alice Lundgren, wife of Jeffrey Lundgren, who was executed by the State of Ohio in 2006 for murdering a family of five. The Lundgren cult is the subject of my book, Prophet of Death. I told Alice no.

In the past 37-years, I have written only one letter on behalf of an inmate.

Continue reading ‘Spy Arthur Walker Still In His Brother’s Shadow’

View Comments Tags: Alice Lundgren, Arthur Walker, CIA, Edgar Allan Poe, espionage, FBI, Jeffrey Lundgren, Jerry Whitworth, John Walker Jr., KGB, Michael Walker, parole board, Rita Walker, Sam Meekins, Soviet Union, spying, Stephen S. Trott, traitor, treason.

Tag Archive for 'KGB'

Of Your Books, Which Is Your Favorite?

A radio interview with Helen Tretyakov

Sergei Tretyakov, Nathan Hale, and Benedict Arnold? Is there a difference between our traitors and their’s?

Sergei’s Death. Mistakes. Nonsense and a Chuckle

Sergei Tretyakov, Russian Spy ‘Comrade J,’ Dead at 53

Spy Arthur Walker Still In His Brother’s Shadow

Tag Archive for 'KGB'

Search the Blog

Follow Me

Recent Posts

Categories

CRAZY Buzz

Helpful Links

Archives