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Komitet; he was the initial conduit to the American enterprise known to
him alone in Moscow as Medusa, through which extraordinary shipments,
had been made throughout Russia and the bloc nations. On the other hand,
he was also a liaison to the monseigneur in Paris, Carlos the Jackal,
whom he had either persuaded or bought off from contracts that might
point to the Soviet Union. He had been the ultimate bureaucrat, working
behind the scenes on the international stage, seeking neither applause
nor celebrity, merely survival. Then why had he done what he did? Was it
mere impetuousness born of weariness and fear and the sense of a
plague-on-both-your-houses? No, it was a logical extension of events,
consistent with the needs of his country and, above all, the absolute
necessity that Moscow disassociate itself from both Medusa and the
Jackal. According to the consul general in New York, Bryce Ogilvie was