Epstein Secrets

@ 5 Ihad written several books: My book Inquest examined the failure of the FBI, @ the Secret Service, and the CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy assassination. This interest continued in other books of mine, including Decep- tion, in which I investigated the vulnerability of intelligence servi

d the CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy assassination. This interest continued in other b

owden.” “Tf I were providing information”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity, interview with author. Mike Rogers, the chairman:

t Service and CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy Assassination. This interest continued on other o

e and CIA to establish the context of the John F. Kennedy Assassination. This interest continued on other o

have many notable cases...” For the cases of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A 16. “The greatest trick the...”—Author’s interview with Victor Cherkashin. The quote from Zhe Usual Suspects was adopted by the movie from Charles Baudelaire’s observation, “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous per

rk on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a film in which I had a cameo role. I had also debated Stone about the his- torical accuracy of his 1991 movie JFK at Town Hall in New York. When we dined, he had just written, produced, and directed Snowden, an independently financed film depicting Snowden, as S

ely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers in the Cold War. Cher- kashin, born in 1932, had served in the KGB’s espionage branch from

ork in Wall Street IT: Money Never Sleeps, a film in which I had a cameo role. I also had debated Stone about the historic accuracy of his 1990 movie JFK at Town Hall in New York. When we dined, he had just written, produced, written and directed “Snowden,” an independently-financed film depicting Sno

the CIA’s sophisticated lie detector tests. Both Hanssen and Ames eluded intensive FBI and CIA investigations that lasted over a decade. According to Victor Cherkashin, their KGB case officer, who I interviewed in Moscow in 2015, the KGB was able to hide their existence from investigators for such a long period part