Unbeknownst to most of the protagonists, the CIA has deployed a liaison, one Emilio Ortiz, to the region to aid the rebels. Strategic Defense Initiative-based at Dushanbe in Tajikistan. The American military discovers through "National Technical Means" that the Soviets were working on a ABM defense system-an equivalent to the U.S. As a result, Filitov began passing political, technical, and military intelligence for the CIA This operation continued for over thirty years until the start of the book. The two sons died as a result of service in the Red Army, the youngest in a training accident, and the eldest during the Hungarian Uprising. He was recruited by GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a British agent he offered his services to the CIA after his wife and two sons died. Filitov had won three Hero of the Soviet Union medals over the course of his career, most notably at the Battle of Stalingrad. It is revealed that the CIA’s most highly-placed agent, codenamed CARDINAL, is none other than one Colonel Mikhail Filitov: the personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and a national war hero. The book begins at a diplomatic conference in Moscow attended by Jack Ryan, a rising CIA analyst and part of the American delegation to the Soviet Union.
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