Higgins arrived back in Washington two days later. He didn"t even go home to his wife. Instead, the first thing he did was cable the Helsinki Station to say that in his opinion, Galerkin was an agent of penetration, designed by the Russians to try to infiltrate himself into the CIA"s defector program and spread disinformation. The man had fluffed several of the questions and made a crude attempt to extort money from a senior officer from Langley. Higgins" recommendation was that Galerkin be dropped as soon as possible and no further contact should be made with him by CIA Helsinki.
The next thing he did was to go down to the Registry and look up the few details they had on a Russian intelligence officer by the name of Vladimir Krivitsky. There was precious little. A few postings when he ha
