It was in 1968 that she made her reputation within the Agency and it came in the form of one Colonel Sergei Lvov. Lvov was an old school KGB thug who had been the bane of both CIA and SIS network operations in Berlin at one time. He was a tough, no-nonsense operator whom the Agency both feared and respected. To gain the knowledge that he had would be gold dust for them.
It was inevitable, then, that the Agency would make a 'pitch' to try to recruit him. What was more remarkable was that Lvov accepted; in fact, he damned near snatched the hand off the CIA officer leading the recruitment.
“What took you so long to ask?” he grumbled. “Of course I will work for America. It is my dream.”
The CIA man thought it was Lvov's greed and taste in Western prostitutes that motivated him, rather than
