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The shocking true story of international intrigue involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow.
On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agencys station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspecta vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgias swift work, and both countries breathed a sigh of relief.
Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didnt do it, who did? Those who dont buy the official explanation think the answer lies in the spy games that played out on Russias frontier following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Woodruff was an early actor in a dangerous drama. American spies were moving into newborn nations previously dominated by Soviet intelligence. Russias security apparatus, resentful and demoralized, was in turmoil, its nominal loyalty to a pro-Western course set by President Boris Yeltsin, shredded by hardline spooks and generals who viewed the Americans as a menace.
At the time when Woodruff was stationed there, Georgia was a den of intrigue. It had a big Russian military base and was awash with former and not-so-former Soviet agents. Shortly before Woodruff was shot, veteran CIA officer Aldrich Ameswho would soon be unmasked as a KGB molevisited him on agency business. In short order, Woodruff would be dead and Ames, in prison for life. Buckle up, becauseThe Spy Who Was Left Behindreveals the full-throttle, little-known thrilling tale.

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Jacket photographs: Street Scene by Tim Robinson/Arcangel Images; Man by Mark Owen/Arcangel Images

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-1-5011-5213-9

ISBN 978-1-5011-5215-3 (ebook)

This book is dedicated to my father, Captain Angelo Pullara, USAF.

He died so that someone else could live.

A NOTE ON GEORGIAN NAMES

At first glance it might seem like almost everybody in Georgia is related because their names sound so similarall those -dzes and -shvilis. However, these suffixes are merely the Georgian equivalent of the Western -son (as in Ericson, which originally meant Erics son).

The suffix -dze is Old Georgian for son and the suffix -shvili is Old Georgian for child. Whether someone is a -dze or -shvili depends on which side of the country his or her family comes from: the -dze (like Eduard Shevardnadze) are from western Georgia and the -shvili (like Mikheil Saakashvili) are from eastern Georgia.

When a Georgian name is rendered into Latin script, it is written phonetically. You pronounce each letter and place the accent or stress on the suffix. For names ending with -dze, the e is stressed (e.g., sheh-vard-nad-ZEH); and for names ending with -shvili, the first i is stressed (e.g., sah-kash-VEE-lee).

KEY PLAYERS

THE PEOPLE IN THE NIVA


Eldar Gogoladze

Elena Darchiashvili

Marina Kapanadze

Freddie Woodruff

THE YOUNG MEN ARRESTED BY GOGOLADZE


Anzor Sharmaidze

Genadi Berbitchashvili

Gela Bedoidze

THE GEORGIAN GOVERNING COUNCIL


Jaba Ioseliani

Tengiz Kitovani

Tengiz Sigua

Eduard Shevardnadze

GEORGIAN INVESTIGATORS AND FORENSIC EXPERTS


Irakli Batiashvili

Shota Kviraya

Avtandil Ioseliani

Otar Djaparidze

Zaza Altunashvili

Levan Chachuria

GEORGIAN POLITICAL FIGURES


President Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Temur Alasania

President Mikheil Saakashvili

Giga Bokeria

Zurab Zhvania

Daniel Kunin

U.S. POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC FIGURES


President Bill Clinton

President George W. Bush

Ambassador Strobe Talbott

Vice President Dick Cheney

Ambassador Richard Miles

Secretary of State James Baker

Ambassador John Tefft

Vice Consul Lynn Whitlock

Ambassador Kent Brown

FBI SPECIAL AGENTS


George Shukin

Dell Spry

Robert Hanssen

Dave Beisner

CIA OFFICERS


Director William Casey

Director James Woolsey

Edward Lee Howard

Aldrich Hazen Ames

Bob Baer

Milt Bearden

Dayna Baer

G. L. Lamborn

THE WOODRUFF FAMILY


George Woodruff

Dorothy Woodruff

Chery Woodruff

Jill Woodruff-Pully

Georgia Woodruff Alexander

Meredith Woodruff

THE JUDGE AND LAWYERS AT THE TRIAL


Chief Judge Djemal Leonidze

Prosecutor K. Chanturia

Tamaz Inashvili

Avtandil Sakvarelidze

MEMBERS OF THE PROSECUTOR GENERALS OFFICE


Irakli Okruashvili

Zurab Adeishvili

Zaza Sanshiashvili

SELECTED JOURNALISTS


Thomas Goltz

Andrew Higgins

Peter Klein

Eliso Chapidze

Jamie Doran

Natasha Gevorkian

Adam Ciralsky

Magda Memanishvili

Sopiko Chkhaidze

Inga Alavidze

WITNESSES ON THE OLD MILITARY ROAD


Badri Chkutiasvili

Ramin Khubulia

Giorgi Tserekashvili

Tamaz Tserekashvili

Lali Tserekashvili

Eteri Vardiashvili

Merab Gelashvili

Vasiko

RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS


Victor Cherkashin

Stanislav Lekarev

Alexander Litvinenko

Igor

SELECTED MEMBERS OF GROUP ALPHA


Igor Giorgadze

Kote Shavishvili

Vladimir Rachman

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