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I heard about this story from our intelligence veterans, and it appears to me to bethe weakest link in your chain of arguments. Tell me, what kind of agent would write thetelephone number of his handler from the special services in a notebook that he carriesaround in his pocket? If this were the case, then the words and numbers could have beenwritten in by graphology experts from PGU, who, as far as I know, participated in stormingthe Tajbeg. By the way, appreciating all of the awkwardness of that “action” and theimplausibility of the case, the intelligence veterans never cited the episode with thenotebook in their memoirs. Read the books by Bogdanov, Kirpichenko, and Shebarshin. Allof them are generals who were direct or indirect participants in those events. And they allchose to omit such a prominent detail. Why?Valery Samunin:I appreciate your irony. Intelligence agents really should not be recording suchthings in their notebooks. I agree. I always told this to my own agents. They wouldregularly agree with me, and right there in front of me would attempt to make some notes,even on a restaurant napkin, that they would put in their pockets, thinking that I would notnotice. They just couldn’t rely on their memory. It is possible that CIA operatives didn’t payenough attention to teaching Amin the rules of conspiracy.Vladimir Snegiryov:Well, I have another serious counterargument. It is known that the CIA neverabandons their agents, particularly the valuable ones who have penetrated high echelons ofpower. If such an agent were to die, then his closest relatives would usually be well taken725