In the frenzied weeks following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963, the C.I.A.’s counter-intelligence staff was thrown into the eye of the raging investigative storm. And Pete Bagley, a former fieldman who’d spent a derring-do career in the back alleys of Europe, was suddenly sent back into the field: a long-dormant K.G.B. asset had come alive.
The intel that the Russian, Yuri Nosenko, delivered over drinks in the Geneva safe house left Bagley astonished. Nosenko had been personally involved in the K.G.B.’s investigations of Lee Harvey Oswald, both before and after the Kennedy assassination.
