year later we moved
to the States. Actually, I have practically no memories of Leningrad,
very few of my family. However, I am not very fond of the Soviets."

"No," Ana said softly.

Shvernik said, "And what was your father's name?"

"Theodore Koslov."

Shvernik said, "I studied French literature under him."

Ana stiffened in her chair, and her eyes went wide. "Koslov," she said.
"You must be Paul Koslov."

Paul poured himself another small vodka. "In my field it is a handicap
to have a reputation. I didn't know it had extended to the man in the
street on this side of the Iron Curtain."

* * * * *

It was by no means the last trip that Paul Koslov was to make to his
underground contacts, nor the last visit to the dacha at Petrodvorets.

In fact, the dacha became the meeting center of the Russian underground
with their liaison agent from the West. Through it funneled the problems
involved in the logistics of the thing. Spotted through the rest of the
vast stretches of the country, Paul had his local agents, American,
British, French, West German. But this was the center.

[Illustration]

The Mikoyan Camera made a great success in the States. And little
wonder. Unknown to the Soviets, the advertising campaign that sold it
cost several times the income from the sales. All they saw were the
continued orders, the repeated visits of Mr. John Smith to Leningrad on
buying trips. Leonid Shvernik was even given a promotion on the strength
of his so ably cracking the American market. Ana Furtseva was
automatically assigned to Paul as interpreter-guide whenever he appeared
in the Soviet Union's second capital.

In fact, when he made his "tourist" jaunts to the Black Sea region, to
the Urals, to Turkestan, to Siberia, he was able to have her assigned to
the whole trip with him. It gave a tremendous advantage in his work with
the other branches of the underground.

Questions, unthought of originally when Paul Koslov had been sent into
the U.S.S.R., arose as the movement progressed.

On his third visit to the dacha he said to Shvernik and three others of
the organization's leaders who had gathered for the conference, "Look,
my immediate superior wants me to find out who is to be your top man,
the chief of state of the new regime when Number One and the present
hierarchy have been overthrown."

Leonid Shvernik looked at him blankly. By this stage, he, as well as
Ana, had become more to