Cauldron

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Corporal Tim Adams, U.S. Army — radiotelephone operator, Alpha Company, 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Alex Banich, aka Nikolai Ushenko — senior field operative at the CIA’s Moscow Station

Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Colby, U.S. Army — commanding officer, 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

First Sergeant Andy “Steady” Ford, U.S. Army — Alpha Company, 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

General Reid Galloway, U.S. Army — chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Mike Hennessy — CIA field operative assigned to Moscow Station

Joseph Ross Huntington III — advisor to the President

Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Irizarri, U.S. Army — liaison officer serving with the Polish 11th Mechanized Division

Colonel Gunnar Iverson, U.S. Army — commanding officer, 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Len Kutner — CIA chief of station, U.S. Embassy in Moscow

John Lucier — Secretary of Defense

Erin McKenna — analyst and investigator for the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Export Enforcement, assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow

Walter Quinn — director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Captain Michael Reynolds, U.S. Army — commanding officer, Alpha Company, 3/187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Clinton Scofield — Secretary of Energy

Major General Robert J. “Butch” Thompson, U.S. Army — commanding officer, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Harris Thurman — Secretary of State

Stuart Vance — intelligence officer assigned to the CIA’s Berlin Station

Vice Admiral Jack Ward, USN — commander, U.S. Second Fleet and later commander of U.S., British, and Norwegian Combined Naval Forces

Colonel Georg Bremer — commanding officer, 19th Panzergrenadier Brigade, 7th Panzer Division

Major Feist — one of the 7th Panzer Division’s staff officers

Major Max Lauer — commanding officer, 7th Panzer Division’s reconnaissance battalion

General Karl Leibnitz — commanding officer, 7th Panzer Division

Jurgen Lettow — Minister of Defense

Lieutenant Colonel Klaus von Olden — commanding officer, 192nd Panzergrenadier Battalion, 19th Panzergrenadier Brigade

Special Commissioner Werner Rehling — European Confederation liaison officer with the Hungarian National Police

Heinz Schraeder — Chancellor

Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm “Willi” von Seelow — operations officer, later commanding officer, 19th Panzergrenadier Brigade

Lieutenant Colonel Otto Yorck — commanding officer of the 191st Panzergrenadier Battalion, 19th Panzergrenadier Brigade

Nicolas Desaix — director, General Directorate of External Security, or DGSE, later Minister of Foreign Affairs

Major Paul Duroc — DGSE special operative

Général de Corps d’Armée Claude Fabvier — commanding officer, EurCon IV Corps

Admiral Henri Gibierge — chief of staff, French Navy

Michel Guichy — Minister of Defense

Général de Corps d’Armée Etienne Montagne — commanding officer, EurCon II Corps

Jacques Morin — deputy director, later director, DGSE

Michel Woerner — DGSE special operative

Brigadier General Imre Dozsa — commander, National Police

Colonel Zoltan Hradetsky — police commander, Sopron District, later assigned to headquarters in Budapest

Oskar Kiraly — aide to Vladimir Kusin

Vladimir Kusin — opposition leader

Bela Silvanus — head of administration, National Police Headquarters, Budapest

Major Marek Malanowski — commanding officer, 411th Mechanized Battalion, 4th Mechanized Division

Major General Jerzy Novachik — commanding officer, 5th Mechanized Division

Major Miroslaw Prazmo — commanding officer, remnants of the 314th Mechanized Battalion, 11th Mechanized Division

General Wieslaw Staron — Minister of Defense

First Lieutenant Tadeusz “Tad” Wojcik — American-born F-15 pilot, assigned to the 11th Fighter Regiment, at Wroclaw

Lieutenant General Ignacy Zdanski — chief of staff, Polish Army

Marshal Yuri Kaminov — chief of staff, Russian Army

Colonel Valentin Soloviev — senior aide to Marshal Kaminov

Pavel Sorokin — purchasing agent for the Ministry of Defense