To Neil and Monique
I would like to thank the following for their help in researching this book:
The Hon. William Webster, former Director of the CIA and the FBI
The Hon. Richard Thornburgh, former United States Attorney-General
The Hon. Samuel Berger, United States National Security Advisor
Patrick Sullivan, United States Secret Service, Washington Field Office
Special Agent J. Patrick Durkin, United States Diplomatic Secret Service
Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton
John Kent Cooke Jr, owner, Washington Redskins
Robert Petersen, Superintendent, United States Senate Press Gallery
Jerry Gallegos, Superintendent, House Press Gallery
King Davis, Chief of Police, Sierra Madre, California
Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director, Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace, St Petersburg
Dr Galina Andreeva, Keeper of the Department of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Painting, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Aleksandr Novoselov, Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of the Russian Federation, Washington DC
Andrei Titov
Three members of the St Petersburg Mafya who refused to allow their names to appear
Malcolm Van de Riet and Timothy Rohrbaug, Nicole Radner, Robert Van Hoek, Phil Hochberg, David Gries, Judy Lowe and Philip Verveer, Nancy Henrietta, Lewis K. Loss, Darrell Green, Joan Komlos, Natasha Maximova, John Wood and Chris Ellis.
And, in particular, Janet Brown, Commission on Presidential Debates; and Michael Brewer of the Brewer Consulting Group.