Identity Conflict

"Identity Conflict"
Synopsis
Yuri Reasonov migrated to the US with his parents and his young sister at the age of seventeen, and two years later was recruited by the CIA. He passes a training course of two years at "the Farm", the CIA training base known also as Camp Peary in Virginia and graduates successfully as a CIA agent.
After a short leave with his family in New Jearsey he is briefed and sent for his first mission abroad. He flies to Tokyo Japan where he is guided by a Japanese operator to boards stealthily a Japanese whaler, and spends a week secluded in a small cabin in the whaler lowest deck.
The whaler sails close to the Russian eastern border, where Yuri is lowered in a small rubber boat to the sea; with his new identity cover story as Akim Tmirof, a Russian citizen born and bred in Mongolia and is on his way to return to his father land.
He has to land on the Russain shore, deflate his rubber boat, bury it and reach Vladivostok before sunrise, where he is supposed to live and gather intelligence, until he will be accosted by his contact man, and instructed how to pass on whatever intelligence that he managed to gather.
As an outcome of a navigation error he is lowered to sea at a wrong spot, and lands near Nakhodka a small Russian port east of Vladivostock.
He is caught by Russian agents in his hotel room in Nakhodka, and is suspected as a smuggler. He defects from his own free will, realizing that he was forsaken by his superiors; the reason is unknown to him, but he could guess that it was a power struggle at the top, which caused it and he was bound to fail from the very beginning.
He passes successfully a third degree interrogation, and is sent to Moscow to join the SVR, to be sent to the West as a Russian secret agent with a second cover story as Alex Garin a press attaché with the Russian embassys and consulates in the West.
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