1 Available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint2.pdf and http://www.justice.gov.opa/documents/62810complaint1.pdf
2 ‘Russian Spy Suspects Were Suburbia Personified’ by Manny Fernandez and Fernanda Santos, New York Times, 30 June 2010 www.nytimes.com/2010/6/30/nyregion/30couples.html
3 Interview with author, December 2010.
4 Mr Patricof, a prominent New York-based financier, was a donor to President Bill Clinton’s campaign and a friend of Mrs Clinton’s. He admitted that he knew Mrs Murphy but insists he never discussed anything of a political or sensitive nature with her. He is believed to be the person referred to in the Department of Justice initial complaint (section 85a, p35). Available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint2.pdf. Complaint 1 is available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint1.pdf
5 ‘Busted Russian Spy Wants Old Life Back’ by Richard Boudreaux, Wall St Journal, 7 August 2010 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413600124475346.html
6 See Complaint 1, section 40.
7 One might start by sparing a thought for the children involved, such as the Murphys’ daughters. For them, their parents’ foray into international espionage meant a painful and bewildering upheaval, ending in a return to Russia, a country they did not know with a language they did not speak. Children trust their parents above all and find even minor deceptions upsetting. The revelation of a double life will leave deep scars. Spouses can suffer quite badly too. A whiff of the hurt and distrust caused by the affair came in February 2011 with an interview given to Caretas, a Peruvian magazine, by Ms Peláez, who insisted that she had no idea that her husband of twenty years was not who he claimed to be. ‘Not even when we fought would I hear a word in Russian… not even in intonation. Such was his preparation.’ Ms Peláez, who was handcuffed and put in prison uniform before the initial court hearing, shows some sympathy with her husband’s cause, suffused with the grandiloquent rhetoric of Soviet-era solidarity with the Third World. She describes him as the ‘last Soviet hero’ and an ‘unseen warrior’, who told her: ‘I was brought up as a revolutionary, as an internationalist.’ In a column for Moscow News, where she began as a regular contributor in August 2011, she says he is ‘sad’ about how much life has changed in the thirty years since he left the Soviet Union. Her own son from a previous relationship and her younger son Juan (fathered by Vasenkov) have remained in New York. She said her husband ‘suffers for the lack of his son, to whom he dedicated his best hours and whom he now can’t see’. She said she does not want to stay in Russia, where she is receiving a $2,000 monthly pension, but wishes to return to either Peru or Brazil eventually. Some doubt about Ms Peláez’s eloquently expressed disappointment comes from the criminal complaint against her husband, in which FBI eavesdroppers say they overheard him talking to her about his family’s wartime experiences in the Soviet Union: ‘We moved to Siberia… as soon as the war started.’ It is conceivable, if unlikely, that she believed that he was a Uruguayan (perhaps of communist parents) who had spent the war years in the Soviet Union. Perhaps she knew he was spying but thought it was for another country, such as Cuba. The Peruvian authorities queried her marriage and birth certificates. See ‘Vicky Peláez to face corruption charges in Peru’ http://www.livinginperu.com/news/13009 and ‘La “Espía” que Volvió del Frío’ (‘The “Spy” who returned from the Cold’) http://nuestragente2010.wordpress.com/-vicky-pelaez-regresa-al-peru as well as ‘Mystery surrounds alleged spies’ children – With parents behind bars, kids’ lives likely in turmoil’ by Elizabeth Chuck and Ryan McCartney, msnbc.com, 30 June, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38021300/ns/us_news-security/
8 www.bostonredcarpet.com and the seemingly identical www.foleyann.com, accessed 7 September 2010 (now defunct).
9 http://www.futuremap.com/conversion-pages/strategic-leadership/future-challenges. The website gives no clue about the number of people working at Futuremap, and blurs the distinctions between the ‘institute’ and the ‘company’. Heathfield’s name appears only once on the entire site. Both futuremap.com and myfuturemap.com are written in Russified English, with a notable absence of definite and indefinite articles.
10 ‘Records show alleged Russian spy graduated from York’ Ylife 5 July 2010 http://www.yorku.ca/ylife/index.asp?Article=3260
11 Scenarios for Success: Turning Insights into Action (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). Heathfield’s chapter can be downloaded here http://www.futuremap.com/Portals/56527/docs/book%20chapter-%20don%20heathfield-fm%2070124.pdf
12 Interview with the author, February 2011.
13 Interview with the author, February 2011. For reasons of commercial confidentiality, this source wishes to remain anonymous.
14 http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=24934901. Another of the spies, Cindy Murphy, had a LinkedIn profile but has not updated it. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cindy-murphy-cfp%C2%AE/10/a27/6a6
15 Interview with the author, 1 March 2011.
16 Appendix B (p.61–63) includes a couple of screenshots of the software. http://www.forwardengagement.org/storage/forwardengagement/documents/fall_2006_final_report.pdf
17 The intern, then aged 20, was one of Leon Fuerth’s students. I have withheld his name at his request. His main job was to input data into the software, such as forecasts for China’s growth. He resigned when Heathfield declined to accept his suggestions for improving the software. Nobody from the FBI has contacted him, or Mr Glenn (who still has a copy of the software), or four of Heathfield’s other associates that I tracked down during research for this book.
18 Interview with the author, March 2011.
19 Heathfield, p. 19.
20 Email to the author 25 February 2011. Mr Fuerth adds: ‘Forward Engagement is in any event not a business, but a concept I have used for teaching and also for advocating a closer integration of foresight processes and public policy-making. All elements of Forward Engagement are to be found at www.forwardengagement.org.’
21 See paras 79a and 79c in http://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/62810complaint2.pdf
22 Interview with the author, 23 February 2011. For more details of Techcast, see www.techcast.com