tificate was then used to obtain further documents, such as a passport.
The illegal would be given the dead double’s documents, along with
other documents to create a legend for the new live double. When
William Fisherentered the United States as an illegal in 1949, he
carried the passport of Emil Robert Goldfus, who had died as a two-
year-old child five decades previously.
As it became more difficult to find dead doubles in the United
States and Great Britain, the KGBand the GRUbegan to document
many illegals as Germans who had been born outside the borders
of Germany and had to flee to Germany with the defeat of the Third
Reich. In Eastern Europe, archives and church records were in sham-
bles, and there were many dead doubles to be exploited. When
Rudolph Herrmannentered Canada in 1962, his wife was using the
identity of a German woman born in Czechoslovakia who had per-
ished in an Allied bombing raid in the last days of the war.
KGB Line N (Illegal Support) officers in rezidenturas had the duty
of collecting documents to create legends for illegals like Fisher.
They sought out agents with sources of legal, school, and military
records to buttress these legends. Especially prized were documents
from small towns where birth and death records were poorly kept,
and where school records were nonexistent. The live double/dead
double ploy is now used by terrorists and gangsters, as well as other
people trying to change their identities.LOCKHART PLOT. In the spring of 1918, the British intelligence ser-
vice dispatched Robert Bruce Lockhart and Sidney Reilly to
Moscow to stimulate resistance to the new Bolshevikregime. Nei-
ther Lockhart nor Reilly were professional intelligence officers, and
their actions were first monitored and then controlled by the Cheka.
Their contacts with other Western embassies caused the Cheka to be-
lieve it was facing an all-out offensive. The Cheka let the plot play
out to expose the role of foreign embassies and catch their Russian
accomplices. Thus, Lockhart and Reilly’s principal contacts were
Cheka agents to whom they willingly confided their ideas for a plot
that would include the arrest and executionof Vladimir Leninand
Leon Trotsky. Crucial to this plot was the corrupting of Eduard
Berzin, the commander of Lenin’s elite Latvian rifle detachment.
Berzin played the role to perfection, as did the other Cheka actors.LOCKHART PLOT• 14706-313 G-P.qxd 7/27/06 7:56 AM Page 147