Farewell by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Espionage, True Crime
ISBN: 9781611090260
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2011-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

A Not So Radiant Future

Vetrov had not disappeared. He was arrested ten minutes after he had left his home.

Contrary to what he thought, Ludmila Ochikina was not dead. In fact, Vetrov had not mowed Ludmila down with his car, as he told everyone who would listen including later the investigating magistrates. As Ludmila was running in the beam from the headlights, terrorized by the roaring noise of the car behind her, a truck was coming on the left. The two vehicles were on a collision path. In order to run Ludmila over, Vetrov would have crashed his Lada into the truck. So he suddenly turned right and exited like a madman onto the highway.

As soon as Ludmila felt out of danger, her strength failed her. She collapsed, her body hurting all over. Wherever she touched herself, she could feel blood. Ludmila crawled toward the path walked by bus passengers.

That’s where she was discovered by a woman passing by.1 Ludmila was able to give Vetrov’s name and his car plate number before losing consciousness. While Ludmila was taken away to the wail of ambulance sirens, the police radioed Vetrov’s car plate number to all traffic police centers (GAI). Although there was no GAI post between the Rogatins’ building, the MITKhT, and the Vetrovs’ apartment building, the police “sieve” was too fine to let him escape.

Vetrov drove to his garage. His car was probably spotted by the policeman perched in a glass cabin in front of number 26, where Brezhnev and Andropov lived. A “thoroughfare for government officials’ autocades,” Kutuzov Avenue was patrolled day and night. The closest police car was within one kilometer. Fittingly, the patrol stopped in front of the Borodino Museum, literally the central spot of this story. Complying with the warnings given by a policeman with a striped baton,2 Vetrov stopped the car. He knew the game was over.

They took him to the local police station. Police station #75 was halfway between the Borodino Museum and the Vetrovs’ apartment building, near the overhead bridge. Vetrov readily admitted to the double assault of Ludmila Ochikina and the passerby.

When a KGB member ended up in the hands of the police, for drunkenness or any other reason, the police were supposed to immediately inform Lubyanka. The phone call was received by the PGU officer on duty. He immediately notified Vetrov’s superior. More than any other KGB division, intelligence services did not want to wash their dirty laundry in public. A flying squad was immediately dispatched to the police station #75, but the policemen were inflexible and refused to remit Vetrov to the KGB.

It was not until three a.m. that a few detectives went to the Vetrovs’ apartment. Svetlana had not been able to sleep. She gave the detectives the clothes Vladimir was wearing at the time of the crime—his suit and his sheepskin coat, but not his shirt. Svetlana had noticed that in spite of her efforts to wash it thoroughly, it was still badly stained. The detectives asked her to come with them to the police station.

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