I saw Alexi Vasilyev’s defection as real enough. I even expected most of the intelligence he gave over to be valuable. I told Jimmy Mercer about Alexi’s habit of giving Russian assets to us by not changing all of their identity, like, for example, Christopher Metsos. Then, when Alexi Vasilyev wanted to show the man to us for some reason I’ve yet to discover, he oversees his new legend, leaving him exposed by changing his name to Christopher Signalman. I explained to him how it had been the same with Katherine.
I got another commendation from Jimmy Mercer about the unearthing of Pavel Kapustin, aka Christopher Signalman. My section at Vauxhall had passed on the information of his whereabouts to the FBI, who had, with the Canadian’s government’s permission, started a watching brief. They ha
