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to tell him that something was wrong.
- "I have made up my mind" - said a researcher, young
woman with her face turned to stone - "I have nothing to
feed my kids with. I have made up my mind."
Everybody in the lab knew the story of this single
mother. One old and loathsome "New Russian" had been
propositioning her for a long time, offering lots of money.
Alexei came up to her desk, bent to her and said in a
low voice: "I can't explain to you everything now, I have no
right to, but I want you to know that this nightmare" - he
made a sweeping gesture - "will soon be over. I implore you
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to refrain from making any rash decisions. You are talented,
you must continue your research. You've got to stick it out
for one more month. Take this for now." - he took the
crumpled one hundred dollar bill from his pocket - "I don't
have the right to tell you anything, but trust me, very
soon, maybe even sooner than one month, something must
happen ... something tremendous, something wonderful,
something that is going to change everything ..."
2.3 Arrest The same day, July 6, 1997, 6 PM, Moscow.
They came up to him in the street when he was walking
back from work, two from behind, one in front, all of them
in civilian clothes. The one in front promptly produced a
red KGB ID card, momentarily showed it to Levshov, and
rattled off: "Alexei Petrovich Levshov, I presume? You'll
have to come with us in this car.". Sooner than Alexei could
reply, he found himself sitting on the back seat of a black
"Volga" car, caught between the two men in civilian clothes
who had come up from behind. The one who showed his ID took
the right front seat and the car sped off.
- "Here we are! It has started!" - thought Alexei - "So
they have finally found my 'autograph'. Now the things will
start moving!"
2.4 Interrogation. The same day, half an hour later.
At first the Colonel was very polite and smiling.
- "Alexei Petrovich!" - said he, addressing Levshov with
patronymic, which is the polite form of address in Russia -
"I think I don't need to explain to you the reason why we
have invited you here. But just in case you might presume to
deny everything, I would like to show you this picture right
away."
The Colonel passed to Levshov a picture where one could
distinctly see the inscription: "Made in the USSR by Alexei
Levshov and a team of his comrades".
- "A good picture." - said Alexei - "A good microscope.
We never had one like this. And I guess you still don't have
one like this. I would say it were Americans who took the
picture."
The Colonel didn't respond.
- "So, it were Americans. " - said Alexei - "That means
that my babies are already over there, in America. That's
good. And the inscription did come off well. You know, it's
the first time that I actually see it. I did issue the
command to make the inscription, but I wasn't completely
sure that the characters will come out well, or that the
command will actually reach as far as America. That means
that the system is fully operational. That's good. You,
Colonel, can't even imagine how pleased I am with this
photograph."
- "So, you are not going to deny anything, are you?" -
Colonel's voice betrayed his slight disappointment - "In
that case, I have only two questions: why did you do it, and
who are the members of this 'team of comrades' ?"
- "I'm not going to give you any names. The team of
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comrades, who prefer to remain anonymous, have authorized me
to conduct negotiations with the authorities. This picture,"
- Alexei put the picture to the Colonel's very nose - "this
picture is my business card. It means that there is a power
behind me, a great power, maybe even greater than you could
possibly imagine. And that's why it's me who is going to
make demands, and you better meet them."
- "Alexei Petrovich, I'm afraid that you are not fully
aware of your current situation. Let me first read to you
some excerpts from our file on you. Now then, Levshov,
Alexei Petrovich, born 1946; in 1969 graduated with honors
from the prestigious PhysTech Institute, Moscow, and went
to work at a secret unnamed research institute, known only
as the post office box number such-and-such; in 1976 became
the head of the nanotechnology lab that was founded at the
time at that research institute.. But all this is not very
interesting ... Here we are. This is sort of curious: in
spring 1983 you wrote a letter to Yurii Andropov, soon after
he had become the Secretary General of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union. Our man on the General Secretary's
staff managed to make a copy of this letter. A very curious
letter, and it reads as follows:
"Dear Yurii Vladimirovich,
I took the liberty to address you because I would like to
draw your attention to a very important issue, so important
that the fate of the whole of mankind may eventually hinge
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