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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I would like to thank the following for their help in researching this book:

  The Hon. William Webster, former Director of the CIA and the FBI

  The Hon. Richard Thornburgh, former United States Attorney-General

  The Hon. Samuel Berger, United States National Security Advisor

  Patrick Sullivan, United States Secret Service, Washington Field Office

  Special Agent J. Patrick Durkin, United States Diplomatic Secret Service

  Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton

  John Kent Cooke Jr, owner, Washington Redskins

  Robert Petersen, Superintendent, United States Senate Press Gallery

  Jerry Gallegos, Superintendent, House Press Gallery

  King Davis, Chief of Police, Sierra Madre, California

  Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director, Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace, St Petersburg

  Dr Galina Andreeva, Keeper of the Department of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Painting, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

  Aleksandr Novoselov, Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of the Russian Federation, Washington DC

  Andrei Titov

  Three members of the St Petersburg Mafya who refused to allow their names to appear

  Malcolm Van de Riet and Timothy Rohrbaug, Nicole Radner, Robert Van Hoek, Phil Hochberg, David Gries, Judy Lowe and Philip Verveer, Nancy Henrietta, Lewis K. Loss, Darrell Green, Joan Komlos, Natasha Maximova, John Wood and Chris Ellis.

  And, in particular, Janet Brown, Commission on Presidential Debates; and Michael Brewer of the Brewer Consulting Group.

  First published in the UK 1998 by HarperCollinsPublishers

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