There wasn't much that Tartakoff could offer Devereaux by way of
paying for his passage to the West. There were a lot of risks in bringing
over KGB defectors and the Russian was nothing special. Then he said
he could get Thomas Crohan out as well. Devereaux passed the name
onto Washington. The silence was deafening. Privately, the CIA was throwing
a fit.
Thomas Crohan has officially been dead for forty years, and the big boys
from Intelligence on both sides of the Atlantic (and behind the Iron Curtain) are
determined that he will stay that way. Even if it means wiping out anyone who
could prove otherwise.
And that, of course, includes Devereaux...