THE DEREVKO FILE
AKA LAURA CAIN BRISTOW

Sydney unlocked her desk, pulled the drawer open and looked at the file folder. She had put it there four days earlier after reading the FBI’s first profile check on her mother who was then known as Laura Cain. She paused, and then shut the drawer.
Minutes later she was being admitted to the cellblock where Irina had been living the last two months. The buzzer went off notifying the prisoner someone was coming to see her. Her mother, the spy and accused murderer of twelve CIA agents, had been meditating, sitting cross-legged on her bed. She stepped to the floor and walked to the window as Sydney arrived.
“Sydney?” Irina waited.
“Mom, I wanted to ask you something?” She hesitated, trying to put her question into words. “How did you come to the states in ’72?”
Irina paused, looking at her daughter. “Why?”
“I wanted to know how it felt coming to this country for the first time. That was the other part to my question.”
Irina looked at her wondering what was behind this. Then decided to answer as she had promised to answer anything Sydney asked. “I came by submarine. I came ashore in Nova Scotia. There, an agent picked me up and drove me to Maine. He gave me a bag with some clothes, money and instructions on how to get to Virginia. Then I took a bus to a town in New Hampshire. I remember taking another bus to Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. From there, I took two more buses to Franklyn, Virginia, where I was to meet your father.”
“The United States was very familiar to me. I had been trained well. The KGB had invested a great deal of time and money to make sure I would not fail.” Irina felt her skin get cold as she remembered.
“So you never were in Farrisville, N. H.?”
Irina caught her breath. She had not heard that name for nearly thirty years. What was Sydney doing? “No! Sydney, where are you going with this?”
“I just wanted to fill in the blank spots.” She smiled. “No one ever told me. I knew you would. Thanks.”
She turned and left, leaving Irina staring after her. What blank spots was she talking about? What was she after?


Federal Bureau of Investigation
#53814
LAURA CAIN BRISTOW

October 24, 1981
File update requested by
Central Intelligence Agency (See memo request dated 04/22/82)
Reason: Suspected treason and murder
Subject: Laura Cain Bristow
DOB March 22, 1951
Age: 32
Height Six feet
Weight 135
SSI 555-89-1020
Married Yes
Date 10/30/72
Husband Johnathan Bristow aka Jack Bristow
Children Yes
Name Sydney A. Bristow
Born 04/17/75
Occupation Professor
Employer: U.C.L.A.
Place of Birth Unknown
Refer to File for information obtained on subject prior to marriage to Jack Bristow.

Purpose of Investigation: The Central Intelligence Agency has reason to suspect subject could be an agent of the KGB. We have been asked to conduct a more in depth profile on this subject. Agent Fred C. Wilson, our previous investigator, is on another assignment. The file has been turned over to Agent Tamara Crawford, FBI Headquarters, Washington, D. C.

January 23, 1982
SUMMARY
The following summary report is being written after investigation of the subject, Laura Cain Bristow.

I am recommending that Mrs. Bristow be brought in for further questioning by the Los Angeles office personnel. The following reasons make it imperative she be detained immediately after a warrant is obtained.

Shortly after I received this case file, I drove to Farrisville, New Hampshire, where the subject is supposed to have been raised. I found it no longer existed. There had been about 200 people in and about the town when Agent Wilson visited in 1972. Now there was no one. The town had literally disappeared. Streets had disappeared and houses torn down. In fact, the whole place had reverted to forest and meadows.
I turned around and drove to the nearest town, Leverton. I expected to find former Farrisville residents there, or at least some of them. I asked at the State Police office if they knew where I could find Sharon Jones, the Sheriff of Farrisville in 1972. The officer looked up his records and reported to me that there had never been a Sheriff by that name in Farrisville. When I showed him Agent Wilson’s report, he told me he’d been with the department for 15 years, and there was no one by the name of Sharon Jones who ever lived in Farrisville.
I then asked him where the school district building was located. Following his directions I went there, subconsciously knowing what I would find. Andy Henderson was never a Principal of the Farrisville School District. No one had ever heard of him. So, I immediately had the State Police search their files for anyone with that name. There were five men, but none met the criteria.
So thinking I would save some time, I asked them to conduct a routine computer- search on Frank Connerly. He was the service station attendant Agent Wilson interviewed. However, the search came back negative.
I asked the officer if he knew anyone who might have lived in Farrisville. He nodded and gave me two names, Bernie Perkins and Anna Standard, along with their addresses.
Both Perkins and Standard told me, to their knowledge, there had never been a Sheriff Sharon Jones or Andy Henderson living in Farrisville. The community was so small, everyone knew everyone else. I asked them about Frank Connerly, and Mr. Perkins told me that Frank closed the station one Saturday and just disappeared. I checked the date Agent Wilson interviewed him. It was closed the day after he saw Connerly. A check of the police files indicated he was not a fugitive. Mr. Perkins told me that Frank only ran the station for about a month.
Checking Agent Wilson’s report, I noted that Laura Cain’s parents, Peter and Maria Cain were supposedly buried in Farrisville. I asked what happened to the people buried in Farrisville’s cemetery. He referred me to the Leverton Mortuary who had records of the bodies that had been reburied in Leverton. The mortuary’s owner confirmed what I suspected. There had been no one buried in Farrisville by that name. Further investigation concluded that when Agent Wilson left, the headstones were removed and the ground returned to its previous condition.
I returned to the Bureau and immediately ran further checks on all three people. There were no matches. The same held true for Peter and Maria Cain.
Conclusion: These people were not who they said they were. I suspect they were KGB agents. They were there to give Agent Wilson the impression Laura Cain could be trusted and that it was all right for her to marry Jack Bristow.
Having reached this conclusion, I thought I needed more proof. Did our subject match any of the other criteria, namely was she out of the country during the time of the murders?
Laura Bristow’s profession, that of being a Professor of English Literature, meant she presented papers or participated in seminars or simply attended many conferences here in the U. S. and overseas. I went through the U.S. Customs database checking for departures and arrivals from late 1972 to October of 1981. (See attachment files)
She attended numerous conferences here, but the overseas dates are the most revealing. She was in Paris and Stockholm in 1974, London in 1977 and again in 1980. She went to Helsinki and Rome in 1978, to Hongkong and West Berlin in 1979. Her most recent trip was to West Berlin earlier this year. In 1973, she went to Mexico City. During each visit, checking the exact dates with those supplied by the CIA, one of their agents was assassinated. Although we have no physical proof she murdered them, it is most certainly a strong possibility.
To prove the subject was a spy for the KGB, the following operation was set up. With the CIA’s cooperation, information was given to Jack Bristow regarding the name of an intelligence operative who would be picking up documents from a dead drop in Montreal. CIA agents with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, conducted a 24/7 stakeout. If no one approached the area, then the information had not been communicated to his wife, Laura. If someone retrieved the packet, then we knew the suspect had obtained the Intel and forwarded it to her superiors for action.
Three days into the operation, a man (see picture and attachment) took the packet from its hiding place. One hour later, he returned it. This led us to believe it had been photographed and sent on to Moscow, or at least to his handler, for processing. It was obvious there had been a leak. It was either Jack Bristow or his wife, Laura.
I suggest a warrant be issued for her immediate arrest for questioning. Furthermore, I strongly suggest she be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
I would also advise the CIA to put Jack Bristow under surveillance or arrest until the proper check can be made to insure he did not participate in this action.

Signed:
Tamara Crawford, Washington D.C. Bureau
#70-7730

Sydney felt the hairs on the back of her neck quiver. Her body turned cold. There certainly was no physical proof of her mother’s involvement in the murders. That she could find out by reading the CIA files. They supposedly had proof but what was it? She remembered the KGB profile she had read earlier. Somehow, she didn’t think there could be any. Irina was a highly skilled agent and by nature was cautious and extremely thorough in all her activities. It was not like her to leave evidence behind if she pulled the trigger.
Of course, Sydney thought, if Irina had supplied the information when she stole Jack’s classified documents that would implicate her. Being an accessory, she would merit an equal charge of murder. Even the 86 counts of espionage were enough to give her mother the death penalty.
Sydney shut the file. She would give it back to Jack when she saw him again. She decided she wanted to see if there was any real proof that her mother had shot those men.
She glanced at her watch. She had to hurry. She was meeting Michael for dinner.

cool, i also noticed my name mentioned, interesting, what's even wierder is that i know someone named crawford and that i lived in d.c. for a while, kinda creepy but really good, is there more to this column?

There were two FBI files: Laura Cain - 1972 and Laura Cain Bristow, 1982
These two pieces were the ones where Sydney is reading her mother's case files.
Another piece is Derevko Files (KGB Training). Those three probably should be read before any of the columns which start with 1/02 Episode 1, Season 2
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