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Ryan, who is part of the American arms negotiation team, travels to Moscow for the arms reduction talks. In an effort to salvage the mission, CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who had now learned of CARDINAL's identity, concocts a plan to secure the return of Filitov and at the same time force the defection of KGB chairman Nikolay Gerasimov, who has been vying for the position of General Secretary since Filitov's arrest Ryan tries to prevent his ascension to power due to his anti-American ideology. The Foleys are then declared persona non grata, while Filitov is imprisoned and psychologically tortured until he eventually confesses to his crimes. However, when his wife Mary Pat, also a CIA agent, attempts to make a brush pass to Filitov, the two are arrested by the KGB. The CIA then tasks Foley with extracting CARDINAL out of the country. The courier chain having been quickly shut down by the CIA station chief in Moscow, Edward Foley, Filitov's more important intelligence on Bright Star is delayed however, he reveals the presence of a KGB agent infiltrating Bright Star's counterpart, Tea Clipper, which alarms the CIA. They later become suspicious of Filitov and place him under surveillance. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up in passing Filitov's intelligence alerts the KGB, which then aggressively pursues the couriers involved. His latest mission concerns a Soviet anti-ballistic missile research project codenamed "Bright Star", based at a secret defense installation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.Ĭolonel Filitov sends Gennady Bondarenko, a Soviet colonel skilled with lasers, to Dushanbe to evaluate the facility and unwittingly procure information that Misha will then send to his CIA contacts. This resulted in the transfer of Daniel Malloy to Rainbow.For thirty years, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich "Misha" Filitov, a personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and war hero, has been passing military, technical, and political intelligence to the CIA as their highest agent-in-place, codenamed CARDINAL. After ending the call, Foley contacted General Sam Wilson and asked for him to supply Rainbow with one helicopter and crew for the moment. Foley approved Clark's request and informed him that he would need to contact the Pentagon to secure funding. Foley then became Rainbow's point of contact to secure its American funding.įollowing the rescue of Erwin Ostermann and his staff during a hostage situation in Vienna, Austria, Clark contacted Foley to request helicopters and pilots for the unit. When Rainbow was pitched to President Jack Ryan, Foley, his wife, and selected others backed John Clark up, ultimately leading to the organizations approval. In 1999, Ed Foley served as the Director of the CIA. Afterwards they return to the United States together. The Foley's are later released and attend Filitov's funeral following his passing due to heart disease. However, when his wife attempts to make a brush pass to Filitov, the two are arrested by the KGB. The courier chain is quickly shut down by Edward Foley and Filitov's more important intelligence on Bright Star is delayed however, he reveals the presence of a KGB agent infiltrating Bright Star's counterpart, Tea Clipper, which alarms the CIA. During an operation, Colonel Filitov sends Gennady Bondarenko, a Soviet colonel skilled with lasers, to Dushanbe to evaluate the facility and unwittingly procure information that Filitov will then send to his CIA contacts. They acted as Colonel Mikhail Filitov's CIA contact. In 1986, Foley and his wife were still working undercover as embassy press in Moscow.
The Foley's agree to his terms and instruct him to bring his family to Budapest, Hungary under the guise of taking a vacation. Zaitzev agreed to provide information on the assassination plot in exchange for he and his family's safe extraction out of the Soviet Union. A communications agent named Oleg Zaitzev contacted the Foley's with the intention to defect after learning of a plot to kill the Pope.
Under the cover as embassy press, both of them covertly ran several Soviet national agents and aided in the defection of several high placed agents.
In 1982, Foley and his wife, Mary Pat Foley, were CIA case officers in Moscow.