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Officials took the children to her mother's apartment and brought her to Moscow's Lefortovo prison for interrogation. The KGB questioned her repeatedly. During the next two years, as KGB counterintelligence officers investigated the case, she was allowed to see her husband only four times. The last time she brought her son with her, knowing Martynov had been sentenced to death. He was executed by a firing squad on May 28, 1987. He was 41 years old.
Vladimir Potashov: To know what it was like to be betrayed by Ames, one has only to listen to Potashov recount his ghastly experiences. A young disarmament specialist who fed information to the CIA while working in Moscow for the prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, he was arrested on July 1, 1986.
After being interrogated about a hundred times at Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly in the Gulag. "I was in Perm five years and seven months. The doctor told me I had bones like a 65-year-old man. I lost all my teeth from bad or radioactive water in the camp. I was beaten with iron rods by KGB agents; my bones were broken."
In 1992 Boris Yeltsin, the new Russian President, granted Potashov amnesty. His young wife had been frightened by his arrest, and prison had cost him his marriage. With the help of the CIA, Potashov came to America and remarried. He now lives in the Southern part of the U.S.
Boris Yuzhin: A KGB officer working under cover as a San Francisco correspondent of the Soviet news agency TASS, Yuzhin began providing valuable information to American intelligence in 1978. He revealed the existence of the KGB's Group North, an alite unit of senior Soviet intelligence officers who specialized in recruiting American and Canadian targets worldwide.
In 1982 Yuzhin went back to Moscow, and in 1986, after Ames identified him as a CIA source, the KGB took him into custody. He was sentenced to 15 years for high treason. On Feb. 7, 1992, after six years under harsh conditions in the Gulag, he was another of the 10 political prisoners released from Perm-35 under Yeltsin's amnesty. Gray-haired at 53, he now lives in northern California with his wife Nadia and daughter Olga.