Categories Intelligence And Counterintelligence News Review “Not every system is perfect, but this is the best”: CJI defends collegium system at India Today conclave – National Herald Post author By Mike Nova Post date March 18, 2023 Listen to this article “Not every system is perfect, but this is the best”: CJI defends collegium system at India Today conclave National Herald ← In this building at Arlington Towers (now River Palace West) at 1111 Arlington Blvd, Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, lived Ludek Zemenek, a Czechoslovakian national, who was a Soviet illegal, a spy living in alias under deep cover, virtually invisible to American authorities. Trained and outfitted with a false identity by the KGB, Zemenek became Canadian citizen Rudolph Albert Herrmann before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His profession as a freelance photographer and filmmaker in New York’s Westchester County suburb of Hartsdale provided a cover that gave him the workplace flexibility and mobility to support Soviet spy networks throughout the United States. At one point he buried containers of instructions for later pickup near Chicago. In another operation, he sent an anonymous letter to NASA warning of damage to an Apollo 8 rocket in an unsuccessful ploy to delay or scrub the 1968 launch that sent three astronauts in orbit around the moon. However, Herrmann’s greatest long-term investment for the KGB was likely his son, Peter. In appearance an all-American kid, Peter was brought into the spy game while still in his teens and accompanied his farther on operational trips. For the youngster, it was on-the-job training. The goal was for Peter to enter a prestigious college and become a US government employee. Peter began attending Georgetown University when they lived in River Palace West. When the FBI become aware of Rudolph’s true identity in 1977, he was confronted and agreed to cooperate. He than revealed names of Soviet operatives and reported on KGB tradecraft. Newspapers reported the family was given a new identity and relocated to an undisclosed location where Rudolph Herrmann / Ludek Zemenek made a living as a home builder and remodeler. By 1986, Rudolph Herrmann had enough of America and wanted to return to his home country. He packed up the family’s belongings and shipped eighteens pieces of luggage to Prague. However, Czechoslovakian officials, claiming the father’s true name was Valousek, denied the application for repatriation, stripped him of Czechoslovakia citizenship, and confiscated his bank accounts. The luggage was returned, except for Peter’s American comic book collection. (by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton/Spy Sites of Washington, DC 2017)Photos from The Art of Intelligence and Espionage’s post → @AllThingsNatSec @citynightcap The taco trucks are great. So are the new restaurants opening. NYC now has best Mexican food in the world. Giving the halal guys a run for their money. But no pitchforks.