In 2018, reporter Brett Forrest went to Russia to track down a missing American. An exclusive excerpt from Forrest’s new book ‘Lost Son’ reveals the FBI’s use and misuse of confidential sources and the danger of reporting in Russia on the brink of war.
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Andrei had driven four hours north of Rostov when he turned off the highway, steering the local road toward Veshenskaya, the home of Mikhail Sholokhov, the author ofThe potholes were so deep and numerous that our progress reduced to a crawl. The car’s radio lost its signal and pumped out static. The road bent distantly into uncultivated lands.
Nearby was the café. It was shrouded by a stand of trees, and wisps of gray smoke were curling from its chimney. A worn sign dangled in the breeze beneath an awning: Fireplace Snackhouse. Parked out front of the café was a white Volga sedan. The setting, remote and windblown, had the feel of America’s Western frontier, before the railroads, before the law.
In front of him, resting on the table, were three white ceramic plates. They were empty but for a shimmer of grease. He was chewing a final bit of food. Wiping his mouth with a sleeve, he invited me to sit on the bench across the table from him. I asked Bronya how he had met the American. “In Rostov at that time, there were a lot of people in fatigues,” he said. “He probably asked one of those guys where to go. I had a lot of foreigners at that time. French, Italian, Australian, American. Vasily just showed up. I never heard anything about him from [recruiter Mikhail] Polynkov. He came. And he left in a couple days. Then he came back.”
I knew that some of what Bronya said was true. But would he be truthful about the portions of the story that mattered? I asked what had become of Billy. “There were a few other foreigners with Vasily,” Bronya said. “I told them to leave their SIM cards behind, because the Ukrainians locate the pulse and send in rockets. The black corridor opened. I put them in the red van, the one [Russian intelligence officer Igor]I asked him where the van had gone once it had driven into Donbas. Bronya said that commanders had assigned the foreigners to fighting brigades.
With difficulty, he rose from the table and grabbed for the wooden cane. He relied on it as we proceeded to the exit of the courtyard, passing by the three men, who didn’t watch us go.
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