Title: Russian Roulette

Shabtai Kalmanovich vanished from London in late 1980's। He resurfacedin Israel to face trial for espionage। He was convicted and spent yearsin an Israeli jail before being repatriated to Russia. He was describedby his captors as a mastermind, in charge of an African KGB station.
In the early 1970's he even served as advisor (on Russian immigration)to Israel's Iron Lady, Golda Meir. He then moved to do flourishingbusiness in Africa, in Botswana and then in Sierra Leone, where hiscompany, LIAT, owned the only bus operator in Freetown. He tradeddiamonds, globetrotted flamboyantly with an entourage of dozens ofAfrican chieftains and their mistresses, and fraternized with thecorrupt elite, President Momoh included. In 1986-7 he even collaboratedwith IPE, a London based outfit, rumored to have been owned by formermembers of the Mossad and other paragons of the Israeli defenseestablishment (including virtually all the Israelis implicated in theill-fated Iran-Contras affair).
Being a KGB officer was always a lucrative and liberating proposition.Access to Western goods, travel to exotic destinations, making new (andinfluential) friends, mastering foreign languages, and doing somebusiness on the side (often with one's official "enemies" andunsupervised slush funds) - were all standard perks even in the 1970'sand 1980's. Thus, when communism was replaced by criminal anarchy, KGBpersonnel (as well as mobsters) were the best suited to act asentrepreneurs in the new environment.