The Company

Washington, DC, 1975. Evgeny 'Gene' Tsipin visits his terminally-ill father and double agent Philby in Moskow. Soviet embassy 'political attaché' Sergei Kukushkin, a KGB captain, defects, claiming he has to seize the time window of the KGB Washington mole 'Sasha'. Mother believes his indications and starts ruthlessly interrogating as mole suspect Leo Kretsky, who keeps denying. Kukushkin is snatched back by the Soviets, who hold his family.

Even during Gorbachev's reform years, paranoid genius Angleton believes half the world leaders are part of KGB Cold War plots, but Jack gets Leo rehabilitated. Then new computer methods allow tracking Sasha's courier. Evgeny is caught, but released to track Leo in Russia, where his family has been sent trough abuse institutions for decades. Jack is in Moscow, supporting the Jeltsin coup and dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and to exact revenge- or is he?

Budapest, 1956. Jacko's mission is to convince the underground insurgent to wait at least 18 months before they rise against the Stalinist regime, in vain. Jack stands by their leader, poet Arpad Zelk, and his English-born wife, but the Hungarian secret police AVH sees trough his lies under torture. In Washington, president Eisenhower refuses flat-out to risk NATO blood.