THE CARLOS ORGANISATION
Johannes Weinrich Carlos's right-hand man, Paris and East Berlin
Ali Al Issawe Syrian intelligence officer, also a key Carlos accomplice
Magdalena Kopp Carlos's first wife
Hans-Joachim Klein Member of West German Revolutionary Cells
Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann Member of West German Revolutionary Cells
Nydia Tobon Colombian lawyer, and Carlos's lover, London
Fouad Awad Alias Antonio Dagues-Bouvier, Lebanese former army officer
Bruno Bréguet Swiss militant
Christa-Margot Froelich West German teacher, former member of the Red Army Faction
THE PALESTINIANS
Dr George Habash Founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (referred to as the Popular Front)
Dr Wadi Haddad Chief of foreign operations, Popular Front
Bassam Abu-Sharif Chief recruiting officer, Popular Front
Mohamed Boudia Chief European representative, Popular Front
Michel Moukharbal Boudia's successor
THE FRENCH
Count Alexandre de Marenches Chief, Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, the foreign intelligence service)
Pierre Marion De Marenches's successor at the SDECE, which he renamed the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE)
Yves Bonnet Chief, Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST, the counter-intelligence service)
General Philippe Rondot Arabist, associated with the SDECE and then the DST
Commissaire Jean Herranz Chief, B-2 Middle East division, DST
Commissaire Pierre Ottavioli Chief, Brigade Criminelle (police criminal investigation unit)
Gaston Defferre Interior Minister
Charles Pasqua One of Defferre's successors as Interior Minister
Jean-Louis Bruguiere Chief investigating magistrate, antiterrorism section, Paris
Jacques Verges Carlos's lawyer
THE AMERICANS
Duane R. Clarridge Deputy chief, Near East Division for Arab Operations, CIA, then Head of Counter-Terrorist Centre, CIA
John Siddel Head of Paris station, CIA
Mark Palmer Deputy Assistant Secretary Responsible for Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, State Department
THE EAST GERMANS
General Erich Mielke Minister of State Security, or the Stasi secret police
General Markus Wolf Chief, Stasi foreign intelligence
Colonel Harry Dahl Chief, counter-terrorism, Stasi
Lieutenant-Colonel Helmut Voigt Chief, international counter- terrorism division, Stasi
THE HUNGARIANS
General Miklos Redei Chief, counter-intelligence, State Security
Colonel Andreas Petresevics Chief, counter-terrorism unit
Hafez al-Assad President
Rifaat al-Assad Hafez's brother, Chief of the Defence Brigades
General Mohamed Al-Khuli Chief, air force intelligence
THE SUDANESE
Sheik Hassan al-Turabi Speaker of Parliament