UNITED STATES
President Ronald Reagan
Vice President George H. W. Bush
General Alexander Haig: Secretary of State, 1981–1982
George Shultz, Secretary of State, 1982–1988
Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, 1981–1988
William Casey, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1981–1987
General Richard Ellis, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command, 1977–1981
General Bernard Rogers, Supreme Commander Allied Forces, Europe, 1979–1987
General Bennie Davis, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command, 1981–1985
General John “Jack” Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1982–1985
Judge William P. Clark, National Security Advisor, 1982–1983
Robert “Bud” McFarlane, National Security Advisor, 1983–1985
Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, 1981–1987
Jack Matlock, Senior Director for European and Soviet Affairs, National Security Council, 1983–1987
Admiral John Poindexter, Deputy National Security Advisor, 1983–1985
Oliver North, Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council, 1981–1986
Thomas Reed, Special Assistant to the President, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office and father of Project Pegasus, 1982–1987
Colonel William Odom, Military Assistant to the National Security Advisor, 1978–1981
Robert Gates, Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, 1981–1986
Fritz M. Ermarth, senior CIA analyst selected to write a Special National Intelligence Estimate (SNIE) on the Soviet war threat in 1984
David McManis, the CIA’s national intelligence officer for warning
Brigadier General Leonard Perroots, senior air force intelligence officer, US Army Europe, 1983–1984
THE SOVIETS (AND FRIENDS)
Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary, 1966–1982
Yuri Andropov, General Secretary, 1982–1984
Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary, 1984–1985
Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary, 1985–1991
Viktor Chebrikov, KGB Chairman
Vladimir Kryuchkov, KGB Deputy Chairman
Erich Mielke, director of the East German Intelligence Service (Stasi)
Markus Wolf, chief of foreign intelligence, Stasi
Horst Männchen, Stasi SIGINT chief
Nikolai Ogarkov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff
Dmitriy Ustinov, Minister of Defense (died 1984)
Andrei Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States
V. K. Bondarenko, captain of the Soviet Victory II attack submarine
Gennadi Osipovich, Soviet air defense fighter pilot
Stanislaw Petrov, deputy director for combat algorithms at the Russian Ground Command and Control Center
THE SPIES
Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer based at Soviet embassy in London (spied for the SIS)
Arkady Guk, the KGB rezident (chief officer) in London
John Scarlett, Oleg Gordievsky’s SIS case officer
Rainer Rupp, a senior NATO intelligence officer (spied for the Stasi)
Jeffrey Carney, a US Air Force intelligence officer who worked with the National Security Agency (spied for the Stasi)
Ryszard Kukliński, Colonel Polish People’s Army (spied for the CIA)
SOLDIERS, SAILORS, CITIZENS
Captain Lee Trolan, commander of the 501st Army Artillery Detachment
Captain Gary Donato, Assistant Weapons Officer, USS Kamehameha
Gail Nelson, senior intelligence analyst, US Army Europe
Al Buckles, senior noncommissioned officer, US Strategic Air Command
Steven Schwalbe, analyst of Soviet forces, Defense Intelligence Agency
Jim Vink, CIA officer detailed to DMSPA
Suzanne Massie, author and Soviet culture analyst