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Joseph’s unfortunate bearded period, which lasted only a year or so. Standing in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square on a trip researching the mysterious Dr. Armand Hammer for the non-fiction expose RED CARPET.

Standing before Lenin’s tomb and the Kremlin in Red Square. On a research trip for THE MOSCOW CLUB.

A Soviet visa for one of Joseph’s many visits to Moscow. What’s interesting about this one is that the time before, the KGB said they’d never let him back in. But the name on this visa is transliterated in Russian as “Finn-der” while the earlier one was “Fain-der.” Thus, a new KGB file was started and Joe got in without them knowing he was the same guy. Bureaucracy – one of the many reasons why the Soviets lost the Cold War.

Joseph with a group of retired intelligence professionals and historians at the Diplomatic Hunting Club, an exclusive KGB Club, in Moscow. Top row, left to right: Joseph; retired FBI Special Agent William Duff; writer, intelligence expert and friend Thomas Powers. Bottom row, left to right: Col. Vladimir Barkovsky, NKVD case officer in London and resident in NY from 1949-1956; Dan Mulvenna, retired Canadian intelligence officer, who organized the Spy Tour.

With Retired KGB General Vasili Dozhdalev, former head of the KGB’s Directorate S (the Illegals Department, in charge of their undercover spies).

Joseph in Moscow examining the “dead drop” site used by the famous double agent Oleg Penkovsky (he was spying for us and was arrested by the KGB in October 1962).

In the KGB Museum, in the dread Lubyanka. Behind joseph, the KGB sword and shield,and the slogan “Chekists [KGB officers] – Soldiers of the Revolution.”