Analysis of Katya and Barley's conversation

Yakov Yefremovich Savelyev	Location: The Russia House, London CIA Headquarters, Langley Virginia, USA Barley’s Hotel room, Hotel Ukraine, Moscow, Katya’s apartment, Moscow
Details: MIS and CIxA discuss the implications of Dante’s identity: Yakov Yefremovich Savelyev, gifted mathematician, physicist and top scientist in the Soviet military industrial complex.  “Savelyev?! –He’s the right hand of god over there  . . . and he says its shit! The Soviet Threat is one big lie?”   Barley talks to Katya on the telephone from his hotel room – announcing his imminent departure to Leningrad on the night train, to meet his “new American partner” for a pow wow.  Katya instructs him to sit on his luggage, as the Russian custom dictates one must do before a long journey, sigh a little  and make the sign of the cross (In the Orthodox manner – not   Roman Catholic*)
Notes: *RC order is spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch – Forehead, chest, left shoulder, right shoulder; Russian Orthodox: right shoulder first, then left