In the presence of a KGB “press officer,” Katya answered my questions—or didn’t. She said the contest had taken place “in private” and even the number of contestants was a secret. That there obviously had never been any contest at all was, I supposed, a given and did not bear mentioning. But Katya, for someone trained in “kill methods” and marksmanship by the most feared organization in the world, was charming.
