Martha finds Dmitri so agreeable that she sees him again and again. She tells him all about the “swinish behavior” displayed by Ambassador Bullitt, a man she believes is unfit to be U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. She tells him all about her father, too, confiding details about a letter Ambassador Dodd wrote to the State Department in Washington, DC. She lets it be known that, as the daughter of a diplomat, she’s privy to numerous secrets of this sort. Dmitri knows this, of course. It is precisely why the NKVD has targeted her.
