Alfred Sarant / Philip Staros

Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, members of the Rosenberg spy ring who had passed over 9,000 pages on more than 100 US weapons systems, arrive in Leningrad as 'Iosif Berg' and 'Philip Staros'. Berg's own wife would not learn his real name for over twenty years of marriage.

After surviving the worst Stalinist years in Prague, where Sarant and Barr led 30 engineers building the Eastern bloc's first computer-controlled anti-aircraft prototype, the families move to Leningrad. Sarant is now 'Filipp Georgievich Staros', Carol is 'Anna'.

Barr and Sarant (as Berg and Staros) personally persuade Khrushchev to make Zelenograd the Soviet microelectronics city; Sarant becomes its scientific director. Their Uzel fire-control system, the first digital computer on a Soviet submarine, still serves on Kilo-class boats today.

Khrushchev personally visits Sarant and Barr's design bureau KB-2 in Leningrad. Delighted by a tiny radio called 'Era', he approves on the spot the construction of an entire city for microelectronics: Zelenograd. Staros must settle for vice-director but wields authority over institutes with 20,000 researchers.

Izvestia honors him as a 'tireless scientist and talented organizer', without mentioning that he was American. His ashes lie in Leningrad's Bolsheokhtinsky Cemetery; Vladivostok keeps a symbolic second grave.

Nearly forty years after her flight, Carol Dayton, 'Anna Petrovna Staros', mother of four Soviet-born children and one-time host of a Leningrad TV show called 'Do You Speak English?', presents an old California driver's license at the US embassy.