James Lawler

From The Stasi Files

Please remember that this is a fictional account, based on works of fiction

James Lawler was an operative for the SIS who enjoys reading Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. Lawler was recruited to the Diplomatic Service in his final year at Cambridge, served two years at the Moscow embassy as Third Secretary where he could fluent Russian mad his transfer to SIS almost inevitable. His early years in the SIS were spent in Bazil, Washington, Cairo and the Caribeen and was before lastly moving to the European arena of operations, making him achieve the milestone of working for all five of the SIS's sections concerned with anti-KGB operations in Europe and the Americas.

Petrov

When KGB Colonel Anatoli Mikhailovich Petrov defected to Britain, his debriefing was going well, till Petrov started being uncooperative. Lawler was assigned to break down the issue and to get Petrov to re-continue his debriefing which he successfully did. During this assignment, Lawler organised the extraction of Petrov's ex-wife from East Berlin and uncovered the truth of George Blake and Dyer. Petrov was his last major case, before he took early retirement from SIS.

Personal Relationships

Lawler was involved with Joanna, a married lady without the formalised separation paperwork, who was an alcoholic and drug user, where he fathered an illegitimate child, Sarah. Under the law Lawler has no rights to see his daughter. Through the Petrov case, he met Petrov's girlfriend, Siobhan Nolan who he later married in March 1971. He now lives with his wife in the Irish Republic and and is part owner and the most active director of the most successful bookshop in the city of Cork.

Locations

51°32′55.6692″ N 9°15′49.3884″ W 51°29′36.3654″ N 0°9′0.5004″ W 51°29′24.003″ N 0°9′46.3104″ W 52°29′6.6186″ N 13°15′51.465″ E