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- 1 2 "Still Spying After All These Years", Time Magazine , June 29, 1992
- 1 2 Joyal's biography at National Strategies Inc.
- ↑ "Lawmakers put domestic spy agency on their agenda", Martin Kady II, Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor, October 15, 2002
- ↑ "Terrorism in Moscow", PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , October 24, 2002
- ↑ "Singling out Arab-Americans", Washington Post January 21st 1991 (cited via the Congressional Record)
- 1 2 "Expert on Soviet Intelligence Shot in Adelphi", The Washington Post , March 3, 2007
- ↑ 501 c3 filing of the E Shevardnadze Foundation for Democracy and Security http://www.taxexemptworld.com/organization.asp?tn=299688, taxexemptworld.com
- ↑ Text of Joyal's speech at Zhvania's memorial service Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Who killed Alexander Litvinenko?", Dateline NBC
- ↑ "Russian Intelligence Expert Shot", NBC4
- ↑ "Intelligence Specialist's Shooting Stirs Speculation", Washington Post, 4th March 2007
- ↑ Attack on Kremlin Critic in D.C. Suburb Still Unsolved One Year Later Archived 2008-02-20 at the Wayback Machine , By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor, Feb. 15, 2008
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