Marina KHATIASHVILI
Born Tbilisi, Georgia, March 10,1953; Education: Tbilisi State University (Diploma Engineering, Chemistry) 1979; Intellectual Property and Innovation Institute, Moscow 1989; Languages: Georgian, Russian, German; Practice area: Intellectual Property, Chemistry
Former Weapons Inspector In Iraq Difficult To Pigeonhole
By GEORGE EDMONSON / Cox Washington Bureau
09-10-02
Ritter also divorced and later married Marina Khatiashvili, who had been a translator and escort when he was in the USSR, according to Washingtonian.
The couple and their twin daughters have been living in Delmar, near Albany, for a couple of years.
"He mentioned to me that he came here because he had a friend in the area," said David Grand, who lives near Ritter in the decades-old suburb.
Grand has also played an occasional round of golf with Ritter at Colonie Country Club in nearby Vorhesville where both men are members. "He's a competitive golfer," said Grand, who recently witnessed Ritter score a hole-in-one during a tournament at Colonie.
The two have never discussed politics or Iraq, Grand added.
That topic never comes up at the fire station either, said William Wright, chairman of the board of fire commissioners. Ritter joined in October and said it was his first experience fighting fires, Wright added.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:3i7xn_X7FwwC:www.coxnews.com/washingtonbureau/staff/edmonson/091002RITTER10.html+Marina+Khatiashvili&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Married to second Mrs. Ritter in 1991. Their twin daughters could not be more than 10 or 11 years old. How in Heaven's name could he DO what he's been caught doing? And how many times has he done it and not gotten caught? What about his treatment of his own daughters? At the least, one wonders.
Thanks. So Marina Ritter was 35 in '88, older than I suspected. Does seem a bit odd to describe her as a "young girl." I wonder if that birth date might be wrong.
Very odd that a Russian in the old Soviet Union -- especially one who may have worked for the KGB -- should specialize in intellectual property, even to the extent of going to an institute specializing in the subject. Could, I suppose, be a cover for KGB training in some classified subject.
Nearly all of the translators during the Soviet era were spies, no question about that. Thus, Marina might well have been trained as a spy.
Did Ritter leave his wife for her? If he did, then the probability (purely statistical) that he also is a spy is relatively high, according to a British study.
IMHO Ritter might well be blackmailed by the Russians. His wife Marina very likely was an agent. And the relationshiop follows a pattern which should have raised red flags. Funny, but Oslwald's wife was also named Marina.