>Natalia can, however, trace her particular line back to Tatiana
>Romanova, who achieved a certain level of infamy as a KGB operative on
>Earth during the 20th-century Cold War. In espionage circles she is
>best known for her rather spectacular defection to the West in 1964,
>which left a trail of bodies scattered all across Europe, left SMERSH
>crippled for nearly a decade, and earned her the original nickname
>"the Black Widow". The Neo-Soviet spymasters of the Red Room thought
>they could do a better job, loyalty-wise, with Tatiana's descendent.
>They appear to have been wrong. Perhaps the code name really is
>cursed - but then, a Bolshevik should know better than to expect
>loyalty to a Marxist-Stalinist state from a Romanov...
>
Interesting. Is this 20th-century Tatiana Romanova the same one who had a romantic encounter with one James Bond? (There's at least one website that does make that connection, but I don't know if it's so in the UFverse.)

-Joe-