The Company (Littell novel)

The plot includes numerous characters based on historical persons, with varying degrees of verisimilitude. The following is a list of the historical persons who speak or interact with other characters in the novel: • Martin Bormann (as Martin Dietrich) • Reinhard Gehlen • Yuri Andropov • Kim Philby • James Angleton • Lucian Truscott • William Colby • Richard Helms • James Reston • Dick Bissell • Llewellyn Thompson • Judith Campbell Exner • Allen Dulles • Dwight Eisenhower • Sam Giancana • Mikhail Gorbachev • E. Howard Hunt • Lyndon B. Johnson • John F. Kennedy • Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. • Robert F. Kennedy • Nikita Khrushchev • Manuel Piñeiro • Johnny Roselli • Mstislav Rostropovich • Pope John Paul I • Frank Sinatra • Fidel Castro • Harry Truman • Frank Wisner • James Baker • Ronald Reagan • Bill Clark • Boris Yeltsin • William Casey • Vladimir Kryuchkov In addition, William King Harvey does not appear by name, but the character "Harvey Torriti, a.k.a. the Sorcerer" is a very thinly-disguised version of Harvey. == References ==