Scores more opponents have vanished or died in disputed circumstances, but the disappearances of Mr Zakharenko, Mr Krasovsky and Mr Hanchar in particular had one glaring similarity which – thanks to the KGB's obsession with paper records – strongly suggested that senior elements within the state police were responsible.
Henry was held there over the winter, but in the spring of 1089 the senior elements of the Normandy nobility prevailed upon Robert to release him.
The human element and senior management support Technology alone is not the answer.
In 2013, for the first time, 150 senior managers had an element of pay linked to what the new boss Antony Jenkins calls the "five Cs".
"It's an incredible mystery full of human drama, with an international element," the senior CNN executive said.
Senior MDP officials accuse elements within the security forces loyal to Gayoom of engineering Nasheed's removal.
Fierce competition for the older-American market has inspired a search for new models and an emerging consensus about the elements the senior center of the 21st century should include.
But with written proposals from both sides now on the table, senior aides say the elements of a deal are coming into focus: Fresh tax revenue, generated in part by raising rates on the wealthy, as Obama wants, and in part by limiting their deductions, as Republicans prefer.
They own a vast amount of economy through bonyads [trusts], ownership schemes which we can't fathom, so it's very difficult to operate in Iran without hitting the Revolutionary Guards or somebody else who is sanctioned by the Americans, and you are extra-territorially sanctioned by the Americans if you do deals with IRGC-linked elements," the senior banker said.
Of course, there will always be a subjective element to senior-level talent decisions, just as investors will always reach different conclusions from the same balance sheets.
