"I just had a rather interesting chat with the G-2," Donovan said.
"Really?"
"Someone has apparently told him we have a team in
Argentina headed by someone named Frade."
"I wonder who told him that? That's supposed to be Need
To Know."
"That's what I told him. He was pretty vague about that.
He said he was sorry, but I didn't have the Need To Know who told him that. He sort of hinted it came from the White
House."
"From the White House? That place leaks like a sieve, doesn't it?"
"I keep telling Roosevelt he should tighten things up,"
Donovan said. "But you know how he is."
"Yes, I do. Is there more?
"Oh, yes. It seems the G-2 sent a new assistant attache' for air to Buenos Aires. And this man not only got to meet
Frade-your friend Leibermann introduced them-but checked him out in that Lockheed we sent down there by mistake."
"Really? I'm not sure I'm glad to hear that."
"And then, the attache told the G-2, Frade repaid his cour tesy by threatening to kill him."
"Maybe the attache asked Frade the wrong question,"
Graham suggested.
"I have no way of knowing this, of course-and the G-2 said he had never heard the phrase 'Galahad'-but I think maybe the attache did ask Frade the wrong question."
"That does seem likely, doesn't it?"
"What do you think I should do, Alex?"
"I think I'd tell the G-2 he should tell his man to be care ful."
"I did. I told him that Frade's already killed six people we know about."
"I think the figure is four, but who's counting?" Graham asked. Then, more seriously: "Are you going to have trouble with your friend Franklin about this?"
"I don't see how he can complain to me that Frade threat ened this guy without admitting to me he sent him down there to ask a question he promised me he wouldn't ask."
"I don't know which of the two of you is the more devi ous," Graham said. "I say that as a compliment. Now get out of here and let me go back to work."
Donovan left, and Graham sat at his desk, the events of the last two months whirring through his head.
You dodged the bullet that time, Cletus, he thought. / hope it doesn 't make you cocky. Donovan's not the kind of man to give up easily. Next time, he may not bother to ask the question at all. Next time, maybe you 'II be the one on the other end of the pistol…
And whose hand would be holding it? A German? An
American? An Argentine?
He sighed and shook his head.
One more alligator, he thought. But when you are already up to your ass in alligators, what difference does one more make?
He turned back to his papers and started to read.
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Table of Contents
SECRET HONOR W.E.B. GRIFFIN Prologue
HEADQUARTERS
CLASSIFICATION: MOST URGENT
TRANSPORT AND STORE THE SPECIAL CARGO
AND THEIR DEDICATION TO THE PRINCI PLES OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND THE
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
II
CLASSIFICATION: MOST URGENT
ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE MADE
FAMILIAR WITH THE INCIDENT.
SECRET
0600 SURVEILLANCE TERMINATED
1623 ARENALES
IV
Schloss Wachtstein
17."
BACARDI AT FIRST OPPORTUNITY WILL
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VII
She poured herself a cup of coffee.
PRIORITY
VIII
THE SITUATION IS BEING EVALUATED AT
FREIHERR VON WACHTSTEIN AND
TERNICH. KORVETTENKAPITAN KARL BOLTITZ,
IX
GENERALMAJOR MANFRED VON DEITZBERG
THE FUHRER'S HEADQUARTERS 30
HIM AS AN OLDER BROTHER-TO EXPRESS
XI
"OK."
"OK."
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URGENT
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1943
Or was it Baron Hans-Peter von Wachtstein, the Graf-to- i
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ENGINE START."
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XVIII
CLASSIFICATION: MOST URGENT
BOTH LUTZEN AND DEITZ, WITHOUT PRIOR
CONSIDERS TO HAVE 'BEEN HIS BEST
WHO IS BELIEVED TO BE AN AGENT OF
OF OBERST GRUNER AND STANDARTEN FUHRER GOLTZ. IN THIS CONNECTION,
REGRETS THE UNFORTUNATE DEATH OF
THE UNDERSIGNED PARTCIPATED IN THE
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"OK."
LEFT ENGINE START."
Canaris
"OK."