Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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KGB.Soviet intelligence agency, also known as the Committee for State Security National Security
Agency. U.S. intelligence agency that often works with NUMA. Based at Fort Meade, Maryland, the
NSA speciakes in cipher development and cracking as well as electronic eavesdropping and satellite
communications and detection. Operates under the Department of Defense.
National Security Council.Advisors to the president of the United States.
NUMA Headquarters.A thirty-story tubular structure sheeted in green reflective glass that sits on an
East Washington hill above the Potomac River. Admiral Sandecker's office is on the top floor and
features an immense desk made from the refinished hatch cover salvaged from a Confederate blockade
runner that was sunk in Albemarle Sound. On his desk is a humidor from which Giordino allegedly steals
cigars. The office is equipped with a holographic television camera so Sandecker can view the people he
is talking to in 3-D splendor. The twelfth floor is an immense equipment-laden area covering fifteen
thousand square feet manned by forty-five engineers and technicians who monitor the six NUMA
satellites circling the globe. The tenth floor has the glass-enclosed computer center run by Hiram Yaeger.
The fourth floor has the NUMA boardroom featuring a three-meter-long conference table built from a
section of a wooden hull salvaged from a schooner that sank to the bottom of Lake Erie, along with thick
turquoise carpeting and a fireplace with a Victorian mantelpiece. The walls are paneled in satiny teak, and
there are paintings of U.S. naval actions in ornate frames. The fourth floor also has Pitt's and Giordino's
offices. The lobby is an atrium surrounded by waterfalls and aquariums filled with exotic sea life. A huge
globe rises from the center of the sea-green marble floor, contoured with the geological furrows and
ridges of every sea, large lake and river on earth. The building has an underground parking garage.
Pitt's home.The address of Pitt's aircraft hangar/home is 266 Airport Place, Washington, D.C.
20001. The hangar is on a little-used runway at Washington International Airport and was built in 1936.
Formerly housing an air carrier that was absorbed by American Airlines, the building was scheduled for
demolition in 1980. Pitt bought the building, restored the inside, then had it placed on the National
Register of Historic Landmarks. From outside, the hangar appears deserted-weeds surround the
building, and the corrugated walls are weathered and devoid of paint. The appearance is merely a ruse.
The hangar has the latest in security measures, including an alarm system Pitt deactivates by the use of a
small transmitter carried in his pocket. Outside, remote cameras film guests arriving and alert Pitt to any
danger. The hangar floor is polished concrete and houses Pitt's transportation collection. Nearly fifty cars
cover the ten thousand square feet, including a Hispano-Suiza, a MercedesBenz 540 a Marmon town
car, a beautiful blue TalbotLago, a Cord L-29, a Pierce-Arrow town car with matchmg Travelodge
travel trailer, a stunning turquoise-green Stutz town car, along with a pair of RoUs-Royces, a big Daimler
convertible, a Bugatti, an Isotta-Fraschini, a Delahaye, an AC Cobra, a Maybach-Zeppelin town car, a
Renault Open-Drive Landaulette, a Jensen four door convertible, an Avions-Voisin, an Allard J2X and
the first car in Pitt's collection, a 1946 Ford Club Coupe. Pitt often drives his 1984 Jeep Grand
Wagoneer that features a 500-horsepower Rodeck engine taken from a wrecked dragster. Other
artifacts include a Ford Trimotor Tin Goose airplane, a Messerschmitt 262 Swallow, a Pullman Railroad
car The Manhattan Limited, an old cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor attached and a
weird-looking inflatable raft with sails and a carved Haida Indian totem pole. At the far end of the garage
is an ornate wrought-iron spiral staircase and a cargo elevator. The door at the top leads to a living
room-study filled with shelves stacked with books about the sea along with glass encased models of
ships Pitt discovered while working with NUMA. A trophy case holds football and fencing trophies.