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What had they done, defected? Flown the damn<br />

helicopter to Moscow? Then G-2 hung up on him, or<br />

might as well have, the major general shouted at his<br />

wife. Sure, he added to himself, those two lucky stiffs<br />

were up to their necks in booze and hookers off in<br />

some hotshot hideaway right this minute.<br />

Working long after hours, G-2 called the office of<br />

the inspector general, who called the office of the<br />

adjutant general, who was out on the Potomac asleep in<br />

an industrialist's sloop and could not be disturbed.<br />

The next morning at a U.S. Intelligence Board<br />

meeting, a Colonel Harry of the DIA was called by an<br />

official of the OSS who wanted to know re code name<br />

Archangel, was there such a show on the road, and if<br />

so, where on the road was it? The colonel thought he<br />

could sketch that in for the official as soon as he<br />

checked with his staff. Ten minutes later, his staff<br />

lieutenant, a stern young woman who could not be<br />

persuaded to live for the moment, reported to Colonel<br />

Harry in his office at DIA headquarters. "Yes, sir. Code<br />

name Archangel. Immunodeficiency laboratory.<br />

Preliminary tests apparently were carried out but I can't

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