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to his wife, which of course was his first priority.
The three officials met in the restaurant of the Hotel
Occidental on Pennsylvania Avenue.
"Gentlemen, we have a problem," said Gregory
Thom, OSS.
Briefly they briefed one another. John Dick, DDT
of CIA, opened with a review. Yes, apparently
Archangel was still on the computer payroll. Its chief of
staff, one Thomas Svatopluk, Ph.D., M.D., had been
placed in charge (despite everything the FBI had dug up
about him, including his hawking Communist
newspapers outside his elementary school) and
empowered to requisition supplies from private sources
entirely at his discretion from an annual budget of
$2,478,795.00, after, of course, the initial cost of his
laboratory.
Really, though, the whole thing was a farcically
minor bit of business, a Punch and Judy show.
Naturally, it might have slipped everyone's minds when
briefing the White House, though, naturally, key people
at OSS and at DIA had certainly been in the picture all
along, and there was no use denying they had (no use,