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investigating the plump public servant's private<br />

investments. Down in the ladies' room with her fully<br />

bugged handbag, the lovely T-woman was chagrined to<br />

find on playback that she had recorded sweet nothings<br />

indeed, a dialog of woofs and tweets. She decided the<br />

senator was onto them and that he had a scrambler.<br />

But as CIA, DIA, and DDT browsed over one<br />

scenario after another in search of the perfect play, Fate<br />

had already concluded the drama and dropped the<br />

curtain on Operation Archangel. Far from being at this<br />

minute off on their cans with the editor of Time, or even<br />

up to their necks in booze and hookers, Daniel Wolton<br />

and Bob Eagerly (along with the borrowed pilot) were<br />

over their heads in the deep water of Bredforet Pond.<br />

According to Eagerly's smashed Omega watch, they<br />

had been there since 1:33 A.M., Tuesday, June 1.<br />

There in the black, muddy stillness, tangled among<br />

algae and weeds, lay the carcass of a silt-covered<br />

helicopter, property of American taxpayers. Half out of<br />

its jagged hole floated dreamily in a Brooks Brothers<br />

suit Daniel Wolton, OSS, INR. His leg was hooked<br />

through a shaft of steel. Drifting against his Bond Street

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