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2100 Zulu, Tuesday, May 29, 1984, Agency Headquarters The Green Fox team gathers to hear reports from Jackson and David on their assignments from the previous morning. Jackson opens the meeting by telling David to report first. “Sarah Jacobs was very cooperative. She was worried she might be in trouble with us. When I assured her she was not in trouble but she could be of great help on an important issue she said she would do whatever we asked. I told her about our idea for a fishing story with her Israeli contact and she said she could do it. I asked if she had a phone number for her contact. She said yes but she hasn’t used it because calls to Israel are more than she can afford so she writes letters. I said it’s ok for her to call using her State Department phone so she agreed. It was near the end of the work day in Israel so we waited a bit until she felt Levi would be home and then called. Sarah gave the fishing story convincingly. I listened to his response and he seeme...

730 Zulu, Monday, July 28, 1981, US Embassy, Bonn Maria arrives at work committed to trying to bluff her way through the difficulty caused by Leon’s seeing her with Klaus in Dortmund after she told Leon she was through with Klaus. She had a dreadful train ride back from Dortmund thinking all her plans to be with Klaus were now destroyed. By the time she got to her apartment she decided to invent a story to explain why she was with Klaus. She went for long walks alone on Saturday and Sunday thinking of story after story. Maria couldn’t concentrate on developing a plausible story during her walks. She kept coming back to whether she was doing the right thing by committing to Klaus. Already it led to her lying to Leon, which made her uncomfortable. Klaus having secrets he wasn’t willing to share kept giving her doubts. She finally concluded her love for Klaus was the most important thing. She believed if she didn’t stay with Klaus she might never find another man who would make...

1830 Zulu, Monday, May 28, 1984, Agency Headquarters The Secretary of State didn’t call the Director until Thursday with the information on the State Department contact. Meetings kept the Director tied up all day so he didn't relay the name of the contact to Jackson until after 5:00 pm. Jackson caught David before he left for the day and asked him to meet with the contact on Friday morning. David called Friday morning but the contact was out sick so he wasn’t able to meet until Monday when she returned to work. After returning from the Monday meeting with the State Department contact David gathered Jackson and the Fox Trot team in the SCIF to report his findings. “Let me quickly summarize, the State Department contact designated for us is the source of the State Department story. Her name is Sarah Jacobs. She is a young staffer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. She got her information from a young man in Israel she met and dated briefly while w...

830 Zulu, Saturday, July 25, 1981, Mercure Hotel, Dortmund Maria received a phone call the previous evening asking for Marlene so she knows the meeting in Dortmund is on. She went to bed early but so excited about the planned meeting with Klaus she had difficulty sleeping. She gets up at 4:00 am and hurries to catch the early morning train to Dortmund. She arrives about 7:30 and walks to the Mercure Hotel. She enters the breakfast room and as soon as Klaus sees her she turns and leaves as though she has changed her mind. She pauses in the lobby searching in her purse so she won’t draw unwanted attention until Klaus appears and takes the elevator up. She watches as it stops at the third floor. She follows and, seeing no one in the hall other than Klaus, joins him as he walks to his room. As soon as the door of Klaus’s hotel room is closed they fall into each other’s arms, then quickly go to bed for an hour of loving sex. Then they get up, shower together, order room service brea...

1600 Zulu, Friday, May 18, 1984, Agency Headquarters Jackson Spruell asks David to join him in the SCIF and as soon as the door closes says, “Ok David, give me a summary of your plans and tell me what the Director can tell the NSC tomorrow.”   “We have a three-step plan Jackson, the first step, which is already underway, is to define the scope of the intelligence data we need to analyze to determine if the Soviets ordered the joint military exercises. Then we’ll estimate the time it is likely to take to analyze the data, develop a report and review the report with Agency management. The second step is to carry out the analysis and the last step is to prepare the report, review it and close out this task team’s work with whatever documentation is required.” “The Director is going to need more than that David. I expect he will have to give the NSC a definitive schedule of when we expect to complete a preliminary assessment and when we will have a final report. I under...

900 Zulu, Friday, July 17, 1981, Bonn By the end of the second week with Klaus Maria is certain Klaus is falling in love with her. More important she has to admit she is in love with Klaus. She knows she’s at a crossroad. She desperately wants to tell Klaus she loves him. For the first time in her life, she wants to be with someone forever. She finally understands why her parents are so happy with each other. She thinks how foolish I have been just seeking sex from men and not a relationship like I am developing with Klaus. She knows her family won’t accept her living with Klaus without being married. She just can't see how she can continue her current work for the Agency and marry him. Her successes at the Agency have all come from intimate relationships with the men she selected as possible targets. It is fun for her and the easiest way to learn the secret passions of targets that can be exploited. Until Klaus her relationships were temporary. She quickly became bored ...

1600 Zulu, Wednesday, May 16, 1984, Agency Headquarters As the Green Fox team gathers in the SCIF conference room for another of Jackson Spruell’s flaps Jackson waits impatiently, not with his usual quiet and reserved demeanor. As they wait Jason whispers to David. “How come you didn’t tell me about Mary Sue Lee?” “Actually I was supposed to. Nancy thinks she is a good match for you and asked me to introduce you but I hadn’t gotten around to it.” “Great David, but no matter. I met her at the hearing and we took the Metro to Roslyn together. She’s a stone fox, as you would say, and I love her southern accent. I’ve asked her to go jogging and for coffee afterward this weekend.” “Hope it leads to something for your sake. You have been single a long time. I tell you I have never been as happy as I have since I married Nancy. Oh, I think Jackson is ready to start the meeting.” Jackson rises from his chair and speaks in his usual unemotional manner, no longer seeming imp...

1700 Zulu, Monday, May 14 , 1984, US Capitol Building Agency Director William Allen, a ten-year veteran having served three Presidents, patiently answers the tough questions of Senator Morris, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Senator from Vermont dressed as always in a pinstriped Brooks Brother’s suit with a bow tie asks questions about the Agency's analysis of the Poland situation. The hearing ends after nearly three hours of questions that add little to the Top Secret Report Allen had submitted at the committee's request. Allen typically brings one or two junior members of the Agency to SIC hearings. He doesn't need their support, rather he wants them to gain firsthand experience of how hearing are conducted and he wants the committee members to get to know up and coming Agency people. He hopes this helps the committee see the Agency has trustworthy people and not mavericks to be held in check. He also knows Senator Morris wants his own s...