Joe's Books

 A switch from fiction. I have now published a non fiction book containing 30 letters of the famous Medici family from the 17th century. You can see how they maintained their power by arranging marriages and pressuring others. Their letters give an interesting insight to life in the 1600s.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GZDQ8GT/ref=sr_1_13?keywords=Joe+Jenney&qid=1632678561&s=books&sr=1-13 

I have published the complete novel and it's available on Amazon. See  https://www.amazon.com/Frankfurt-Sting-Jason-Speare-Novel/dp/1090434081/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=JOE+JENNEY&qid=1553716538&s=gateway&sr=8-4

2400 Zulu, Saturday, July 14, 1984, French Embassy, Washington D.C. As they walked toward the entrance to the French Embassy on a hot and muggy July evening Mary Sue says, “It’ll be good to get inside to the air conditioning. Ah’m so glad you agreed to come with me tonight Jason. Senator Morris wants me to attend these functions. It seems silly to me but he thinks Ah might spot foreign intelligence agents at embassy parties. Anyway, Ah have come alone to the Embassy’s Bastille Day celebration the last two years and Ah felt awkward.” “I am delighted to be with you tonight. I would be jealous if I learned you came without me. I hope I don’t embarrass you by appearing to analyze everyone. I am not good at cocktail party small talk.” “You won’t have to be tonight Jason. As soon as we get inside we’ll be led to Jean Rousseau, the Press Counselor. He is in charge of the Press and Communications Office of the Embassy. He always introduces me to interesting people. Just don’t mak...

2310 Zulu, Friday, July 1, 1983, The Montfort’s Apartment in Arlington “Maria, you’ll never guess who came to the Embassy today to see me.” “The Premier of France?” “No, but someone even more unlikely. It was Heinrich Klein, my old contact from Dresden. He has been transferred to the East German Embassy. He knew I would be in Washington and he knew Jean is in the network. So he came to the Embassy, asked for Jean and asked Jean if he knew a Frenchman named Claude. Jean brought him to me, not knowing Heinrich was my old contact and shouldn’t contact me anymore.” “If Heinrich shouldn't contact you why did he?” “ Well, it was obvious from our expressions when Jean got us together that we were old friends so he left us alone to talk. When he was sure we were alone Heinrich told me because of your successes in supplying the network with important intelligence word had spread there is finally a source in the American Government. Since he had arranged for my identity ...

1330 Zulu, Friday, July 6, 1984, The Director’s Private SCIF The Director opens the SCIF and beckons Jason and David to follow him inside. He opens the meeting with: “Please sit down this may take a while. First, thanks for coming promptly and without telling anyone. I have a special assignment for the two of you and it must be kept secret from everyone else except anyone I tell you to involve. It may take several months so do either of you have anything going preventing you from taking on this assignment exclusively for the next few months?” Jason and David look at each other and silently shake their heads indicating they can be available. Then David says: “We can do it, but it will put a load on Jackson. How do you want us to handle that Sir?” “I’ll handle Jackson. I don’t want either of you to speak to him about this other than to say I have given you a special assignment. I’ll tell him to reassign all your current work. Agreed?” “Yes Sir,” they both nod in the affir...

1400 Zulu, Saturday, November 7, 1981, Maria’s Apartment “Get up sleepy head. I have your favorite breakfast of pancakes and Maple syrup ready. We have lots to talk about. The holidays are coming up and I have some news.” “Ok Maria, just give me a minute to use the bathroom and get a robe on and I’ll be there.” When Claude is seated at the kitchen table Maria asks: “Are you ready for all the holidays? The American holiday Thanksgiving is at the end of the month and in December there’s Hanukkah and Christmas as you know. We need to decide what we’ll do for the holidays. Now that we are officially engaged, and I am going to have a ring to prove it, I want to tell my parents and I want to take you to meet them. Also, I am tired of us having two apartments. It’s been long enough that I don’t think to live together now will cause any problems for me at work. I want you to move in with me but only after I tell my mother we are engaged. I’m sure she will be ok with it. I just ...

1330 Zulu, Thursday, July 5, 1984, The Agency Director’s Office Jason is summoned to Director Allen’s office. He arrives, knocks on the door and is told to come in by Allen. “You sent for me Sir?” “Yes, Jason. I need to see the senator privately so I don’t want the call on my phone log. Would you contact Mary Sue Lee and set up a meeting? I’ll keep my schedule open so I can meet any time he can meet without calling any attention to our meeting. And please keep this between us for now. If things go as I expect I’ll have a new assignment for you and David but don’t say anything yet, particularly to Jackson.” “Yes Sir, I’ll talk to Mary Sue immediately. Sir, I’d like you to know Mary Sue and I are dating and it’s starting to get serious. I assure you our personal lives will not interfere with our jobs or compromise the back channel communication with the SIC.” “Ok Jason, that can strengthen the channel as it should increase trust as long as the relationship is going we...

2300 Zulu, Saturday, August 22, 1981, Maria’s Apartment in Arlington, Virginia Everything goes just like they planned. Maria selects an apartment in Arlington, although small and expensive, it has the virtue of her being able to come and go with little notice from neighbors. More importantly, Klaus can visit with little notice. Maria makes the call to the number Klaus gave her, asks for Karl Schultz and gives the address of the diner she selected for meeting Klaus at 9:00 am on a Saturday. She says the message is from Heidi, which means everything is going smoothly. Klaus, rather Claude now, arrives without incident on Friday morning and stays at the Key Bridge Marriott. They connect on Saturday morning at the diner as planned. They decide Claude should maintain a separate apartment until he settles in his new job and they can make plans to marry without causing suspicion from either of their employers. Claude will take an apartment in the District a short Metro ride from th...

1700 Zulu, Tuesday, June 26, 1984, The Agency Director’s Office “Ah, Jackson, thanks for coming so quickly. I just got a message from my contact at MI6 you and the Fox Trot team need to know. The Brits got a message earlier today from their agent in West Berlin. The agent says his informant got the planned order from the leather goods salesman. The salesman told him his trip to Poland is back on schedule. He said the Polish military officer told him the planned exercises were canceled . No reason was given .” “That’s a curious turn of events Sir. Do you want us to see if we can confirm this new intel via the young Israeli Levi Meissner?” “Yes, if you can do it quickly. I have to report to the NSC on Friday and I’d like to have more than just the MI6 story to report.” “Ok, I’ll convene the Fox Trot team and develop a plan.” “ Thanks, Jackson, and please keep me up to date on this.” “Will do Sir.” 1730 Zulu, Tuesday, June 26, 1984, CID SCIF Jackson begins ...

1200 Zulu, Saturday, August 8, 1981, Klaus’s Apartment, Dresden “Klaus, I succeeded in arranging everything you demanded, or I should say I convinced my network contact to have the arrangements made. We’ve waited so long for the chance to get a source of American intelligence on Europe the network agreed to do what you want.” “Wonderful Heinrich, I am relieved and happy. I can't thank you enough. Tell me, how is it all going to happen?” “I can only tell you the first step. Tomorrow you are to leave for the port in Sassnitz. Here are papers authorizing you to attend an engineering society meeting in Stockholm. You are to take a suitcase with clothes for a three-day trip and to board the ferry from Sassnitz to Trelleborg, Sweden. When you are on the ferry ask for Werner. Say he is an old friend. That is all I am allowed to know. I suspect you will be following a plan used before and the network wants to protect it. I am sure you are aware there are luxury goods from the W...

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...