"Come on in, let's have it. You want a cup of coffee? Something stronger?"
"I never turn down a little taste," Schultz said.
"Scotch?"
"You wouldn't have a little cognac around here someplace, would you?"
"Bring cognac, please," Clete said. "There's a bottle on the table in the din-ing." He turned to Schultz.
"How'd we get this reply so quick?" he asked. "I thought you said you had an oh one thirty net call?"
"Oh one thirty, oh nine thirty, and seventeen thirty, three times a day," Schultz explained. "But we monitor the frequency all the time when someone's there. We just don't acknowledge, unless they ask for it special. Once a day, at oh nine thirty, if they've sent something, we acknowledge. Or, if we have some-thing for them-like your 0001-we acknowledge everything we got, starting with their oh one thirty. The idea is for us to go on the air as little as possible. You understand?"
"They monitor us all the time?"
"Sure. And when we send something off the schedule, I add a service mes-sage to any Navy station asking them to copy and relay. I did that with your 0001."
Clete opened the envelope Schultz had handed him and read the message.
TOP SECRET
LINDBERGH
URGENT
DUPLICATION FORBIDDEN
PROM ORACLE WASHDC
MSG NO 2545 DDWHO 0030 GREENWICH 12 APRIL 1943
TO STACHIEF AGGIE
REFERENCE YOUR NO. 0001
PROCEED WITH LINDBERGH INVESTIGATION AS HIGHEST PRIORITY.
LIAISON WITH VACUUM IN ANY ASPECT OF LINDBERGH IS FORBIDDEN REPEAT FORBIDDEN.
INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPED IS TO BE CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET LINDBERGH EYES ONLY DDWHO AND TRANSMITTED BY RADIO ONLY. FACILITIES OF USEMBASSY ARE NOT REPEAT NOT TO BE UTILIZED.
IDENTIFY SOURCE CAVALRY, INCLUDING MOTIVATION FOR HIS COOPERATION.
PERSONAL TO SARNOFF FROM ORACLE QUOTE GOOD JOB UNQUOTE.
ACKNOWLEDGE DELIVERY THIS MESSAGE TO STACHIEF BY TRANSMISSION OF PHRASE GOT IT. REPEAT GOT IT.
GRAHAM END
"I wonder why we're not supposed to use the Embassy's radio?" Clete asked. "Or the diplomatic pouch?"
"I guess Graham figures the FBI gets its nose in just about everything around the Embassy," Schultz said. "Tony... Mr. Pelosi... got to the Army crypto guy, I guess he told you. That place is a fucking sieve, security-wise."
Clete grunted.
"Do you write home, Chief?"
Schultz looked at him strangely for a moment.