When I took everything away from those morons in Documents, it was to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. I never dreamed they’d be used.
Thank God I didn’t have time to destroy them.
“Let me think about it,” Frade said.
“Certainly. Now, there’s two other things we have to talk about.”
“Okay.”
“There are three really significant secrets, Frade, that only very few people know about. By very few people, I mean Director Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and me.”
“Who’s Dulles?”
“The senior OSS man we have in Switzerland. Like me, a theater director.”
Frade nodded.
“One of them is actually two,” Graham said. “That’s Operation Phoenix and the ransoming of Jews from concentration camps.”
Frade nodded again.
“The second is that Dulles is in contact with Admiral Canaris, and that means with the plan to assassinate Hitler.”
Frade nodded again. “And the third?”
There was absolutely no reason that Frade should know of the Manhattan Project.
“You don’t have the Need to Know,” Graham said.
“Fine with me, as long as it’s not going to happen here.”
“I can assure you it’s not going to happen here,” Graham said.
“So why is this business about Canaris such an important secret?”
“You make me another drink, and I’ll tell you.”
“. . . So, essentially all I have to do is make sure that nobody talks about Canaris.”
“That and keep me posted up to the minute on anything, anything at all, that touches on Canaris,” Graham said. “That’s even more important, if possible, than keeping me up-to-date minute by minute about anything else you learn—no matter how unimportant it seems to you.”
“That’s not a problem. There are only two people who know about Boltitz and Canaris—”
“You and who else?” Graham demanded.
“Dorotea.”
“Why in hell did you tell your wife?”
“She was there when von Wachtstein and Boltitz told me. She knows everything. ” He paused, then added: “About everything. The radar, Operation Phoenix, what happened on the beach. Everything.”
“I don’t like that.”
Frade didn’t reply, which Graham correctly interpreted to mean that Frade didn’t much care if he liked it or not.
“And, presumably, you intend to tell her about this conversation?”
“I’d rather have her trusting me to tell her everything than have her suspect I’m keeping something from her and then having her snooping around where she shouldn’t be trying to figure out what that is.”