TOP SECRET LINDBERGH
DUPLICATION FORBIDDEN
FROM VATICAN
VIA VINT HILL TANGO NET
1635 GREENWICH 8 NOVEMBER 1945
TO SAILOR ATTN HANSEL
COPY TO TEX
1-URGENT REPEAT URGENT YOU ARRANGE DEPARTURE FROM RHINE-MAIN 1600 9 NOVEMBER.
2-BE PREPARED TO ACCEPT JESUIT AND MEDICAL TECHNICIANS WHO WILL BE ACCOMPANYING ILL AND PROBABLY UNCONSCIOUS PATIENT BEING SENT TO BUENOS AIRES FOR TREATMENT BY DOCTOR CLETUS.
3-ACKNOWLEDGE.
ALTARBOY
END
TOP SECRET LINDBERGH
[ NINE ]
Das Gasthaus
Kloster Grünau
Schollbrunn, Bavaria
American Zone of Occupation, Germany
1105 9 November 1945
Staff Sergeant Harold Lewis Jr. pulled open the door to the cell under the chapel and Staff Sergeant Petronius J. Clark, who was carrying a napkin-covered tray, entered ahead of him.
Both had brassards emblazoned with a red cross, identifying them as medics, around their right arms.
“Lunch, Konstantin,” Lewis said. “A hot roast beef sandwich and French fries.”
“Thank you very much, but I’m not really hungry.”
Cronley entered the cell.
“I’d eat, if I were you,” Cronley said. “It’s going to be some time before you’ll have the opportunity again.”
Orlovsky didn’t reply.
Father Welner entered the cell and leaned against the near wall.
“Bad news for you, I’m afraid, Orlovsky,” Cronley said. “The game’s over. By that I mean you can abandon hope that you’re going to be sprung from durance vile.”
“Am I supposed to know what that means?”
“You were winning. Now you’re losing. You’re good, very good. You even had General Gehlen going for a while. But it’s over.”