FROM MOSES
VIA VINT HILL TANGO NET
1505 GREENWICH 10 NOVEMBER 1945
TO VATICAN ATTN ALTARBOY
SHARE WITH GEHLEN ONLY
1-CONVOY UNDER PROTECTION BIS CARRYING ORLOVSKY ATTACKED BY SOME KIND OF ROCKETS AND MACHINE GUN FIRE SHORTLY AFTER DEPARTING JORGE FRADE FOR BUENOS AIRES.
2-THREE KNOWN DEAD INCLUDING ONE OF YOUR SERGEANTS AND SEVERAL OTHERS WOUNDED SOME SERIOUSLY.
3-TEX SENDS BEGIN QUOTE ALTARBOY THEY KNEW WHEN AND WHERE WE WOULD BE. WHOLE PLAN OBVIOUSLY KNOWN TO NKGB. ASK GEHLEN TO FIND OUT SOURCE OF BREACH AND DO NOT REPEAT DO NOT GET IN HIS WAY. END QUOTE
4-TEX PRESENTLY WITH WOUNDED IN ARGENTINE MILITARY HOSPITAL.
5-MORE TO FOLLOW.
MOSES
END
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—
“Who is Moses?” Dunwiddie asked.
“Sergeant Stein. Ashton’s Number Two. I guess he went to Buenos Aires after Ashton got himself run over. Rockets? What the hell?”
“And machine-gun fire.”
“Where’s the general?”
“Taking a walk. I sent a jeep after him.”
“What the hell is going on?”
“I don’t have a clue.”
—
General Gehlen and a second SIGABA printout arrived together about five minutes later. Cronley handed him the first message as he read the second:
PRIORITY
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DUPLICATION FORBIDDEN
FROM MOSES
VIA VINT HILL TANGO NET
1515 GREENWICH 10 NOVEMBER 1945
TO VATICAN ATTN ALTARBOY