Death at Nuremberg (Clandestine Operations 4)

“How did you get the Stars and Stripes to run the story that an alert Constabulary PFC was responsible for catching those two?”

“I struck a deal with Janice Johansen of the Associated Press.”

“And she also . . . cooperated . . . in the story that Colonel Mattingly was in an East German jail for DUI?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Perhaps that’s why General Seidel thinks you’re a loose cannon. My experience has been that any association with the press is dangerous.”

“I’m aware of that, sir.”

“We were talking a while back about Mossad, Jim. How does Mossad feel about Operation Ost—or should I say, DCI?—shipping Nazis to Argentina?”

“I’m sure they don’t like it, but they’re patient. Their primary objective now is to get Zionists out of Russia and to Palestine. That requires money. We’re giving it to them, so for the moment, money talks.”

“The DCI is giving money to a Zionist intelligence organization? Does the President know about this?”

“I don’t know about the President, sir, but Admiral Souers does.”

“Fascinating.”

“Sir, getting back to Miss Johansen. She got us in the press billet in Farber Castle—”

“You mean you and your men, or just you and Miss Johansen?”

“All of us, sir.”

“That was very nice of her.”

“We’re friends.”

“Of course you are.”

“Obviously, sir, we can’t stay there indefinitely.”

“Or people would talk, right?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Aren’t people going to talk, be curious and then talk, about you and your men just because you’re here?”

Before Cronley could reply, his office door opened.

“Mr. Justice, I simply have to advise you that you have an appointment with Sir Geoffrey in fifteen minutes,” Ken Brewster announced.

“Ken, how many times have I told you the Brits call him ‘Sir Geoffrey’ and we Americans should call him Justice Lawrence? That’s his surname,” Jackson said.

“Sorry, sir.”

He turned to Cronley. “Sir Geoffrey Lawrence is the chief judge of the Tribunal, Jim. I call him ‘Justice Lawrence’ to remind him we Americans won the Revolutionary War.”

“Yes, sir,” Cronley said, chuckling.

“Mr. Cronley is about to leave, Ken. He will return at nine tomorrow morning. Please see that he and his people have no trouble getting in.” He turned to Cronley and added, “See you then, Jim.”

“Sir, I’d like to leave Ostrowski with you.”

“You must think that’s important.”