HANDS OF ELECTED COMMONWEALTH OF PHILIPPINES OFFICIALS.
LAWFUL GOVERNMENT OF PHILIPPINES IN AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY
OF USFI-P IS PRINTING AND PLACING INTO CIRCULATION MONEY.
USFIP IS BORROWING NECESSARY OPERATIONAL FUNDS FROM
COMMONWEALTH OP PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT.
USFIP URGENTLY REQUIRES MINIMUM ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN
GOLD.
USFIP URGENTLY REQUIRES FOR MORALE OF PHILIPPINE
POPULATION ANY SORT OF AID. MEDICINE FIREARMS AND
AMMUNITION PREFERABLE.
PERTIG BRIG GENERAL USA COMMANDING USFIP
Ellis frowned.
"What the hell is that all about?
"Vole asked.
"Fertig is being fucked by the system," Ellis said.
"But he's too mean to lie down and take it."
The telephone rang. Vole answered it, and then held his hand over the microphone.
"There's an Eyes Only Operational Immediate for either Donovan or Douglass," he said.
"They want to know if anybody's here that can take it."
"Decrypted?" Ellis asked.
"Yeah. Dispatched at 1207 London time."
"Would you run down there and get it?" Ellis asked.
Vole nodded, and took his hand away from the telephone microphone.
"Put it in a cover," he said.
"I'll be right down."
Vole was gone no more than five minutes. By the time he returned, Ellis had gone through the overnight messages and arranged those he felt Colonel Donovan should personally see in the order of their importance.
He took the two Eyes Onlys from Vole.
"I thought you said one Eyes Only," he said.
"They're related," Vole said.
He opened Dolan's message first, read it, and grunted. Then he opened the message Canidy had laboriously encrypted in the monks' cave on the Island of Vis.