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“Thank you, Martha.”
The duty officer laid the messages on Cohen’s desk and she read them:
TOP SECRET
URGENT
DUPLICATION FORBIDDEN
TO: POTUS
SUBJECT: CGC
VIA SECRETARY OF STATE
MAKE AVAILABLE (EYES ONLY) TO:
DIRECTOR, CIA
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
C IN C CENTRAL COMMAND
SITREP #3
US EMBASSY BERLIN 1900 ZULU 15 JUNE 2007
1-FOLLOWING FLIGHT TO BUDAPEST, MR. D’ALESSANDRO, THE BRITTONS, AND DAMON WERE PUT IN CONTACT WITH PERSONNEL WHO WILL ARRANGE THEIR INFILTRATION INTO SOMALIA AND THEIR EXTRACTION THEREFROM.
2-REMAINING PERSONNEL OF OPERATION OUT OF THE BOX THEN FLEW TO HERSFELD, GERMANY, WHERE THEY WILL CONFER WITH CERTAIN JOURNALISTS KNOWN TO BE EXPERT REGARDING THE SOMALI PIRATE SITUATION.
3-MR. DANTON’S REDACTED NEWS STORY ATTACHED WILL PROVIDE OTHER DETAILS. AS OF THIS TIME LTC CASTILLO STATES HE CANNOT ESTIMATE DATE OF SOMALIA INSERTION WITH MORE PRECISION THAN “WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR TEN DAYS.”
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
NAYLOR, LTC
TOP SECRET
SLUG: OPERATION OUT OF THE BOX
TAKE TWO
BY ROSCOE J. DANTON
WASHINGTON TIMES-POST WRITERS SYNDICATE
DAY FIVE—JUNE 14, 2007
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
THIS REPORTER FLEW OVERNIGHT IN A CHARTERED GULFSTREAM V JET AIRCRAFT FROM COZUMEL, MEXICO, TO BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, WITH LIEUTENANT COLONEL ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ AND MEMBERS OF HIS TEAM, KNOWN AS “THE MERRY OUTLAWS,” CARRYING OUT PRESIDENT CLENDENNEN’S ORDERS TO INVESTIGATE THE SOMALIA PIRACY SITUATION AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM.
WE WERE MET AT FERIHEGY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT BY ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦, EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ NEWSPAPER AND ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦, CHIEF OF SECURITY OF THE NEWSPAPER, AND TAKEN TO THE HOTEL GELLERT ON THE BANKS OF THE DANUBE RIVER, WHERE, AFTER DINNER, CASTILLO CONFERRED ON SOMALIA GENERALLY WITH THESE MEN.
OBVIOUSLY, THIS REPORTER CANNOT DIVULGE THE DETAILS OF ANYTHING DISCUSSED AT THAT MEETING, EXCEPT TO SAY THAT ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ARRANGED FOR ¦¦¦¦¦¦ TO MEET WITH JOURNALISTS KNOWN TO BE EXPERT ON SOMALIA TOMORROW IN ¦¦¦¦¦¦, GERMANY.