The Hunters (Presidential Agent 3)
“And you’re going to tell me what?”
“I’m not going to tell you anything,” Kilgore said. “I thought that was understood between us. But a fleet-footed messenger—actually, he’s driving a Mini Cooper—is headed your way as we speak bearing some of the initial catch. Watch out for him.”
“This is a secure line…” Castillo began but stopped when he realized Kilgore had broken the connection.
Twenty-five minutes later, a red-and-black Mini Cooper pulled up in the curved driveway of the building. A trim young man in a gray suit got out and walked toward the door.
There was little question in Castillo’s mind that he was Kilgore’s “fleet footed messenger,” but he resisted the temptation to intercept him.
Let’s see what he does with the envelope.
The young man surprised Castillo by walking to him the minute he was inside the building.
“Mr. Castillo?” he asked, politely.
“How’d you know?”
“You were described to me, sir,” the young man said. “May I see some identification, please?”
The only thing Castillo had to show him were his Secret Service credentials.
The young man examined them carefully, said, “Thank you, sir,” and took a large white manila envelope from his jacket pocket and handed it to Castillo.
“This is for you, sir.”
Castillo saw that the young man was wearing a West Point ring.
“Thank you,” Castillo said. “Do you want me to sign for this?”
“That won’t be necessary, sir. Good morning, sir.”
The young man walked quickly out of the building, got in his little car, and drove off.
Castillo went to the elevator bank, ran his card through the reader, and rode up to his office. Only when he was in the conference room did he open the envelope.
It contained a sheaf of paper and an unmarked compact disc.
When he fed the CD to his laptop he saw that it contained a document in Microsoft Word format. He opened it.
He compared what came onto his monitor with the second page—the first page was blank—of the sheaf of papers. They appeared to be identical. He started to read what was on the screen:
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SYNOPSIS:
IT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY BECAME APPARENT THAT A NUMBER OF ENTITIES HAVE AN INTEREST IN CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE CALEDONIAN BANK & TRUST LIMITED. (SEE APPENDIX 3)
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SOME OF THE FILTER KEYS USED TO DEVELOP INFORMATION FOR THESE ENTITIES ARE IDENTICAL TO THOSE PROVIDED BY YOU. (SEE APPENDIX 4)
INFORMATION DEVELOPED FROM YOUR FILTERS MAY BE FOUND IN APPENDIX 1, AND INFORMATION WHICH YOU MAY FIND OF INTEREST MAY BE FOUND IN APPENDIX 2.
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Castillo picked up the sheaf of papers and found Appendix 3. Among the entities listed were the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service.