As the temporary field officer of record, I’ll...
As the temporary field officer of record, I’ll swear to
it before both intelligence committees of Congress, if need be
“And that we had nothing—absolutely nothing to do with the killings you mentioned,
specifically the assassination of the supreme commander of NATOIt was one of the major reasons for your cooperationYour government was
horrified by the assassination
Krupkin looked hard at Alex, his voice lower but stronger for itHe turned slowly, his eyes
briefly on the television screen, then back to Conklin“General Rodchenko?” he said“What shall
we do with General Rodchenko?”
“What you do with General Rodchenko is your business,” replied Alex quietly“Neither Bourne
nor I ever heard the name
“Da,” said Krupkin, nodding, again slowly“And what you do with the Jackal in Soviet territory
is your business, AlekseiHowever, be assured we shall cooperate to the fullest degree
“How do we begin?” asked Jason impatiently Dimitri looked over at the KGB commissar“Comrade, have you understood
what sacs hermes we’ve said?”
“Enough so, Krupkin,” replied the heavyset peasant-colonel, walking to a telephone on an inlaid
marble table against the wallHe picked up the phone and dialed; his call was answered
immediately“It is I,” said the commissar in Russian“The third man in tape seven with
Rodchenko and the priest, the one New York identified as the American named OgilvieAs of now
he is to be placed under our surveillance and he is not to leave Moscow The colonel suddenly
arched his thick brows, his face growing red“That order is countermanded! He is no longer the
responsibility of Diplomatic Relations, he is now the sole property of the KGBA reason? Use
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your skull, potato head! Tell them we are convinced he is an American double agent whom those
fools did not uncoverThen the usual garbage: harboring enemies of the state due to laxness, their
exalted positions once again protected by the Komitet—that sort of thingAlso, you might mention
that they should not omega constellation price look a gift horse in the mouthI don’t understand any more than you do,
comrade, but those butterflies over there in their tight-fitting suits probably will
The commissar hung up
“He did it,” said Conklin, turning to Bourne“Ogilvie stays in Moscow
“I don’t give a goddamn about Ogilvie!” exploded Jason, his voice intense, his jaw pulsating
“I’m here for Carlos!”
“The priest?” asked the colonel, walking away from the table
“That’s exactly who I meanWe put General Rodchenko on a very long rope that he cannot see or feelYou will
be at the other endHe will meet his Jackal priest again
“That’s all I ask,” said Jason Bourne
General Grigorie Rodchenko sat at a window table in the Lastochka restaurant by the Krymsky
Bridge on the Moskva RiverIt was his favorite place for a midnight dinner; the lights on the bridge
and on the slow-moving boats in the water were relaxing to the eye and therefore to the
metabolismHe needed the calming atmosphere, for during the past two days things had been chanel quilted replica so
unsettlingHad he been right or had he been wrong? Had his instincts been correct or far off the
mark? He could not know at the moment, but those same instincts had enabled him to survive the
mad Stalin as a youth, the blustering Khrushchev in middle age, and the inept Brezhnev a few years
laterNow there was yet a new Russia under Gorbachev, a new Soviet Union, in fact, and his old
age welcomed itPerhaps things would relax a bit and long-standing enmities fade into a once
hostile horizonStill, horizons did not really change; they were always horizons, distant, flat, fired
with color or darkness, but still distant, flat and unreachable
He was a survivor, Rodchenko understood that, and a survivor protected himself on as many
points of the compass as he could readHe also insinuated himself into as many degrees of that
compass as possibleTherefore, he had labored diligently to become a trusted mouth to the
chairman; he was an expert at gathering information for the Komitet; he was the initial conduit rolex watches for women to
the American enterprise known to him alone in Moscow as Medusa, through which extraordinary
shipments, had been made throughout Russia and the bloc nationsOn the other hand, he was also a
liaison to the monseigneur in Paris, Carlos the Jackal, whom he had either persuaded or bought off
from contracts that might point to the Soviet UnionHe had been the ultimate bureaucrat, working
behind the scenes on the international stage, seeking neither applause nor celebrity, merely
survivalThen why had he done what he did? Was it mere impetuousness born of weariness and
fear and the sense of a plague-on-both-your-houses? No, it was a logical extension of events,
consistent with the needs of his country and, above all, the absolute necessity that Moscow
disassociate itself from both Medusa and the Jackal
According to the consul general in New York, Bryce Ogilvie was finished in AmericaThe
consul’s suggestion was to find him asylum somewhere and, in exchange, gradually absorb his
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