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@@@@@Fortunately, it?s still early in the day It was 3:25 in the afternoon when Charles Casset walked into Peter Holland?s office at the Central Intelligence Agency?Breakthrough,? said the deputy director, then added less enthusiastically, ?Of sorts ?The Ogilvie firm?? asked the DCI ?From left field,? replied Casset, nodding and placing several stock photographs on Holland?s desk?These were faxed down from Kennedy Airport an hour agoBelieve me, it?s been a heavy sixty minutes since then ?From Kennedy?? Frowning, Peter studied the facsimiled duplicatesThey comprised a sequence of photographs showing a crowd of people passing through metal detectors in one of the airport?s international terminalsThe head of a single man was circled in red in each photo?What is it? Who is it?? ?They?re passengers heading for the Aeroflot lounge, Moscow bound, Soviet carrier, of course Security routinely photographs Unationals taking those flights ?So? Who is he?? ?Ogilvie himself ?What?? ?He?s on the two o?clock nonstop to MoscowOnly he?s not supposed to be ?Come again?? ?Three separate calls to his office came up with the same informationHe was out of the country, in London, at the Dorchester, which we know he isn?tHowever, the Dorchester desk confirmed that he was booked but hadn?t arrived, so they were taking messages ?I don?t understand, Charlie ?It?s a smoke screen and pretty hastily contrivedIn the first place, why would someone as rich as Ogilvie settle for Aeroflot when he could be on the Concorde to Paris and Air France to Moscow? Also, why would his office volunteer that he was either in or on his way to London when he was heading for Moscow?? ?The Aeroflot flight?s obvious,? said Holland?It?s the state airline and he?s under Soviet protectionThe London-Dorchester bit isn?t too hard, eitherIt?s to throw people off?my God, to throw us off!? Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 347 ?Right on, maste