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They?we?sent back more functional intelligence than all the units sent out by Saigon put together ?My point, David, is that there can never be any connection between Medusa and the United States governmentOur involvement was never logged, much less acknowledged; the name itself was concealed as much as possibleThere?s no statute of limitations on war crimes, and Medusa was officially determined to be a private organization, a collection of violent misfits who wanted the corrupt Southeast Asia back the way they knew it and used itIf it was ever established that Washington was behind Medusa, the reputation of some very important people in the White House and the State Department would be ruinedThey?re global power brokers now, but twenty years ago they were hotheaded junior staffers in Command SaigonWe can live with questionable tactics in time of war, but not with being accomplices in the slaughter of noncombatants and the diversion of funds totaling millions, both unknowingly paid for by the taxpayersIt?s hermes tas like those still-sealed archives that detail how so many of our fat-cat financiers bankrolled the NazisSome things we never want out of their black holes, and Medusa?s one of them Webb again leaned back in the chair?now, however, taut, his eyes steady on his old friend, who was once briefly his deadly enemy?If what memory I have left serves me, Bourne was identified as having come out of Medusa ?It was an entirely believable explanation and a perfect cover,? agreed Conklin, returning David?s gaze?We went back to Tam Quan and ?discovered? that Bourne was a paranoid Tasmanian adventurer who disappeared in the jungles of North VietnamNowhere in that very creative dossier was there the slightest clue of a Washington connection ?But that?s all a lie, isn?t it, Alex? There was and is a Washington connection, and the Jackal knows it nowHe knew it when he found you and Mo Panov in Hong Kong?found your names in the ruins of that sterile house on Victoria Peak where Jason Bourne was supposedly blown away He confirmed it chanel logo earrings last night when his messengers approached you at the Smithsonian and?your words??our men were very obvious He knew finally that everything he?s believed for thirteen years is trueThe member of Medusa who was called Delta was Jason Bourne, and Jason Bourne was a creation of American intelligence?and he?s still aliveAlive and in hiding and protected by his government Conklin slammed his fist on the arm of his chair?How did he find us, find me? Everything, everything, was under a black drapeMcAllister and I made sure of it!? ?I can think of several ways, but that?s a question we can postpone, we haven?t time for it now We have to move now on what we know Carlos knows Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM 35 ?What? Move how?? ?If Bourne was plucked from Medusa, it has to follow that our covert operations were working with it?with themOtherwise, how could the Bourne switch be created? What the Jackal doesn?t know or hasn?t put together yet is how far this government?especially certain people in borse louis vuitton this government?will go to keep Medusa in its black holeAs you pointed out, some very important men in the White House and the State Department could get burned, a lot of nasty labels branded on the foreheads of global power brokers, I think you called them ?And suddenly we?ve got a few Waldheims of our own Conklin nodded, frowning and looking down, his thoughts obviously racing ?Nuy Dap Ranh,? said Webb, barely above a whisperAt the sound of the Oriental words, Alex?s eyes snapped back up at David?That?s the key, isn?t it?? continued Webb?Nuy Dap Ranh?Snake Lady ?Just this morning,? replied Jason Bourne, his eyes cold?When Marie and the kids were airborne, the plane disappeared into the mists over Boston harbor and suddenly I was thereIn another plane, in another time, the words crackling out of a radio through the static?Snake Lady, Snake Lady, abortSnake Lady, do you read me? Abort!? I responded by turning the damn thing off and looked around at the men in the cabin, which seemed ready to break apart in the turbulence I replica chanel jewelry studied each man, wondering, I guess, whether this one or that one would come out alive, whether I?d come out alive, and if we didn?t, how we would dieThen I saw two of the men rolling up their sleeves, comparing those small ugly tattoos on their forearms, those lousy little emblems that obsessed them?? ?Nuy Dap Ranh,? said Conklin flatly?A woman?s face with snakes for strands of hairYou refused to have one done on you?? ?I never considered it a mark of distinction,? interrupted Webb-Bourne, blinking?Somewhat the reverse, in fact ?Initially it was meant for identification, not a standard or a banner of any distinction one way or the otherAn intricate tattoo on the underside of the forearm, the design and the colors produced by only one artist in SaigonNo one else could duplicate it ?That old man made a lot of money during those years; he was special ?Every officer in Command Headquarters who was connected to Medusa had oneThey were like manic kids who?d found secret code rings in cereal boxes ?They weren?t kids, chanel earrings stud