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@@@@@Your little infiltrating operations and our little infiltrating operations can go on and on and
it doesn?t matter because none of it means a goddamned thing in the long runIt?s all adolescent
game playingWe either live together on this planet or there is no planetMy only concern is
CarlosI want him dead so I can go on living
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?Of course, I personally agree with much of what you say, although the adolescent games do
keep some of us rather gracefully employedHowever, there?s no way I could convince my more
rigid superiors, starting with the one standing above me
?All right,? said Conklin from his table, his eyes still on the ceiling?Down and dirty?we deal
You get him into Novgorod and you keep Ogilvie
?We?ve already got him, Aleksei
?Not clean, you haven?tWashington knows he?s here
?So??
?So I can say you lost him and they?ll believe meThey?ll take my word for it that he flew out of
your nest and you?re mad as hell, but you can?t get him backHe?s operating from points unknown
or unreachable, but obviously under the sovereign protection of a United Nations countryAs a
matter of conjecture, I suspect that?s how you got him over here in the first place
?You?re cryptic, my fine old enemyTo what purpose should I entertain your suggestion??
?No World Court embarrassments, no charges of harboring an American accused of
international crimesYou win the stakes in EuropeYou take over the Medusa operation with no
complications?in the person of one Dimitri Krupkin, a proven sophisticate from the cosmopolitan
world of ParisWho better to guide the enterprise? The newest hero of the Soviet, a member of
the inner economic council of the PresidiumForget the lousy house in Geneva, Kruppie, how
about a mansion on the Black Sea??
?It is a most intelligent and attractive offer, I grant you,? said Krupkin?I know two or three
men on the Central Committee whom I can reach in a matter of minutes-everything confidential, of
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