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.So it would seem to me that Jimmy isthe man to go.But it's your call.The Dyer mission, and the followons, have the higherpriority.If you think you really need him." It was a long moment before Canidy replied."The unpleasant truth seems to be," he said finally, "is that Jimmy falls intothe Nice to Have' rather than Have to Have' category.""The Philippines mission is important, Dick," Donovan said."It will screw up his love life, but what the hell, war is supposed to be hellanyway, isn't it?""It would be a volunteer mission.You think he'll be willing?" Donovan said.Canidy nodded."And now, as they say," Donovan said, "to the business at hand.I understandthat contact has been made with Helmut von Heurten-Mitnitz?"Three days ago," Canidy said."By whom?" Donovan pursued."What was said?""The British have been helping us," Canidy said."We don't have anyone inBerlin that we can use for this.Their help has been a little reluctant."Page 200ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"That figures," Donovan said."Their story is that their men are involved in something' rather moreimportant, don't you know, "' Canidy said in a credible upper-class Britishaccent."They have told us that we are going to have to make our ownarrangements and stop using their agents in both Berlin and Frankfurt.Specifically, they are going to give us one more contact.Probably, if we lean on them, we can make that two contacts.But after no morethan two contacts with von Heurten-Mitnitz, we're on our own." Donovan nodded."There's something else, Dick," he said, "that until now you didn't have toknow, and which the British aren't going to be told about at this time.Wehave, we think, a pipeline in place.From Budapest out, I mean.""Do I get to use it?" Canidy asked."I've been going on the idea that we'llget Dyer and his daughter out by fishing boat from Holland.And why the long way around?""The Germans know that we, as well as the British, are bringing people outthrough Holland and Belgium.And they're getting better and better at findingthose pipelines.We'll continue to use them, of course.And we'll set upothers when they turn one off.But what we've done is set one up which willmove people the other way, from Germany to Hungary, then through Yugoslavia.It won't be used much, just enough to keep it open.And it will be used onlyfor those we must bring out.Do you follow the reasoning?" Canidy nodded."It's in reserve, so to speak." "No," Donovan said."Not the way I think you mean.It will not be used when one of the Dutch orBelgian routes is shut down.It will be used only when the people being runthrough are too valuable to run through the others.""Dyer is that important to us?""Dyer can tell us about the metallurgy for the jet engines," Donovan said.Do I have to tell you, of all people--you burr-under-the-Air-Corps-saddleblanket--how important that is to us? " It wasn't much of a joke, buteverybody laughed."Why Yugoslavia?" Canidy asked."Your responsibility ends when Fulmar delivers the Dyers to Budapest," Donovansaid."So that's really none of your business, Dick.""The only way to test a pipeline is to run something through it," Canidy said."Is that what this is, another goddamned test? I send Fulmar in there, and hepicks up the Dyers, and then we wait around to see if the pipeline works?Goddamnit!""Just who do you think you're talking to?" David Bruce snapped.Donovan raised his hand to shut him off.L."Fulmar is being sent in, Dick," Donovan said, "because Dyer is so importantto us that Ed Stevens and I agreed it was worth the risk.Page 201ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlBelieve me, if I didn't think the pipeline would work, I would not send Dyeror Fulmar through it." Canidy looked at Donovan and after a moment said,almost formally, "Thank you.""We think it will take Fulmar's presence, his physical presence, to convinceDyer that it will be safe to leave," Stevens said."I don't intend this as acriticism, but I thought I had made that point to you earlier." Canidy nodded."That was before this Yugoslav pipeline came up," Canidy said."Yugoslavia worries me.""Why?" Bruce asked."As I understand it," Canidy said, "there are two major guerrilla operationsin Yugoslavia.One is run by an ex-Royal Yugoslav Army colonel named DragoljubMihajlovic, and the other by a Communist who calls himself Josef Tito.Presumably, we intend to use the colonel for the pipeline, for obviousreasons.But he and Tito are fighting each other.Tito's backed by theRussians, of course.So what happens if the Dyers and Fulmar get grabbed byTito? Or is that what we're really doing here? Seeing if that's what's goingto happen? Another goddamned MacHiavellian test?""I am so interested in learning how you know so much about what's going on inYugoslavia, Canidy," Donovan said, "that I am going to pretend I didn't hearthe rest of what you said.""I've been given disinformation' before around here," Canidy said."Or nottold things I should have been told.""Now, see here, Canidy--" David Bruce spluttered."That has been unfortunately necessary in the past," Donovan said simply."ButI didn't do it, and that's not happening now.""No, sir," Canidy said."Not by you.My mouth ran away with me, and I'm sorry.I apologize.""I should hope so," Bruce said.Donovan shut him off as he had before, by holding his hand up."My question, Canidy," he said, "was the source of your expertise aboutYugoslavia.""I've talked to the people we're dropping in," Canidy said."They naturallypresumed that as the CO of Whitbey House, I had a need to know.""And you pumped them!" Bruce accused."Very enterprising of you," Donovan said."I should have guessed as much."Canidy was really not sure whether it was a sarcastic reprimand or just whatthe words said.Donovan looked at Stevens, then at Canidy."Obviously, Dick," Donovan said, "we are going to use Mihajlovic's forces toprotect the Hungary-Yugoslav pipeline.For the moment at least, I'm confidentthat he can bring our people out safely.But aside from that, I'm afraidyou're going to have to consider the question answered in all the detailPage 202ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlyou're going to get.""Fulmar is going to ask me what will happen when he brings the Dyers toBudapest, " Canidy said." Trust me' is not going to be a satisfactory answerto that question.""Tell him," Donovan said after a moment, "that they will be taken across theborder into Croatia, pass into the hands of Mihajlovic's partisans, who willcarry them through Bosnia-Herzegovina to the coast, where they will be carriedby ship to the island of Vis.Once they get there, they will be picked up by aircraft.""Whose aircraft?""The British have a fairly substantial force, more than a hundred men, onVis," Donovan said."Two of our people are with them.They have furnished us with the airfield dimensions.Have a look at them, thentell Stevens if you think your B-25 has the necessary range and can use theairfield on Vis.If it doesn't, we have been offered space on a Britishsubmarine." Canidy's face registered surprise."We also have people with Mihajlovic and Tito," Donovan said."It wasn'tconsidered necessary that you know, Dick.""I need one more piece of information," Canidy said."Now that Fulmar hascommitted to memory a map of Leeuwarden, Holland, he's going to Budapest.Where in Budapest?" Donovan chuckled."Stevens has that, too," he said."Will you have any trouble getting it to vonHeurten-Mitnitz?""It takes five days to put a piece of paper in his hand," Canidy said [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]