Code Name Bloody Winter by Roger Elwood

Author:Roger Elwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-05-03T00:00:00+00:00

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THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE inner sanctum of the OSS was supposed to be known only to a select group of individuals limited to the president of the United States, the vice-president, as well as William Casey and J. Edgar Hoover and, it was said, the secretaries of state and defense. In fact, the location in the nation’s capital was moved periodically in order to safeguard it from any possible retaliation engineered by Wilhelm Canaris and his network of master spies and saboteurs, men and women with an astounding individual and collective ability to dig out secrets that would have failed discovery by even the best Allied spies.

When Canaris was implicated in the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler at Rastenburg, Germany, the Allies sighed with relief because they correctly assumed that no one else could operate as effectively as Canaris had proven was the case with himself. What no one had counted on, though, was a sense of desperation taking over among the Nazis and caution being replaced by wild acts of covert aggression.

The darkness in the garage was near total as both Bartlett and Hoover pulled their Colts.

Casey had been parked at the opposite end.

“Sir?” Bartlett asked.

“Yes . . . ,” Hoover said, his voice strained.

Wait here, please.”

The FBI director agreed.

There were half a dozen other cars in the garage. Most undoubtedly had been left there overnight for whatever reason.

Bartlett made it to Casey’s car without interference.

The OSS director was on the floor, trying to pull himself up. Dangling over the running board was the radio microphone.

“We’ll have help in minutes,” he groaned, pointing to it.

“Are you shot?” Bartlett asked after helping him to his feet.

“No, just socked with something very hard. I was the one who did the shooting.”

“Did you see what they looked like?”

“I didn’t—just that there were three of them. They headed upstairs. I suspect they would have preferred going for the exit and making it to the street, but you and Hoover were close enough to have gotten in their way.”

“How did they find out where we were located?”

“It’s impossible to say, at least for the moment.”

Bartlett wasn’t sure how to respond to that, and he said so. He wasn’t able to keep his growing apprehension hidden because the implications included the potential of a supremely dangerous secrecy leak.

“I mean, this building is quite large, as you have seen,”

Casey clarified, “and it houses much more than just our little portion of it. Even the FBI has some top secret auxiliary offices here. Scores of people come and go daily. Such sheer numbers represent an enormous potential for leaks, don’t you think? I argued against a structure of this sort, preferring a smaller, more secluded building, one we could more easily control, especially anyone entering or leaving it. But what we all are facing is something that tends to cripple us all, a restrictive budget that is in part manipulated by isolationists who refuse to loosen their death grip on us!”

Casey was right, raising the possibility

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