Milo Moon: It Never Happened by Derek Haines

Author:Derek Haines [Haines, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: YA, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Spies & Politics, Conspiracies, Political, Suspense, Teen & Young Adult, Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Genetic Engineering
Amazon: B003ICWF1O
Publisher: Derek Haines
Published: 2010-03-17T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 - My Enemy’s Enemy

The president of Switzerland, Rudiger Staheli sat at his desk, stony faced. He had only taken over the rotating presidency a little over six weeks before, and was now confronted with one the greatest dilemmas of his thirty-two year political career. His foreign affairs councillor, Françoise Klausner, was due in ten minutes to discuss her meeting with the US Secretary of State. The meeting in Geneva had been arranged some months before, but now possibly provided an opportunity to start discussions regarding the secret facility beneath CERN. Staheli pondered the options as, Klausner, although an experienced politician was new to the foreign affairs post, he felt a direct approach by himself towards the US President or even the UK Prime Minister may be too forthright under the circumstances.

There was a knock at the office door and his personal secretary showed Françoise Klausner in for their meeting.

‘Good evening, Françoise, please take a seat.’

‘Thank you Rudi. So, where do we go with this?’

‘The Secretary of State is arriving in two days.’

‘Yes, late morning Friday so we’ve got a little bit of time. What do you think?’

‘I was hoping you might have an idea, Rudi,’ Françoise almost half smiled along with her sarcasm.

‘Well, it’s an opportunity to raise the issue. Maybe not directly, but perhaps hinting that we may have information regarding a suspicious facility on our soil. Without referring to who we might think is responsible.’

‘Wouldn’t it be better to go directly to the top?’

‘I really don’t want to do that, Françoise. Not just yet. We’ve got so little information.’

‘But surely if I raise this on Friday, it will end up there anyway. I mean this is dynamite. The sheer mention of human experimentation would get picked up pretty quickly I think.’

‘In a way I suppose you could have a point, but we’ve got to get moving, but slowly, on this. When their first reaction was to start shooting nurses at HUG, these people could be capable of anything. That’s what concerns me. Whoever they are, they now know we have uncovered the facility and will react. But politically, we have to be careful.’

‘But, the main aim must be to find out who’s really running the operation?’

‘Yes. But that’s not going to be easy without cooperation.’

‘From who Rudi?’

‘Well, perhaps the US or UK.’

‘What about France? There was no mention of France in the file we obtained. And they currently hold the EU presidency.’

‘That’s a possibility I suppose.’

‘And who’s to say the facility doesn’t extend to French soil also?’

‘The one benefit of course, is that we could turn this into a European problem and not just a Swiss issue.’

‘It would avoid being politically isolated.’

‘Yes Rudi, and if the Russians, Americans and British do know anything, I’d rather have France and the EU on our side.’

‘But don’t forget that the British are in the EU, Françoise.’

‘Well, that’s always been debatable, hasn’t it Rudi?’

‘Let’s not get into that right now. So, if you approach your French counterpart with this, what

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