Spies (1984) by Richard Ben Sapir

Author:Richard Ben Sapir [Sapir, Richard Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: War
ISBN: 9781504021647
Goodreads: 26120415
Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery Thriller
Published: 1984-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

15

Todd slept over at Sondra’s house that night. She needed someone so badly, she didn’t fully appreciate how much he needed someone too.

He was not at liberty to say whether his investigation had anything to do with the shooting.

“I thought perhaps that was why you might have gone to the party. Remember her talking about how you shouldn’t be investigating the codebooks?”

“I can’t say, Sondra.”

That night they just held each other.

In the morning, the Navy launched its full attack. Admiral William O’Connell, retired, a veteran of the war in the Atlantic, had struck publicly with his theory about submarine warfare and the high tolls.

Nazis in Newport became, in some newspapers, a cell operating out of one of the mansions. No newspaper mentioned that Elizabeth Boswell, who had married Alexander Wheaton after the war, didn’t live there during it. The photographs of the marble palaces were just too appealing. And Mrs. Wheaton in file photos was gorgeous.

Now, television newsmen, when they couldn’t get background shots of the Hickories, stood in front of barred gates through which other mansions could be seen. Their voices intoned tense drama. They talked of shock. They talked of Claus von Bulow’s being convicted of attempting to murder his wife. They began to mention that he might be more German than Danish.

If one listened to the television commentators, one could imagine local police taut with dramatic intensity desperately trying to unearth forty-year-old clues.

File shots of Nazi U-boat commanders grinning from turtleneck shirts were superimposed on flaming tankers. The navy lieutenant commander in charge of the investigation appeared on national television, repeating what retired Admiral O’Connell had said. Old embargoed footage of death on America’s beaches was released.

The Navy thrust was that it had complained several times to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the war and had been reassured by J. Edgar Hoover himself that investigations showed nothing.

“No, I would never suggest that it was an FBI sort of cover-up, just to protect its record,” said the lieutenant commander. He had not been asked that.

On the morning news, Admiral O’Connell, himself a decorated war hero, a veteran of the bloody war in the Atlantic, also did not suggest that it was some sort of FBI cover-up. He did not suggest this on ABC or NBC. His cab had been tied up in New York traffic that morning, so he didn’t have a chance to not suggest it on CBS until the midmorning news.

The FBI did not counterattack immediately. The Orlando Field Office had a tip on who did the shooting. Two Chileans involved in drug smuggling, and there was no way to get hands on them, much less admissible evidence. It was a professional job and it was drug-related.

There was a further complication in that Oliver had not notified the Bureau he had been at a party at Mrs. Wheaton’s. He explained that it had been a routine community relations thing for the Renaissance League, of which Mrs. Wheaton was chairwoman for that year. Yes, he had spoken to her and she did seem to know about the investigation of the codebooks.

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