Wild Justice (Delta Force Book 3) by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman [Buchman, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B074319W2Y
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
Published: 2017-10-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“What are we doing here again?”

Sofia was amazed that Richie didn’t have every detail about why they were flying back to the States.

Fred Smith opened his mouth and Sofia glared at him until he shut it. He’d taken the men away and told them something that had changed every one of them. The unflappable Kyle had turned grim. Richie—who was always a little clingy—was glued to Melissa’s side. Chad’s fierce silence made him appear truly dangerous despite his Iowa farm boy looks.

And Duane hadn’t met her eyes once since they’d been awoken at dawn and shoved onto this plane. The unmarked Gulfstream business jet was covering the ground from Panama to Washington State in a little over six hours and they were getting close.

“ECHELON,” Sofia explained, “was partly based here in central Washington—out in the Yakima Training Center at a location called the Yakima Research Station.”

She, of course knew about it from her time at the Activity.

“ECHELON was part of the Five Eyes agreement set up in 1941. Us, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada created a cooperative, intelligence-sharing service during World War II. Full access to shared intel, no matter who got what. It was run on our side by FBI, CIA, NSA, and a couple of others,” that she wasn’t authorized to mention because their identities hadn’t been made public by the thief-turned-traitor Snowden.

“Yakima? What did they do here?”

“Gathering signal intelligence from Soviet satellites mostly.”

“Let me guess,” Richie might be the one geeking out, but everyone was listening closely, even Duane who had sat a row back across the aisle by Chad rather than with her. “You’re speaking in past tense. That implies that it has been shut down because Soviet intel is no longer on the satellites, it’s all cyber and Dark Web games now.”

She nodded. That and they’d consolidated the intel gathering at a new, vastly more capable facility in Colorado at the Air Force Space Command. It was rapidly becoming the nation’s Number Two intelligence agency headquarters after Fort Belvoir, Virginia where The Activity was based among more than a dozen others.

“So what are we doing here?” Carla asked suddenly over-loudly as the engine roar eased down.

Sofia’s ears popped as the cabin pressure changed and they began their descent.

“Well!” Richie jumped in before Sofia could speak. Clearly he now had the missing pieces he’d needed. “They may have shut down the Yakima station for ECHELON—you all remember that scene in the second Jason Bourne movie when Landy calls for an ECHELON package to observe Bourn? So cool! Don’t know how I forgot that. And when—”

“Richie,” Melissa called on him to focus.

“Right,” then he plowed his way back to the topic at hand. “But the facilities are still there. Did you know that Venezuela has just two satellites in orbit? The new one is for land, agriculture, mapping—that sort of thing. Max resolution is over two meters and it’s in a fast and low orbit, so it’s no good for following people. But their first satellite, the Simón Bolívar, is up in geosynchronous orbit and totally belongs to SEBIN.

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