Coldest Warrior, The by Paul Vidich

Author:Paul Vidich [Vidich, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

14

West Wing

The call to visit the West Wing came late on Tuesday as Gabriel was leaving his Langley Headquarters office. He thought he misheard his secretary, but she repeated Phillip Treacher’s request to meet. He offered two appointment times the next day, but in the demure manner of an efficient career secretary who wouldn’t permit her boss to slip away, she replied, “Tonight. He wants to see you now.”

Gabriel stopped at his office door, raincoat in hand. His first thought was that he had promised Claire he would be home for dinner.

“You can be there in thirty minutes,” his secretary said. “There isn’t much traffic at this hour. Shall I confirm?”

He closed his eyes against his bad choices. “What’s the subject?”

“She didn’t say.”

“Get me the Mount Kenya files. I need to take a look before I go. And call my wife.”

“What should I tell her?”

“I was called to the White House. She’ll be upset. I would rather you made the call.”

“You’re a coward, Mr. Gabriel,” she said, smiling.

Gabriel was the designated CIA contact who initiated wire transfers requested by the White House. Money came from Saudi banks into a special numbered account Gabriel had set up at Riggs Bank, and when instructed, he wired the funds to numbered accounts in Zurich or Paris. Gabriel wasn’t told who got the money or what it supported, but he knew the White House had found a way to go around the CIA, and he suspected it funded the White House’s pet projects in Africa. These covert operations were off the CIA’s books and invisible to Congress. Gabriel was the ignorant errand boy.

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