Extraordinary powers by Joseph Finder

Author:Joseph Finder [Finder, Joseph]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Thrillers, Crime & mystery, Fiction - Espionage, Thriller, Psychological, Espionage, Intrigue, Boston (Mass.), Telepathy
ISBN: 9780345394361
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1995-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

"But why did you need the help of the CIA?"

"Gold is very difficult to move. Extraordinarily difficult to move. And given how carefully I was being watched, I could not have it moved out of the country. My people and I were under constant scrutiny, constant surveillance. And I certainly could not have it liquidated, sold it would be traced back to me in a second."

"And so you two met in Zurich."

"Yes. It was a very complicated procedure. We met with a banker he knew and trusted. He set up an account system to receive the gold. He agreed to my condition, that I be allowed to '." He had all pertinent location data on me deleted from the CIA's data banks."

"But how did Sinclair or the CIA manage to get it out?" "Oh," he said wearily, "there are ways, you know. The same channels that were used to smuggle defectors out of Russia in the old days."

These channels, I knew, included the military courier system, which is protected by the Vienna Convention. This particular method was used to extract several famous defectors from behind the Iron Curtain. I remember hearing gossip about one legendary defector, Oleg Gordievsky, on the Agency rumor grapevine, to the effect that he'd been taken out in a furniture truck. It wasn't true, but at least it was plausible.

He continued: "An entire military aircraft is treated as a diplomatic pouch, allowed to leave the country uninspected. And of course there are sealed trucks. Quite a few methods that the CIA has access to, which we did not, because we were being watched so closely. There were informants everywhere, even among my own personal secretaries."

Something didn't entirely click, however. "But how did Sinclair know he could trust you? How the hell could he be assured you weren't one of the bad guys?" "Because," Orlov said, "of what I offered him."

"Explain."

"Well, he wanted to clean up CIA. He believed it was rotten through and through.

"And I gave him the evidence that it was."

Thirty-SEVEN.

Orlov looked up at the door as if he expected one of his guards to appear. He sighed. "In the early 1980s we finally began to develop the technology to intercept the most sophisticated communications between your CIA headquarters and other government agencies." He sighed again, then gave a perfunctory smile. It was as if he'd told the exact story before.

"The satellite and microwave equipment on the roof of the Soviet embassy in Washington began to pick up a broad range of signals. They confirmed information we had already received from a penetration agent at Langley."

"Which was?"

Another perfunctory smile. I began to wonder whether that was simply the way he smiled, a quick twitch of the mouth, the eyes unchanging, wary.

"What was the CIA's great mission from its founding until, oh, 1991?" I smiled, one case-hardened cynic to another. "To defeat world communism and generally make life hell for you guys."

"Right. Was there ever a time when the Soviet Union was realistically a threat to

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