Secrets and Scandals by Carl Douglass

Author:Carl Douglass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publication Consultants

Chapter Eight

Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., 1320 Present: POTUS, DCIA, DDDIA, NSA, CNO, DCIA-CT, and DUSCYBERCOM, Sybil Norcroft and Mac Young, Special Agents of the CIA

Re: Operational plan for mission code name Gideon

The president explained the problem—how to get Vice-Admiral Jennings to board a secure U.S. ship of the line on a pretext that he would believe. He also explained the logistical difficulties.

“Mac and Sybil, can you two communicate quickly enough with Gideon to get the investigative and analysis work done in the next few days?”

It was more than a little weird to have to pretend that she was not Gideon, and that she would be talking to herself shortly.

She answered with a perfectly straight face, “Yes, Mr. President. However, there is no guarantee that we can produce enough evidence for a court, including for a court martial proceeding.”

Mac said what need to be said, “Mr. President, lady and gentlemen, we have an extraordinarily sensitive problem on our hands. Our first imperative must be to secure our nation’s vital secrets. We must place the admiral under arrest and get him to a secure location before he can bolt or dump a load of crucial information into the al Qaeda pipeline. That trumps the need for attention to prissy legal details from the way I see it. I am sure that Special Agent Norcroft agrees.”

She nodded her assent.

“Have you come up with a plausible excuse to get Jennings on board a ship of the line, Adm. Dorrity?”

“Nothing very satisfactory. For one thing, however plausible our excuse may seem, we will have to seclude him from his communications network. He is no dummy. He will catch on as soon as he is unable to get into his network.”

Sybil raised her hand.

“Dr. Norcroft?” President Willets said. “Have an idea?”

“What if we feed Jennings information that is probably not unknown to him already. We can tell him that one of the CIA’s most secret agents is on the ship...”

“The Dwight D. Eisenhower,” Adm. Dorrity said.

“Okay. And we have intel that indicates that there is a mole on the ship about whom there is mounting evidence that he or she is the assassin who murdered our CIA agents, and he or she plans to kill the rogue agent and to obtain the intelligence material the agent is trying to get out to his spymasters. He carries the information in an implanted chip, and we need to get to him before the assassin does. We don’t know what his alias is on board the ship, but he or she is willing to convey the information to an officer of the standing of Adm. Jennings. The information is so secret that only a very senior officer with an Ultra TS/SCI clearance rating with SSBI rating can be allowed to handle it. The security of the admiral’s communication system aboard the ship would help to guarantee the safety of transmission of the data from our agent to the CNO and DCIA. I propose that we sweeten the pot by having SSG-CNO Captain Victor Raylan and DCIA-CT Coxworthy here accompany Jennings.

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