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morning shots the city

to exhausting

US Consulate Sergeant Wilson

speaking okay fine that'll be fine

Visa SE window two second window down

straight ahead thanks please is this

a this yes of course you just have to

finish it in but I don't understand if I

have in 3 days and stay for another we

come to the information

section

you no

look on your

knes

move hands on your heads hands on your

heads she the

yes tell the Ambassador immedi up hands

up hands up

hello hello

hello Ambassador nille speaking

good Ambassador there is not much time I

will repeat you now the demands I have

already made to Chancellor trebin I want

you to understand very clearly what I'm

going to say so please confirm that you

can hear me I can hear you

V they are now holding as hostages 15

American citizens

eight Germans and three Austrian

Nationals the American Military

authorities at Ramstein Airbase are to

release the two Freedom Fighters they

are holding in their prison prior to

extradition and

trial they are to bring the two Freedom

Fighters here to the American Consulate

they are then to make a plane available

to me and my comrades to fly to freedom

I shall give them one hour to comply

with our demands we permit no bargaining

1 hour more if I do not hear from you by

then Mr Ambassador that our terms have

been

accepted we will begin to execute the

hostages one hostage every 15 minutes so

you

see their fate depends on you all of you

their blood will be on your

hands I repeat and your

hands these are not students or

political dissidents they are

professional

terrorists counselor we Missle

up Mr

Ambassador I don't have to remind you it

is a very fine line between a dramatic

rescue

operation and a catastrophe

Chancellor you know my position I cannot

bargain and I cannot take that

responsibility to move in

there Mr

nille you must negotiate

5 more minutes

yes is so

light never

mind

zla Zara KLA

what is it you

want come with me

he

my got to come

Ross this light

Mr

Ambassador the next American hostage

will be executed in 15 minutes

when when did this

happen about 2 hours ago

Paul Charlie I wish to God I could say

it wasn't true but I can't I think I

just want to be

alone that's all

right okay thank you

the plane containing the terrorists was

flown by two volunteer pilots and landed

at Prague Airport in Czechoslovakia

where the hostages were freed they are

now on Route safely back to Munich the

murdered hostage was identified as Sarah

Kaplan 29 years old she was originally

from the small town of sa Connecticut

but she resided in Washington DC at the

time of her death she was on assignment

in Europe working as a photojournalist

for one of the national news magazines

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my name is Charles

hel Sam Kaplan

I recognize you from your photo

she said you were some kind of Genius

mathematics something like like that I

work with ciphers

ciphers coted

messages I send

them and I get them and I unscramble

them and then I destroy

them he look seductive Leo F the love to

your

change thank

you but even those things computers for

hor

School tell me something

Charlie what are you going to do about

her

apartment her

things I'll take care of it when I get

back to Washington

which one is Sara no one is Sara this

picture was taken before the war

Sara was born after the

war this was taken in

Poland in the mountains near

zop I lost my first wife my first

family two beautiful little

girls in the war in the

camps I thought for a long time the Lost

would kill me

but I survived

oh I created a ritual to keep me

alive to survive the death of people

close to you you neat

ritual ritual for revenge is what I

made I thought about it and planned it

every waking

moment when I got out I spent 3 years

tracking down the doctor who sent him to

the

gas did you find him I found him yes

what what did you do I created one last

ritual with these hands I strangled

him you didn't bring them back from the

dead it brought me back from the dead

guys good evening Mr H evening

hi Charlie morning sweetheart 7:30 on my

second cup of coffee gave myself an

extra half hour in bed this morning I

needed it yesterday was really heavy I

drove out to nymphenburg Castle terrific

exhausting didn't get back till really

late today I'm going to take it easy

pick up some shots around the city do

some Street

interviews by the way my German's

getting pretty good I'll finish this

tape and mail it when I'm out I'll be

able to give you some of the itinerary

changes I got to make a couple of phone

calls to be sure first but Charlie

listen it looks as if I'll be back early

what do you think of that probably 3

days I had a call from the boss himself

woke me up at 1:00 a.m. no apology uh do

you think you could wind the whole thing

up by Friday latest could I you bet I

could so that means that I'll probably

be here until the end of the week and

then fly to Paris I have an interview to

pick up there and then if everything

works out okay I can take an early

flight and I'll be back by uh Wednesday

Thursday believe me Mr hel there's

nothing we can do I can't accept that it

doesn't make any

sense Miss s is dead and they're still

alive understand how you feel I assure

you but you have to take into

consideration certain realities of the

situation the reality is that she was an

American citizen that it was a political

assassination but you still tell me that

nothing can be done the CIA this whole

vast organization of which you are the

head Mr

Breuer is powerless and can do

nothing the CIA is

powerless this particular terrorist

group has very strong ties to the KGB Mr

hel the leader horse Sher was educated

in Moscow their funds and their weapons

come from that particular quarter they

are essentially where are they now

probably Czechoslovakia where we can't

get at

them even if you can't get at them

legally why can't you have some of our

people go in there and wipe them out

before they murder more innocent

people I mean you do that sort of thing

occasionally don't you

we want you to know that you have our

sympathy all the company shares in your

sense of loss now if you'll excuse

me com te

rage you know the way things are done

around here

heler the chain of command you report to

me I report to the deputy director

Central Intelligence the deputy director

reports to the director and the director

reports to

God you don't break that chain hel it's

embarrassing and it makes for

Unnecessary

complications would you have given me

the same answer yes of course I would

it's the only

answer now look I'm taking into account

the fact that you've had a a shock

so

okay Dr Bennett Bennett is a company

psychiatrist he's cleared up to Top

Secret Eyes

Only it might be a good idea for you to

go and see him

oh by the way we thought we'd take you

off big berther give you a rest in the

ciphers just temporarily we've got a

priority one project to put in there so

I thought I'd fix you up with something

a little less

demanding same salary of

course you think of it as a paid

holiday terrorism

way of

life good night good night thanks

Lou they seek refuge in

Czechoslovakia until the next mission

hey

mister this ain't a public library you

know you want it buy it till the next

mission it's funny

till the next

mission ch

time and time again when I put Russ

something think I'm rush just

R oh I'm sorry to bother you what can I

do for you hel that's about using big

birth on my old computer MH I would like

to start working on my book again take

my mind off things

Al bera's got a lot of my combinations I

was used in stored in a memory bank I'd

have to get at them well I'm glad you're

feeling up to it yes but I'll need your

authorization to get in there evenings I

could be there two or three times a week

long asur isn't using it go ahead do you

good to keep your handing let's see a

history of Elizabeth and ciphers

political ciphers and codes ah and I

found something very interesting a uh

effect simil of a letter of Mary Queen

of Scots 1586 she was going to murder

Elizabeth but I want to run that through

big birth to see if I can find any

acrostic aristic or numerical sequences

that I can that sounds fascinating it's

a little bit over my head hel but get to

the more complicated stuff with Bacon's

bilateral ciphers Elizabethan

substitution system well that should be

a real feather on the company's cap when

you get that published I tell you what

I'll have Nora type up the authorization

for you today okay thank you

night good night see you

tomorrow oh

nice I

got for

me

stop

right us stop request additional

untraceable funds for buff project also

for previously agreed assassination I

think stop 1 29 767

11478 from Rhino to Ajax size1 stop

proceed assassination planes identity

stop money deposited Swiss bers per

previous agreement stop send identity

profile M before proceeding f

number five is self-explanatory except

two cold

words Aon stands for Kuwait as in the

previous message and John J Hermes is

code name for a CIA operative a

professional

killer and casino is the code name for

the Prime Minister it's on record that

in front of the Senate investigating

committees the CIA has completely denied

any involvement in these

episodes for

there you

go okay excuse me what time you close

about 9: usually thank

you I'm going to call and give you a

phone number in

Washington if you don't hear from me in

3 months or you hear of my death I want

you to call that number

and and give the man who

answers

this I've worked out a cipher and this

is the key number

o

is

Frank Molen hello my name is Charles hel

I read your article on the post in the

CIA I work for him i' like to talk to

you can you follow

him huh if anything happens to me a man

will call you with the missing key

number and then he can work out the

cipher

okay why me because I don't think you'll

be troubled by Scruples you're

completely

self-serving and you'll get it published

cuz it's the best damn story You' ever

had

hello

yes all right Charlie I've got

Frank

Molen if I have you right you're asking

for something but you're not asking for

it very

gracefully I'm asking for something in a

way you can't say no I have photos of

those and the negatives are in a very

safe place I've taken certain

precautions and if anything happens to

me anything at all copies of those

messages will be immediately released to

the

Press it's about the

terrorists right he wants them

killed

wrong I want to kill him

myself do you realize what'll happen if

the senate committee gets its hands on

those

messages nobody blackmails

me nobody

we buy time we go through the motions

give H anything he asked for he wants to

play of being an agent pack him off to

the farm put him through the

training let them work him until his

ears fall off teach him codes he already

knows codes I don't give a damn what you

do as long as it takes

time I don't want him putting a foot

outside this country till we find those

godamn negatives put every man you've

got on it start with his

apartment it it it let's go pick it up

come on move come on Michaels get it up

let's go come on what's the matter with

you move get over there let's go

I'm Colonel

Anderson in the unlikely event you

haven't already guessed it I'm the

control

officer and next to God a control

officer is the most important person in

the world for an

agent you're being sent into

Czechoslovakia to assassinate three

people what do you know about

Firearms almost nothing

keep

problem keep

problem slide I'm not

holding moving

H then the

into the seat right

Harry leg come on get up get him up get

up Christ we can't waste time

questioning every member of his high

school basketball team that's [ __ ]

Porter it's got to be recent a recent

contact where's he been what's he done

since the captain girl's

death I understand don't care she

doesn't care she's dead I don't know

anything except what I told you

her real name is Gretchen Fran 27 years

old German mother Cuban father she was

on the fringes of the botom mhof group

arrested in 1977 in connection with

several bombings she escaped by jumping

out of a second story

window she surfaced again in the raid on

the consulate Munich Lis bero looks in

his late 20s he's a killer no mistake

about it shot a Turkish policeman in the

face at Point Blank rain

18 months ago in a raid on

Cypress isn't that uh Gretchen yes it's

taken in

Beirut he was working as a bodyguard

from those big shot Palestinian leaders

don't know what she was doing

there next time we hear of him is in the

Munich

raid what about the

leader cost Sher age 33

German spent three formative years at

Patrice lumbe University in

Moscow he's been involved in four

hijackings but this is the first time

he's ever been associated with this kind

of

assassination murdering a hostage gives

him a whole new

dimension at the moment he's probably

one of the most important terrorist

leaders in the world

when you get to Prague you'll have to

find a German girl Gretchen she'll lead

you to horse shreer and lisis bero the

KE Gretchen is a Russian name zenko I'll

get you copies of

those zenko is listed as a cultural at

the Soviet Embassy in prag he's actually

lieutenant colonel in the

KGB the man with him is Anthony lacosh

head of the Czech Counter

Intelligence he knows what zenko they

both belong to some kind of literary

Society but zenko is Gretchen's control

officer he's also her

lover he's an odd bird actually he holds

a degree from Moscow University

Elizabeth in

literature it's up your alley isn't

it sort

of what do you have on them

Eller what makes you think I've got

something on

anyone let me give you some advice

whatever you've got in

them don't lose it

anything nothing keep on

it do you mind if I use your

phone I've had dealings with people like

you

before when was

that 1940

Poland the guest up was searched by

home I'd say those articles made your

position relative to the

CIA pretty

explicit I'm sure that's one of the

reasons heler contacted you

now I'm going to suggest there's a way

for us to do business Mr M we can

arrange to release

certain exclusive material to

you if you play ball and

cooperate it's a cipher but but the key

number is missing

see Mr heler told me that if things

didn't work out for him a man was going

to call me and give me the key

number get

your I've had

enough I'm not going to be here for 6

months training I think we both know

that

I flunk

anyway I want you to get in touch with

whoever is in charge and tell him I went

out now it's not up to me I know I want

you to get in touch with them and tell

them I want to start the

operation

now this plane leaves in 2 hours unless

those negatives are found I can't stop

him tell Anderson to stall ell won't buy

it

I always knew this job would kill me I

don't know why I'm surprised at all

this we can contact Anderson stop them

when they get to

Munich it'll be about midnight our

time we get into Munich about 8:00 a.m.

pick up 6 hours on the flight company

contact will have a special equipped car

there for

us we'll drive into Austria to

Lind just a couple of anonymous

tourists from there at 60 km to the

checkboard Christ why is it taking so

long Nakamura says it's difficult to

crack because it's as simple hell's work

was brilliant you know yes we know RLS

that's what we paid him

for Jim Roy Porter here get me the file

on Sam Kaplan it's got to be Kaplan he

has hel's trust what's a number the old

man wouldn't have to memorize a number

he would never forget Jim around 1942

wasn't he in a concentration

camp aitz

thanks be at the check Border in about

an hour the guide who's going to take

you over he done it 50

times okay

shoot

90124 I'll get Nakamura onto it if we

crack it we'll go ahead there's your key

number and there's your address 255 33rd

Street and there's your name f mol once

I had the key number it only took me a

couple of minutes good work good work

meam our

waitting hel rented a private post

office box in Molton name if that's

where the negatives are we've got them

where's hel now should be somewhere near

the check border

we have well over hour to get to our

crossing point that guide isn't going to

wait around for us

in hell up there in the snow from here

on and we'll be climbing all the

way we first started AC cross through

the intergram tunnel about 2 years ago

it's

risky that whole area is like a damn

goer Colony you get the feeling it could

collapse on you any minute checks weaken

the structure when they blew up the

tunnels on their side but it gets us

through the worst of the Mine Fields in

front of the

wire not that bad it's down here most of

the time walk on the railway ties that

area is most likely Min we're over it

again first Third Road in the Farmland

we go north further in the mountains

till I spot a small Chapel on top of a

hill I wait there till dark the contact

will pick me up there take me to

proc what are those recognition signals

again

I'd

say I must be cruel and he says uh want

to be

kind it's classic never you

Shakespeare gu will be here soon better

get some sleep

get to

Anderson if hell is not across I don't

want him going over that border if he's

already across I don't want him coming

out there's a slip up get to Prague make

for the safe house do you remember the

address 45 kovka behind the museum

Museum fourth floor first door on the

right name plate Joseph fle remember

your training and there's a slight

chance you might out this a

lie like

chance have

fun

thanks go pleas

I very like your

hat

warm and much best to m

you're entirely not welcome

Aus Clipper here the package we're going

to deliver get rid of

it too late it's on its way

much okay

d

so

was

for way

hello

evos no no there

Lop

got you no that is so pap

y po

mashad

for Mo yeah

yeah a made it SK

you

sh

spee foreign spe please please please

yet Kos

here here

what

week

foree Lal

you know right right oh

boy hel's in Anderson blew it he lost

him lost

him get on to Prague contact arus

terminate with extreme prejudice

are you the

American Y vasik is sted I'm his widow

Elizabeth

velikova I must be cruel only to be kind

please could you put that away

thank

you are you hungry do you mind if we

talk while I eat my

supper let me ask you something why are

you working for the

CIA a man came one day to my door and

he offered me a

job just like

that not just like

that my husband was put in prison by the

Communists he was a poet and he wrote

poetry about politics and he read it to

the people in public and the man who

came to see

me told me he died in

prison he brought me a message from him

he wrot it inside

this he had with him when they took him

away the man asked me if I wanted to

revenge and

I it seemed a good idea to me at that

time was

any any

difference

no it didn't bring him back to me but uh

it offers certain

advantages name

one it fills my days with what with fear

it fills my days with fear

is he in there maybe I didn't get your

message until late the woman is inside

came back around 10 the latch just went

out I'll check back with you

so I want to follow renko and he'll lead

me to her and she is renko's mistress

yes and I hope she'll lead me to these

two don't you want to know anything else

no I was instructed to assist you I

wasn't told to asked what when why

besides it is much better in these

matters to be completely impersonal

where should we

start the Russian Embassy I

guess

fine we are lucky that I know the city

like the palm of my hand it's the back

of your hand what you said you know like

the palm of your hand you're supposed to

say like the back of your head

Mr

isn't that what's

inle yes

I

can't it'll get done just don't trust

me you ever tailed followed anybody

before no

did

you

no you're doing pretty good thank you

that was a slice of cake

peace piece of cake that's what I said

come on

what's venko doing at the

University he's one of the guest

speakers lectures about uh William

Shakespeare Francis Bacon and the

bilateral uh I don't I don't know

cyers Bacon's bilateral

Cipher this could be interesting

wenko is a graduate of Moscow University

he's got a degree in Elizabethan

literature I'm writing a book about

Elizabeth and ciphers you me a book A

book really really and what strength I

have my own which is most faint now it

is true I must be here confined by you

or sent to napples let me not since I

have my dukedom got and pardoned the

deceiver dwell in this bare Island by

your

spell what is he trying to

do he's trying to prove that Francis

Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays that's

not true is be hell of a thing if he can

make it

work

of

must or else my project fails which was

to Please Release Me

with your good

hands

Francis positive

Pro

ah and my ending is

despair unless I be relieved by prayer

which pieces

so that it

assaults

Mercy

itself and

freeze

all FS

as you from crimes would pardoned

be let your

Indulgence set me

free for

drop your pistol do as I say I'm fairly

new at

this you've learned pretty fast

you C you're very bright why are you

trying to kill me can't you figure it

out for yourself you're finished your

insurance policy has expired if I don't

kill you someone else

will you couldn't pull that trigger if

your life dependent on it you ran above

your

head go

on

run oh

where were you my God I was looking for

you don't give me that [ __ ] I just had a

nice little meeting in there with a

CIAA it's very neatly

arranged you set me up you disappear I

turn around there's a man there going to

kill me so the plan didn't quite work

out are you accusing me of betraying you

to someone no not someone the CIA that's

the people you are working for too like

hell it is but who are you

then if you are not CIA what are

you c c

they found the negatives so now they're

going to kill me it's as simple as

that we should not stay in my apartment

any

longer we could go to my uncle ludwick's

it would be safe there Elizabeth I'm

sorry you ever got involved with

this

well I am

involved you've told

me I know about you

and about

Sara so it's different

no it's not personal anymore

please come in thank you

this German woman you say she's the

Mistress of the KGB man

Reno for him to be her lover I think it

is necessary for them to be

together be

patient follow him like his shadow he

will lead you to her it is

inevitable are you calling the for no

hold the for carry the day you Circle

J Reno Reno Reno

okay come on if she does not tell you

where they are would you kill her

anyway can

you I don't

know where is horse Trigg

where is Luis

Peto this is a poison capsule it'll

dissolve on contact with your

saliva it induces

coma the other one the white one is an

antidote if taken within 20 minutes

you will

live

now where's horse

Trager where is Luis

P don't let her go I know I'll tell you

Sher is the hotel eropa in kobari the

headquarters is there and botaro is in

prag in hotel

Regina stop stop please don't I told you

where they are botaro and

Scher give it to her give her the

antidote give it to

her give it to her give it to her

F

boyee that's

what did she

say she was almost

unconscious she said it was to see

they know where we

are tell

Sher it's the

CIA

moment

con the CIA you're sure that is what she

said see I'm

sure what makes me puzzle

is if the American is

Cia what was all that business at the

University one CIA man shooting another

absolutely completely puzzles

me I finish work at the restaurant at

5:30 and then I will go to the

hotel my friend starts to work at 6 but

he's always early so I will talk to him

before I come back tonight please be

careful please don't take any risks

please I wish to do this I wish to help

you

um

ludrick the

check oh she's in that apartment I

know and if she she is in there the

American is with her what do you plan to

do watch him and

wait will you keep me

informed of

course I've unfortunately been ordered

back to

Moscow I know I know I know I

know I am sorry you are

leaving we will miss you at the bacon

Society

Sher

Sher for a whole

year after they took him

away I had no idea where he

was I asked questions I wa endlessly to

see

people I wrote letters to him to every

person I could find the name

of I got no

answer I went to see the deputy State

prosecutor he told me he could help

me if I would return the favor I didn't

hesitate not for one

moment but there was nothing I wouldn't

enough time to please him literally

nothing and

then one day I suppose he was getting

tired of me as he was leaving he told me

that my husband

died some days before of

pneumonia the CIA man who came to my

door

he offered me a way to save my

life some of

he has a suite of rooms on the sixth

floor of the hotel and two bodyguards

always watching Russians Martin says he

doesn't move out of his suite without

them they go down with him when he takes

his swim swim in the hotter pool before

it opens for the guests they lock the

pool off but you can see him swimming

there is an underwater window in the

nightclub on the lower flooor of the

hotel chair

yes she it you're

Z

Son yeah

fore funny

whatever pring you

fore

is

Elizabeth

sh

ah good

we shall be in Carlo viar on

time every year I'm going there for the

mud bus and the water

CES to which I attribute the

longevity which I hope to

enjoy how do you know how to speak to me

in

English It's a combination of experience

and uh good guess

work I pride myself on my ability to

recognize the nationality of

people by a habit of care

observation you're an American of course

is this

correct I was at your lecture at the

university the other

day uh

ah at least part of

it you are interested in uh the subject

of beckon versus Shakespeare I am

interested in

ciphers you are a

colleague a visiting Professor perhaps

my card where is it I miss

ah my C please Laos antonine lacos

I've heard of

you well although uh the beacon Society

is my evocation my occupation is also

detection the deciphering of Clues the

uh uncovering of the

uster search for

truth oh yes how does it go for truth

will come too light murder cannot be

head

long William

Shakespeare Francis beon

Hotel

Europa for

for

what

is

drop it

don't try anything funny hel I'd blow

you away in a second and you know

it now listen let me tell you what

you've gotten yourself

into you screwed up a scheme that's

taken years to set

up shre is with us he works for the

company he's

CIA to kill an Amer it was the perfect

cover you've got to understand he had to

kill that girl to lose his credibility

whatever you may think he had no

choice point is sher's done

it he's infiltrated the

terrorists he's one of

them it's too bad she was your

girl but that's

it you and I we've got to

got bargaining you do sh is out there

somewhere he's got that check woman I

tried to talk to him but he thinks it's

a setup takes your a CIA send in and

kill him now you got to tell him the

truth tell him you're on your own on a

stupid little Revenge Mission tell him

that you blackmailed us the whole damn

thing because if you don't he's crazy

enough to kill us

both better kill the woman

first now it's up to

you convince

him well all

live

maybe then

what one step at a

time sh

up

sh listen it's hel he'll talk go tell

him you're not CIA not a

professional tell them about the girl in

Munich about your revenge mission

tell him tell me what lies it's all lies

it was all going according to plan I

killed the girl in Munich according to

plan and you know it why does the CIA

want to kill me the woman of CIA you are

listen you you all CIA why do they want

to kill me tell your [ __ ] ass he want

to kill me damn you damn you that

H the next one's for you h

H I kill the woman

too I kill her

hello damn you h

no

at first we thought you were sent in by

the CIA a professional on a mission

of

assassination I you know I'm

not if you were a professional you would

be dead by

now

so I must help you get across the

border if in return you make public the

part played in all this by yourself

CIA

yes the

stolen

ciphers you think your CIA has recovered

them

yes oh that's

unfortunate they could have been

included in your

book there's another copy

and it's well

hidden and I know the person who can

recover

it I want you to know that I am very

well aware that I am taking a

risk that you may not carry out our

bargain to write that

book but uh it is qualified risk I think

so two Swiss

passports that was an agreement was it

not

yes however if you

fail we will always know where to find

you you joined the game Mr Hera now you

must play by the rules

good

luck thank you

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