SIGINT REPORT.

INTERCEPT 345 INIT 2349Z FRQ 836.970 MHZ.

INIT: SUBJECT BRAVO.

RECIP: SUBJECT ECHO.

B: WEVE LOST ANOTHER DELIVERY. [AGITATION]

E: WHAT HAPPENED?.

B: THE CURSED THING DIDNT APPEAR. WHAT DO YOU

THINK? [AGITATION].

E: THEYRE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. I TOLD YOU

THAT. WERE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS.

B: SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO KNOW?.

E: WERE WORKING ON THAT. OUR MAN IS TRAVELING

TO WASHINGTON TO FIND OUT. THERE ARE SOME.

OTHER THINGS HAPPENING ALSO.

B: WHAT? [AGITATION].

E: I PROPOSE WE MEET TOMORROW TO DISCUSS IT.

B: THE REGULAR MEETING IS TUESDAY.

E: THIS IS IMPORTANT, EVERYONE MUST HEAR IT,.

PABLO.

B: CANT YOU TELL ME ANYTHING?

E: THEY ARE CHANGING THE RULES, THE NORTH AMERICANS.

EXACTLY HOW THEY ARE CHANGING THEM.

WE DO NOT YET KNOW.

B: WELL, WHAT ARE WE PAYING THAT CUBAN RENEGADE.

FOR? [AGITATION].

E: HE IS DOING VERY WELL. PERHAPS HE WILL LEARN.

MORE ON HIS TRIP TO WASHINGTON. BUT WHAT WE.

HAVE LEARNED TO THIS POINT WILL BE THE SUBJECT.

OF OUR MEETING.

B: VERY WELL. I WILL SET UP THE MEETING.

E: THANK YOU, PABLO.

END CALL. DISCONNECT SIGNAL. END INTERCEPT.

Whats this agitation business?

I cant put pissed in an official TWX, Antonio pointed out. This ones hot. We have some operational intel here. He pressed the transmit key on his terminal. The signal was addressed to a code-word destinationCAPERwhich was all anyone who worked in the van knew.

Bob Ritter had just left for home, and was only a mile up on the George Washington Parkway when his secure carphone made its distinctive and, to him, irritating noise.