General Slavin of GRU felt that he should say something. The rocket hadbeen an Army operation and its failure had been laid at the door of GRU.Nikitin knew this perfectly well. As usual MGB was trying to maketrouble for GRU--raking up old history in this manner. 'We asked forthis man to be dealt with by your department, Comrade Colonel,' he saidicily. 'I cannot recall that any action followed our request. If it had,we should not now be having to bother with him.'
'That is good. Let us hope he stays there for the next few weeks. Thatwill mean that he is not engaged on some operation. He will be availableto go after our bait when they get the scent. Meanwhile,' Kronsteen'sdark, pensive eyes continued to examine a particular point on theceiling, 'I have been studying the suitability of centres abroad. I havedecided on Istanbul for the first contact. We have a good apparat there.The Secret Service has only a small station. The head of the station isreported to be a good man. He will be liquidated. The centre isconveniently placed for us, with short lines of communication withBulgaria and the Black Sea. It is relatively far from London. I amworking out details of the point of assassination and the means ofgetting this Bond there, after he has contacted the girl. It will beeither in France or very near it. We have excellent leverage on theFrench press. They will make the most of this kind of story, with itssensational disclosures of sex and espionage. It also remains to bedecided when Granitsky shall enter the picture. These are minor details.We must choose the cameramen and the other operatives and move themquietly into Istanbul. There must be no crowding of our apparat there,no congestion, no unusual activity. We will warn all departments thatwireless traffic with Turkey is to be kept absolutely normal before andduring the operation. We don't want the British interceptors smelling arat. The Cipher Department has agreed that there is no Securityobjection to handing over the outer case of a Spektor machine. That willbe attractive. The machine will go to the Special Devices section. Theywill handle its preparation.'
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'So she sent Kerim the note. Now she wants to know if he can help her.'M paused and sucked thoughtfully at his pipe. 'Of course Kerim's firstreactions were exactly the same as yours, and he fished around lookingfor a trap. But he simply couldn't see what the Russians could gain fromsending this girl over to us. All this time the steamer was gettingfurther and further up the Bosphorus and soon it would be turning tocome back to Istanbul. And the girl got more and more desperate as Kerimwent on trying to break down her story. Then,' M's eyes glittered softlyacross at Bond, 'came the clincher.'
Bond was sold. At once he accepted all M's faith in the girl's story,however crazy it might be. For a Russian to bring them this gift, andtake the appalling risk of bringing it, could only mean an act ofdesperation--of desperate infatuation if you liked. Whether the girl'sstory was true or not, the stakes were too high to turn down the gamble.
Bond had come back and had sat looking at her. He had asked sharp,brutal questions. She had fought desperately back, sticking coldly toher story, knowing that now, if she told him everything, told him forinstance that SMERSH was involved, she would certainly lose him forever. 2ff7e9595c