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something."
    "Lots of people meet men in pubs," said Sue.  At this there was tittering round the table. Sue flushed bright red. "I don't mean me."  The tittering threatened to break into g uffaws.
    "You're all so stupid," flashed Stephen, "Let him get on with it."
    "Well as well as normal identification processes, I'd like to book a session with MAGNIFICAT," said John.
    Sue said, "I don't think that will be possible. We have limited time with h im."
    John persisted. "I think it's important to follow this up. I'd be grateful if you could speak to SIS to see whether we can have 20 minutes with him."
    Rob spoke up. "I would like to tag onto that. One of my students at Imperial College has been behaving oddly and I wondered what MAGNIFICAT's views would be on whether he is likely to be an intelligence officer."
    MAGNIFICAT had been Soviet Military Intelligence's second in command at their Madrid Residency who had been turned by SIS in the late 1970s and who had worked for several years before the Russians began to suspect and he was exfiltrated from Madrid to Lon don. Since that time had filled his time advising British intelligence and their allies as well as making model aeroplanes from balsa wood and wire.
    Sue continued. "As I've said, I don't think it will be possible."
    Stephen turned to her. In a conciliatory tone, he said.  "It is a possible agent contact. We should follow it up. Ring SIS and see if we can book a slot."
    Sue flushed and made a note in her laboured handwriting.
    After all the other desk officers had made their reports, John got up and left with Rob.  When they were back in the Long Room, Rob said, "Silly cow."
    "No comment. I'll see you later. Canteen at noon?"
    "As always. I'll ring the guys to be there."
    John sat down at his desk. In front of him was a sheet of blotting paper; a brown phone with red scramble button on the right. Also on the right was the empty Out Tray. To the left was the full In Tray. In the In Tray was the A4 surveillance report on Vinogradov. He scanned it and put it down. There were various Personal Files and a few yellow GEN files for those contacts not yet identified. There were telephone intercept reports from A2A stamped SECRET mainly detailing the domestic conversations of the Russian Embassy staff and their wives. There were also reports from the A4 static observation post that overlooked the Russian Embassy. These were long lists of times of people entering and leaving with some photographs attached. It didn't look to have anything particularly interesting to tell him. In the pile of paper and files there was also an agent report from K3. K3 was the joint MI5/MI6 section that attempted to recruit Russians in the UK and also ran support agents - businessmen, journalists and any other British citizens who had daily dealings with the Russians. This report was from one of these. John didn't know the identity of the agent who went under the name N2932. The report was typically brief and split into two parts. The first was the factual agent report: " Vladimir Vinogradov has recently taken up post as the replacement of Scientific Attaché  Dmitry Tyomoshenko.  In the first few months he will be picking up Tyomoshekno's agents but will also be under pressure to make his name by recruiting new sources. The second part was the Field Comment - information given by the agent handler, in this case John's friend Philip Neilson, an SIS officer currently with K3. This said: "Tyomoshenko is an identified KGB Line X (scientific intelligence) officer and therefore it is possible that Vinogradov is also KGB Line X as they jealously preserve their slots against other KGB lines, GRU or Foreign Ministry inserting their own staff. Vinogradov was previously in Denmark. This is his first posting to an English speaking country. Danish security have not yet responded to a request for information."
    John pu t the agent report aside and picked up the photograph that Liz from A4 had managed to take