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with an underground resistance group called the Circle of Zion. This is a great opportunity for you two, but make no mistake. Our country’s fate hangs in the balance. Our cousins in Berlin
must
be diverted from joining the Pan-Asian Pact while simultaneously lowering such an alliance’s appeal to Moscow and Beijing. We can’t fabricate the proper situation from outside Germany’s borders, but we
can
induce it within them.”
    Meanwhile, Brando’s eyes have almost bugged out of his head.
    Cyrus stops pacing. Then he knocks our socks off. “ExOps has been ordered to incite a slave revolt inside the Reich. And you’re going to start it.”
    Oh, my God! It’s the job of a lifetime!
    I turn to face my partner. Brando’s mouth has dropped open, and I think he’s stopped breathing.
    CORE MIS-ANGEL-006
    Date: 20 January 1981
    To: All Directors and Operations Coordinators
    From: Office of the Executive Intelligence Chairman
    Subject: Operation ANGEL
    FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
    Mission Parameters
    The goal of Operation ANGEL (Affected Naturalization of Germany’s Enslaved Labor) is to preserve America’s alliance with Greater Germany. It will temporarily destabilize the Reich by instigating a revolt among the slave population in Europe, beginning in England. This rebellion will be supported by America’s clandestine community until our embassy in Berlin persuades Germany to rejoin the North Atlantic Alliance. At that point, our pro-rebellion support will cease.
    Long-term success of the insurgency is undesirable, but to achieve this diplomatic goal, our deployed field agents must develop a convincingly chaotic situation. You will withhold our true purpose from your operatives and direct them as though this uprising is to actually succeed.
    Background
    This situation has been brewing for months. On 3 October of last year, agents of Extreme Operations Division severely damaged a Carbon installation in Zurich. News of this event was not happily received by our opposite numbers in the Reich, but they suppressed the story to maintain Carbon’s minimized media presence.
    Three weeks later, a thermobaric cruise missile launched from a U.S. warship annihilated a terrorist base masquerading as a research facility outside of Riyadh. All the lab personnel were killed, along with fifty members of a visiting German Youth troop. This story was picked up by every news outlet in Greater Germany.
    Four days later, Chancellor Erich Honecker declared he would sever Greater Germany’s alliance with the United States.
    That same day China loudly renewed her demand for the United States to transfer control of Korea and Japan to the Nationalist Republic of China.
    These events occurred during an election year and severely damaged President Reagan’s approval ratings. Democratic challenger Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson made significant gains. Two weeks later Mr. Jackson was elected president.
    Upon taking office last week, President Jackson immediately initiated his combination of liberal domestic programs and aggressive foreign policy. In his first presidential press conference he condemned Greater Germany’s plan to “betray” the North Atlantic Alliance and threatened dire consequences should they follow it through.
    ANGEL is a harbinger of those dire consequences.

05
    Next afternoon, Wednesday, January 21, 1981, 3:46 P.M. EST
    ExOps Training Facility, Maryland, USA
    â€œScarlet, ten left,” Brando’s comm voice says, “and stay down.”
    I dog it ten yards up Main Street, crouched so low I’m almost doubled over. Then I hit the deck. My heavy breathing blows little puffs of dust off the floor. Dirt sticks to my sweat-soaked face. I blink hard to get the salty dust out of my eyes.
    A turret pops out of a stand of plastic bushes on my left and noisily sprays the air above me with rubber ordnance. I slide on my stomach and aim Li’l Bertha at the