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During that operation, according to the after action report of Riley Adams,
the second in command of the CIA team who was somehow able to escape, Jabal
had personally killed Tony as he prepared to carry out his duty. It was a
betrayal the United States would never forget, and it had vaulted Jabal
Talabari into the lime light of the GIR military command. Ultimately, he had
risen to be the Commander in
Chief (CINC) of all GIR forces in the Mid East and had masterminded the
current offensive. It was an offensive that had defeated Saudi Arabia, the
Gulf states, all U.S. forces on the Arabian Peninsula and now Turkey and all
allied forces defending her.
"Mr. President, we are making progress in our Electronic Intercept (ELINT)
capabilities as they relate to the GIR, and specifically as they relate to the
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movements of the GIR CINC there in the Mid East, specifically General
Talabari's command headquarters. We believe that within a few weeks, short of
some type of drastic change on the enemy's part, that we will be able to
predict with some degree of accuracy, his movements."
President Weisskopf respected Director Ballard's professionalism. He knew that
Robert Ballard had a personal axe to grind with Talabari, but he was not
letting effect his reporting, his planning or his assessments.
"Good, Robert. Please continue with that effort and report to us as progress
is made. In connection with that effort, please take into consideration
Operation Swift Eagle.
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"Now, General Stone, we ll have your report followed by Secretary Crowler s.
Let's proceed in that order."
Robert Ballard was relatively new as the Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency. Before his appointment due to the death of the former Director, Mike
Rowley, during the March 2006 attacks on
America by the Chinese, Robert Ballard had run operations for the Agency. Now,
he could scarcely believe what he had just heard from the President. He
scanned the other faces and found John Bowers, the Vice President staring
right back at him, knowingly. Apparently the comment about Operation Swift
Eagle had passed right over the heads of the others& no, no, now he was certain
that he had caught a glance from both Secretary of Defense Crowler during a
pause in his presentation and from General
Stone, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
"They know," he thought. "They know what the President just told me to do."
Operation Swift Eagle was the U.S. Army Air Corp operation during World War II
that had been mounted to track down and kill Admiral Yamamoto of the Imperial
Japanese fleet. It had been a successful operation when the U.S. Navy, as a
result of breaking the Japanese code, had determined the exact time and place
the Admiral would be traveling. On April 18th, 1943, eighteen specially
configured
P-38 long-range interceptors from Henderson air base on Guadalcanal caught up
with Admiral
Yamamoto's G4M Betty bomber and its six fighter aircraft escort over
Bougainvillea Island and shot it down, killing all on board. Now, here in
September of 2007, the President of the United States had just conveyed to his
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency a clear desire to conduct a
similar operation against General Jabal Talabari of the GIR.
It was a task that Robert Ballard would be happy to plan and execute. It was
also a task that would be monumentally difficult to achieve. But Robert
Ballard had just the agent in mind to put together the operation and pull it
off. Trouble was, that individual was currently involved in another operation
of critical importance in South America and there was another one of even
greater importance planned after that one. It would be late October or
November before Ballard could have him prepared for what he had in mind for
Talabari.
That s okay, thought the Director. If we re going to do this, we will just
have to afford the time to do it right and to make sure we use the right
team.
September 4, 2007, 18:40 PST
2 Miles East of Launch Complex 2E
30thAir Wing Operations, 2nd Squadron
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Johnny Chen watched the lines connecting the gantry to the massive Titan IV B
booster sitting on the launch pad as they slowly fell away. Perched atop the
booster was America's latest and most advanced
KH-12 satellite. Johnny knew that this rocket could not be allowed to
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