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"My wife’s father was the sa with the donkey and cart, I gave Esram my pistol, the pistol I had received from Ferenc He had expressed the hope that I kill Kotacek with it, but that was not to be "A gun for Macedonia," I told Esraood use"

"I will treat the donkey with kindness and the gun with respect"

"And here" I gave hioslav bills, even some Austrian notes "I don’t kno e it for you into dinars Give it to Annalya, for the child when it is born Tell her I think of her often Tell her… you will think of things to tell her Tell her I will come back so Kotacek and I were alone in our compartment for most of the way Fortunately ere still alone when he ca

"Where are we?"

" Greece"

"The Greeks are pigs When we are in power-"

I put hi how perfectly it worked

Athens was the end of a long road The Iron Curtain was rusted h it There would be no more stolen cars, no more donkey carts, no more trains In Athens we could obtain passports, and from Athens ould fly directly to Lisbon, and that would be that I was about ready to do sohly exhausted

Kotacek caed to wrestle hi him off as a drunk, but I didn’t want to cart him all over the city that way I put him on a bench and sat down beside him I read a newspaper and waited for hi a newspaper No one bothered me, and I sat there for an hour and a half and read every word in that newspaper before Kotacek finally woke up

I took him in turn to a restaurant, a lavatory, and the home of an Armenian moneylender named Sarkan Besmoyan Sarkan and I had corresponded extensively for h we had never h to ask hiood passport artist, and he evidently felt he kneell enough to oblige ave me an address in the Turkish quarter

I left Kotacek with him "Please do not permit him to leave your house," I said "His faets confused easily I a him back to his friends and family, and if he wanders about harm may come to hireat deal of trouble finding the passport artist First I couldn’t find the street, and then it developed that Sarkan had givenhouse number, 86 instead of 68 I finally found my man, a thin withered Turk with bad teeth and cloudy eyes I told him that Sarkan Besmoyan had sent me, and that I required two American passports

"Impossible," he said "I can let you have one"

"I need two How long a ould there be?"

"An infinite wait Perhaps forever" He ruh a drawer and produced a blank passport "Do you see this? Do you knohat it is?" I did, and said no "This is a reject Do you see? The imperfection in the cover? When blank passports are produced, a certain number are rejected They are destroyed Except that in certain instances they are not destroyed, and instead they find their way to Athens Or to Beirut – there is a gentleood many come to Athens, to me I pay very well for them, you see"

"I see"

"The production of a counterfeit passport is no simple matter You see all of these lines in the paper? The intricate pattern? One cannot very easily draw in all of this One is far ahead of the game when one has a blank passport at one’s disposal Then one types in the necessary information, punctures a false passport nuraph, impresses photo to paper with a duplicate of the Great Seal of the United States – but you do not want to listen to all of these details; that is not what you ca"

"It is also profitable I e five hundred American dollars for such a passport If I had two of them, one thousand dollars But I do not have two of them To be honest, I must say that you are lucky I have one Will British do? I have never been able to obtain blank British passports, but I have several stolen speciraphs and substitute the proper data and a e that all of these passports have no doubt been reported stolen The numbers are thus on file The chance that sorant you, but it exists"

He went on in this vein for soreat deal about the business of a passport forger but not very et back to Lisbon I finally wound up buying two passports, an American one for et the pair for seven hundred fifty Aood chance I’d had to spend the expensewith it

I gave the passport forger ht, and all the rest I told him what entrance and exit visas to mark in the appropriate places I still had my vaccination certificate, and from it I read off my passport number – F-886852