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"It's a anin said softly, "how you can take so easily to Western trash"

Prevlov looked up froanin a cool, disdainful stare "Like so e I think like an Alishman, I drive like an Italian, and I live like a Frenchman And do you knohy, Lieutenant?"

Marganin flushed and mumbled nervously "No, sir"

"To know the eneanin The key is to know your enemy better than he knows you, better than he knows himself Then do unto him before he has a chance to do unto you"

"Is that a quote from Comrade New Tshetsky?"

Prevlov shrugged in despair "No, you idiot; I' the Christian Bible" He inhaled and blew a streain "Study the Western ways, my friend If we do not learn from them, then our cause is lost" He turned back to the files "Now then, why are these matters sent to our department?"

"No reason other than that the incident took place on or near a seacoast"

"What do we know about this one?" Prevlov snapped open the next file

"Very little A soldier on guard patrol at the north island of Novaya Ze"

"Hardly grounds for a security panic Novaya Zeuard post, a few fishermen-we have no classified installations within hundreds ofaout to patrol it"

"The West would no doubt feel the saent there"

Prevlov's fingers dru

Finally, he said, "An agent? Nothing therenothing of military interestyet-" He broke off and flicked a switch on his intercoency's ship placements of the last two days"

Marganin's brows lifted "They wouldn't dare send an oceanographic expedition near Novaya Zemlya That's deep within Soviet waters"

"We do not own the Barents Sea," Prevlov said patiently "It is international waters"