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If there's a leak it will come from the presidential staff"

Fawcett s The looseness of the White House staff was open territory for the press corps "They can't spill what they didn't know," he said "Only noill they be waking up to the fact that the man in the helicopter with them isn't the President"

"They'll be well guarded at the farets off the property, and I've seen to it all communications are monitored"

"If a correspondent figures the ga hunt"

"How are the wives taking it?"

"Cooperating a hundred percent," Fawcett answered "The First Lady and Mrs Margolin have volunteered to stay shut up in their bedroo to have a virus"

"What now?" Lucas asked "What else can we do?"

"We wait," Fawcett replied, his voice wooden "We stick it out until we find the President"

"Looks tothe circuits," said Don Miller, Emmett's deputy director of the FBI

Eative remark Within minutes after he had returned to the Bureau's headquarters at Pennsylvania Avenue and Tenth Street he set into ency Action of the Highest Priority to every office in the fifty states and all agents on assignments overseas Next came orders to pull files, records and descriptions on every criminal or terrorist who specialized in abduction

His-cover story to the Bureau's six thousand agents was that the Secret Service had come on evidence of a planned abduction attempt on Secretary of State Oates and other as yet unnaovernment levels

"It ue "We can't take the chance the Secret Service is wrong"

"They've been wrong before," Miller said

"Not on this one"

Miller gave Eiven out dareat secrecy?"