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Eents Blackowl and McGrath found deserted is not the same yacht that carried the President and his party to Mount Vernon"

"Son of a bitch!" gasped Mercier

"That's hard to s," said Oates skeptically

E

"About fifteena dense cloud over the river and Mount Vernon, the abduction team transmitted on the Coast Guard's radar frequency and knocked it out of coboat except in this instance it was not a river tug but a yacht identical in every detail to the Eagle-cast off froes, which we found to be empty, and slowly cruised downstrea on a different frequency from the Coast Guard's"

E yacht "When it was fifty yards frole, it shut down its engines and drifted with the current, which was running about one knot Then the abductors-"

"What I'd like to know, is how they got onboard in the first place," Mercier interrupted

Eesture with his hands "We don't know

Our best guess at the alley crew earlier in the day and took their places, using counterfeit Coast Guard identification and orders"

"Please continue your findings," Oates persisted

"Then the abductors on the yacht," Ele to drift silently fro froe sounds were covered by the huus yacht was tied to the pier its crew, probably no le and escaped with the others down river One reent Brock

By the time Polaski conversed with Brock's impersonator, the switch had already beenhiers

Together they drove off and swung on the highway toward Alexandria We know that much by footprints and tire tracks"

Everyone but E to visualize the scene The incredible ti, the ease hich presidential security was breached, the sered everyone

"I can't help but admire the execution," General Metcalf said