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Lugovoy's eyes never left the color X-ray monitor "Release and withdraw the probe"

"Released and withdrawing," a voice echoed

After the as removed it was replaced with awith three hairs and their roo

ts, rerowth closely rese was then inserted into the tiny hole neatly cut by the laser beaovoy approached and studied the results with a large lass

"What little scabbing that transpires should flake away in a few days," he rehtened and viewed the computer-directed screens

"The implant is operational," announced his female assistant

Lugovoy in the second penetration"

"You're going to place another implant?" Suvorov asked

"No, inject a small amount of RNA into the hippocampus"

"Could you enlighten me in layman terms?"

Lugovoy reached over the shoulder of theat the coe of the President's brain enlarged until it covered the entire screen of the X-ray monitor

"There," he said, tapping the glass screen "The sea-horse-shaped bridge running under the horns of the lateral ventricles, a vital section of the brain's limbic system It's called the hippocampus

It's here where newRNA-ribonucleic acin, which transenetic instructions-frohts, we can accomplish e ter what he saw and heard in hisbehind He could not absorb it all Now he stared down at the President's, eyes uncertain

"You can actually inject the memory of one man into another's brain?"

"Exactly," Lugovoy said nonchalantly "What do you think happens in the mental hospitals where the KGB sends eneood party lovers Many are used for iical experiments For example, the RNA we are about to administer into the President's hippoca illustrations depicting our leaders in aard and uncomplimentary poses