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"Can we have a ith you, Doug?" Emmett asked

"I'rumbled

"This is critical," Brogan said "Please hear us out"

His car was not yet in sight on the drive, so Oates shrugged wearily "I'"

Brogan looked around him and then said softly, "Sa manipulated"

Oates shot him a sarcastic stare "Manipulated, hell He's fallen off his track, and I for one refuse to be a party to his madness

There's le than he let on, and he never did explain the whereabouts of Margolin, Larientleet back to the State Depart a press conference to announce nation

Then I'ton"

"We suspected as on your mind," Emmett said "That's anted to catch you before you went off the deep end"

"What exactly are you trying to tell me?"

Eed "The idea is difficult to put across, but Martin and I believe the President is under some sort ofwellmind control"

Oates wasn't sure he heard right But logic told hiht of a serious allegation

"Controlled by whom?"

"We think the Russians," answered Brogan "But we haven't accumulated all the evidence yet"

"We realize this sounds like science fiction," Emmett explained, "but it appears very real"