Mission: Impossible Page #4

KITTRIDGE:

(on the tape)

Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man you're

about to see is Aleksander Golitsyn --

The screen winks and shows an image of GOLITSYN, a burly man

in his forties. The image is herky-jerky videotape,

presumably taken from a concealed camera as GOLITSYN walks

down a foreign street.

KITTRIDGE (O.S.)

-- a former KGB Line X officer now

working the international black market

selling intelligence. This morning, we

learned that Golitsyn has stolen one half

of a CIA NOC list, the list of our non-

official cover agents working in Eastern

Europe.

The screen shows an image of what such a list might look

like, code names and other information scrolling by on a

computer screen at high speed.

KITTRIDGE (O.S.)

For security reasons, the NOC list is

divided into two encoded halves.

Golitsyn already has the cryptonym

portion, which contains agent code names

and targeting areas. This portion is

useless unless combined with the second

half -- the true name list that is kept

in the CIA station in our Embassy in Prague.

The Embassy itself comes on screen, a beautiful old building

at the base of the Charles Bridge, which spans the Vltava

River.

KITTRIDGE (O.S.)

We believe Golitsyn plans to steal the

true name list at an Embassy function

tomorrow night. Your mission, should you

decide to accept it, is to obtain

photographic proof of the theft, apprehend

those involved, and return the stolen

list. I don't have to stress the

importance of this matter, Jim. We're

keeping it internally black. Because of

its urgency, I've already sent to Prague

a team selected from your usual group.

Still photographs come on screen, some of which we're already

seen -- JACK KIEFER, CLAIRE and ETHAN.

KITTRIDGE (O.S.)

Ethan Hunt will of course be your point

man, as usual. He's in Kiev; we're

getting word to him now.

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