Telefon Page #3

...that he or she was the deceased

American they were to replace.

In areas close to military targets.

You see what a brilliant concept

Telefon was.

cleopatra says there will be snow

from the west. Bang, bang, bang.

Yes.

But then we gave them all

another trigger phrase.

Part of a poem by an American poet,

Robert Frost.

That, coupled with

their originaI Russian name...

...would launch them off

on their individuaI missions.

Each mission virtually a suicide trip.

But they're all ready to die.

That too was planted

in their subconscious.

All it took to activate

was a simple telephone call.

when did you bring them out?

we didn't.

They're still there?

All but Bascom, Hassler, Peters.

- How many more are there?

- Fifty-one left.

Spread across the entire country.

There are only two of these,

listing all the Telefon agents.

GeneraI Strelsky's

and the one in secret documents.

That one is missing.

we now know that Dalchimsky took it.

why would Dalchimsky be setting off

your human time bombs?

could be that the Stalinist lunatic...

...was seeking revenge for their failure

to overthrow us recently...

...or perhaps some maniacaI dedication

to be known...

...among the survivors as the man

who started world war III.

But the reasons why

are no longer important.

All that matters now

is that he must be found and stopped.

why not ask the chairman

to pick up the hotline to the white House?

Simply lay out the problem.

Let the cIA do something constructive

for a change.

An obvious solution, Grigori.

Unfortunately, denied us.

why?

Because the chairman

doesn't know about Telefon.

when he came into office

and detente became the party policy...

...and the agents had been in their place

all those years without being used...

...we didn't think, GeneraI Strelsky and I,

that it was necessary to tell him.

I can't believe you of all people

could get yourself into that kind of position.

I can hardly believe it myself, but I did.

So now I am to step forward

and say, "Send me to America.

I'm the only man for that mission"?

You're not the only man, Grigori.

But all things considered,

you are the most qualified.

But to send just one man-

But you'll be met by our American contact,

one of our very best people.

Grigori, my dear old friend...

...you're completely familiar with America,

having been there so many times already.

In addition, Dalchimsky's never seen you

or your American contact.

An essentiaI factor

in preventing alarming him.

And most important to us,

you have a photographic memory.

But to find him in time...

And what's to stop him

from taking out that book...

...calling all the names in it

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