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FLIGHT OF DECEPTION

Ed Rushia was already in line, at the gate, waiting to board AA 15 when he
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saw Bond and Chi-Chi pass down the long walkway. An unobservant moron
would have noticed them, he thought, for their companions were highly visible

– the very large, silk-suited Chinese with the arms of a gorilla and the smaller
white man whose eyes constantly moved as though looking for trouble. He
acted immediately, heading for the nearest payphone and using an Amex card to
dial the number Bond had contacted so successfully during the night. The usual

response came from Curve’s Deli, and he immediately asked to be patched
through to control.
In fact, the mythical Curve’s Deli was located in a large room some
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seventeen storeys up in an old apartment building on Lexington Avenue. The

floor was bare wood, the walls could have done with several coats of paint
and there was an all-pervading smell of damp. But these things were
overshadowed by one wall which dominated the place. A series of long tables
held a tall bank of sophisticated radio and electronics gear plus a portable

automatic switchboard. There were four high-backed office chairs set at
intervals along the entire working area and one man sat in the centre of this
array while another lay asleep on a camp bed tucked into the opposite corner.
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John Grant, the CIA officer who, with two other agents, had assisted on the
aircraft carrier, was in charge of monitoring what they had dubbed Operation
Curve. This New York electronics room was capable of patching through a
plethora of information between the various protagonists and Grant’s team,
which still sat tight with M’s people on the Nimitz class carrier, now back and

anchored off Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

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